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A generalized thermal/dynamic wall function: Part 1

Posted October 14, 2016 at 13:27 by sbaffini (NuTBox)
Updated December 21, 2016 at 10:07 by sbaffini

In a previous post i wrote about an extension of the Reichardt law of the wall to pressure gradient effects. That was derived by assuming the Reichardt profile as a solution for the case without pressure gradient and using integration by parts. In particular, given the the Reichardt function (

is the Von Karman constant):

$f^+\left(y^+\right) = \frac{1}{k}\log\left(1+ky^+\right) +A\left(1-e^{-\frac{y^+}{B}}-\frac{y^+}{B}e^{-\frac{y^+}{C}}\right)$

with:
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pimpleFoam vs simpleFoam vs pisoFoam vs icoFoam?

Posted October 14, 2016 at 12:27 by kindle
Updated October 24, 2016 at 12:37 by kindle

Quite confusing sometime !

But, why is that a problem needs boundary condition for U and p and all the other possible variables?

pisoFoam has relaxation coef while icoFoam does not have this.

Quote:

UEqn.relax();

Quote:

Originally Posted by ata

Hi
icoFoam is transient solver for incompressible, laminar flow of Newtonian fluids.

pimpleFoam is large time-step transient solver for incompressible, flow using the PIMPLE(merged PISO-SIMPLE) algorithm.

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Viscoelastic Fluid Flows using OpenFOAM The solver viscoelasticFluidFoam

Posted October 14, 2016 at 12:27 by kindle

This guy use Openfoam and FENE-P !!!

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Originally Posted by mmasoudian

Dear ata
I appreciate your quick answer

I compiled everything and I changed fvSolutions as you mentioned in forum but when I want to run a case (FENE-P): the error is:

mam@ubuntu:~/OpenFOAM/mam-2.0.0/RUN/tutorials/incompressible/viscoelasticFluidFoam/FENE-P$ viscoelasticFluidFoam
/*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*\
| ========= |

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PyFoam

Posted October 12, 2016 at 12:41 by kindle
Updated October 14, 2016 at 11:03 by kindle

4.8 GUI-Tools

4.8.1 pyFoamDisplayBlockMesh.py

Graphically displays a blockMesh and helps highlights selected blocks and patches. It is not a blockMesh-editor, but it helps to find errors in the order of vertices etc (editing of the blockMesh is still done in a text editor).
This needs an installation of the VTK with Python-bindings. The ways to get this are very different on various systems. But usually you have to compile it from the sources. Sorry.
Since...

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Cylinder Mesh

Posted October 12, 2016 at 11:43 by kindle
Updated October 14, 2016 at 11:04 by kindle

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Originally Posted by guilherme

hi, how do I do a cylinder with blockmesh? Is it necessary do a quarter of a cylinder and stablish simmetry plane in the lateral faces of it or exists a mean of make a entire cylinder? My cylinder is totally wrong I think.

Could anyone posts a simple mesh to I see?

The first guy attaches cylinderMesh.m4. which is for older Openfoam, writing patches differently.

The second attaches cylinderMesh.txt which is the same as first but compatible with Openfoam...

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