CFD Online Logo CFD Online URL
www.cfd-online.com
[Sponsors]
Home > Forums > Software User Forums > ANSYS > FLUENT

Very technical question about solving wall boundary layer ...

Register Blogs Members List Search Today's Posts Mark Forums Read

Reply
 
LinkBack Thread Tools Search this Thread Display Modes
Old   April 15, 2011, 10:05
Wink Very technical question about solving wall boundary layer ...
  #1
New Member
 
Join Date: Apr 2011
Posts: 3
Rep Power: 14
jlb001 is on a distinguished road
I am reading the fluent help manual since one day and I don't manage to find a precise answer on the resolution of the boundary layer for FLUENT.

I am using Enhanced wall treatment :
- for KE , I understood, if the mesh is suffisently small (Y+=1) then the 2 layers model will be used. If the mesh is coarse a wall function using :
Kader [168] + White and Cristoph [418] and Huang et al. [147] will be used.
Is it ok ?
- But for kw-SST it become really really unclear :
(chapter 4.4.4. Wall Boundary Conditions for Kw-SST)
"This means that all boundary conditions for wall-function meshes will correspond to the wall function approach, while for the fine meshes, the appropriate low-Reynolds-number boundary conditions will be applied" (this is all right ;-))
and after :Analytical solutions can be given for both the laminar sublayer (eq : 4–118) and the logarithmic region (4–119).
Therefore, a wall treatment can be defined for the w equation, which switches automatically from the viscous sublayer formulation to the wall function, depending on the grid. This blending ..."
Are these equation used for a modeling the boundary layer or are they wall functions ?
I am quite deasapointed because in Chapter :4.13.5.( Enhanced Wall Treatment ω-Equation (EWT-ω)) it is stated :
"the Kw-equation can be integrated through the viscous sublayer without the need for a two-layer approach. This feature can be utilized for a y* -insensitive wall treatment by blending the viscous sublayer formulation and the logarithmic layer formulation based on y*,This formulation is the default for all Kw equation based models."
And finaly in 4.13.4. (Enhanced Wall Treatment ε-Equation (EWT-ε))
"Please note that an alternative blending compared to the Kader-blending is used for the improved near wall treatment for turbulence models based on the w equation, which is the new default near wall treatment."

I do not understand what is the wall function and what are the equations used for modeling (or blending ...) the complete BL ?

If somebody get the point ...

Thanks in Advance


JB
jlb001 is offline   Reply With Quote

Old   April 18, 2011, 04:50
Default
  #2
New Member
 
Join Date: Apr 2011
Posts: 3
Rep Power: 14
jlb001 is on a distinguished road
No idea ???
jlb001 is offline   Reply With Quote

Old   April 19, 2011, 05:09
Default
  #3
Senior Member
 
Raashid Baig
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Bangalore, India
Posts: 135
Rep Power: 15
cfd_newbie is on a distinguished road
Quote:
Originally Posted by jlb001 View Post
I am reading the fluent help manual since one day and I don't manage to find a precise answer on the resolution of the boundary layer for FLUENT.

I am using Enhanced wall treatment :
- for KE , I understood, if the mesh is suffisently small (Y+=1) then the 2 layers model will be used. If the mesh is coarse a wall function using :
Kader [168] + White and Cristoph [418] and Huang et al. [147] will be used.
Is it ok ?
- But for kw-SST it become really really unclear :
(chapter 4.4.4. Wall Boundary Conditions for Kw-SST)
"This means that all boundary conditions for wall-function meshes will correspond to the wall function approach, while for the fine meshes, the appropriate low-Reynolds-number boundary conditions will be applied" (this is all right ;-))
and after :Analytical solutions can be given for both the laminar sublayer (eq : 4–118) and the logarithmic region (4–119).
Therefore, a wall treatment can be defined for the w equation, which switches automatically from the viscous sublayer formulation to the wall function, depending on the grid. This blending ..."
Are these equation used for a modeling the boundary layer or are they wall functions ?
I am quite deasapointed because in Chapter :4.13.5.( Enhanced Wall Treatment ω-Equation (EWT-ω)) it is stated :
"the Kw-equation can be integrated through the viscous sublayer without the need for a two-layer approach. This feature can be utilized for a y* -insensitive wall treatment by blending the viscous sublayer formulation and the logarithmic layer formulation based on y*,This formulation is the default for all Kw equation based models."
And finaly in 4.13.4. (Enhanced Wall Treatment ε-Equation (EWT-ε))
"Please note that an alternative blending compared to the Kader-blending is used for the improved near wall treatment for turbulence models based on the w equation, which is the new default near wall treatment."

