Hi

In case i want to oscillate a wall with a frequency f, does anyone know how to create a UDF for the same ? . There is a spring analogy in the website however, i want the oscillation to be somethin like a sine wave kinda.

thanks for ur time and help

Cfdtoy

Hi,

DEFINE_CG_MOTION is very suitable for your issue. If the wall velocity is a function of time, It's very easy to coding . You just define the following in the UDF macro.

vel[0] = sin(2*3.14*f)

Thanks

FJ

Hi there

Thanks for the response. I used the sinusoidal variation, I kinda tend to get "non-positive volume Exist" Message during my simulation using Dynamic Meshes.

Although, I use min and max volumes as the same as given by the Grid Check Function

Does anyone know how to treat the message ?

Thanks

CFDtoy

Hi,

It must be that the time step size is too large to re-mesh. To use small time step size, it will be no problem.

FJ

Hello FJ...

Thanks for the response. I would like to explain my situation a little better. I have an object ( say Diameter 'd') placed in a liquid. This rod ( solid wall around) is protuding inside the domain. Now, the rod is made to move back and forth with an frequency 'f' ..so..if i take a rod placed in the domain and mesh it around, the movement of the wall (rod) would be considered as a case of dynamic meshing isnt it ? Hence, I request help for writing a UDF for the wall movement ..I did look around Fluent and came to know about the Define_CG_Motion but how about Define_Grid_motion ?

If you can ..can you help me with a sample code ?

Thanks

CFDtoy

Hi,

I'll send you cas file and UDF directly.

FJ

Can I also have the file and UDF?

Hi,

The UDF is very simple , see the followings.

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#include "udf.h"

real freq = 1.;

DEFINE_CG_MOTION(osc, dt, vel, omega, time, dtime) {

vel[0] = sin(2*M_PI*freq*time);

}

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This is my personal opinion that UDF for FLUENT MDM function is not so difficult compared with its settings. I mean, I think , most difficult settings is "Define-Dynamic Mesh-Zones". Sometimes this function makes me unhappy!.

FJ