I do not understand what is the wall function and what are the equations used for modeling (or blending ...) the complete BL ?

If somebody get the point ...

Thanks in Advance


JB
Can you please simplify as to what is your question. Don't quote FLUENT manual help. Just post your question.
cfd_newbie is offline   Reply With Quote

Old   April 19, 2011, 05:27
Default
  #4
New Member
 
Join Date: Apr 2011
Posts: 3
Rep Power: 14
jlb001 is on a distinguished road
Dear cfd_newbie,

To be simple, my question is just about how Fluent is dealing with wall treatment of Kw-SST models.
When Fluent is using a wall function (if the mesh is not fine enought) what are the equations ?
When FLUENT is using a wall treatment (by modelling), does it solve the NS equations until the wall or is it using a blending function ?

Thanks in advance

JB
jlb001 is offline   Reply With Quote

Old   December 26, 2014, 09:09
Default wall treatment k-w SST in Fluent
  #5
Member
 
Ali.E
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Lisboa
Posts: 83
Rep Power: 15
behest is on a distinguished road
Hello,
Do you understand that how Fluent is dealing with wall treatment of k-w SST model?


Quote:
Originally Posted by jlb001 View Post
Dear cfd_newbie,

To be simple, my question is just about how Fluent is dealing with wall treatment of Kw-SST models.
When Fluent is using a wall function (if the mesh is not fine enought) what are the equations ?
When FLUENT is using a wall treatment (by modelling), does it solve the NS equations until the wall or is it using a blending function ?

Thanks in advance

JB
behest is offline   Reply With Quote

Old   December 27, 2014, 06:18
Default
  #6
Member
 
Anh
Join Date: Sep 2014
Posts: 69
Rep Power: 11
dinhanh is on a distinguished road
Quote:
Originally Posted by behest View Post
Hello,
Do you understand that how Fluent is dealing with wall treatment of k-w SST model?
As I understand, SST k-o model is kind of low Reynolds number, so It can be calculate the viscous sub-layer. So no need two layer approach, hence, this model use blending function if y+ in the range of buffer layer
dinhanh is offline   Reply With Quote

Old   December 27, 2014, 06:56
Default
  #7
Member
 
Ali.E
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Lisboa
Posts: 83
Rep Power: 15
behest is on a distinguished road
Thank you very much for your commend; but I need more details. I need to understand very well for writting the code. please explain better.

In the Fluent Theory guide is written as bellow:
"The wall boundary conditions for the k equation in the k-w models are treated in the same way as the k equation is treated when enhanced wall treatments are used with the k-e models. This means that all boundary conditions for wall-function meshes will correspond to the wall function approach, while for the fine meshes, the appropriate low-Reynolds number boundary conditions will be applied."

It said that Fluent uses enhanced wall function for k. But it is not very clear for me. What do you think about it?
Quote:
Originally Posted by dinhanh View Post
As I understand, SST k-o model is kind of low Reynolds number, so It can be calculate the viscous sub-layer. So no need two layer approach, hence, this model use blending function if y+ in the range of buffer layer
behest is offline   Reply With Quote

Reply

Tags
boundary layer, enhanced wall traitment

Thread Tools Search this Thread
Search this Thread:

Advanced Search
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are Off
Pingbacks are On
Refbacks are On


Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
Velocity blows up suddenly after 30,000+ iterations lordvon OpenFOAM Running, Solving & CFD 15 October 19, 2015 14:52
SLTS+rhoPisoFoam: what is rDeltaT??? nileshjrane OpenFOAM Running, Solving & CFD 4 February 25, 2013 05:13
[snappyHexMesh] Boundary layer generation problems ivan_cozza OpenFOAM Meshing & Mesh Conversion 0 October 6, 2010 14:47
Error while running rhoPisoFoam.. nileshjrane OpenFOAM Running, Solving & CFD 8 August 26, 2010 13:50
Unknown error sivakumar OpenFOAM Pre-Processing 9 September 9, 2008 13:53


All times are GMT -4. The time now is 03:17.