CFD Online Logo CFD Online URL
www.cfd-online.com
[Sponsors]
Home > Forums > General Forums > Main CFD Forum

Navier stokes and maxwell slip boundary

Register Blogs Community New Posts Updated Threads Search

Like Tree2Likes

 
 
LinkBack Thread Tools Search this Thread Display Modes
Prev Previous Post   Next Post Next
Old   July 22, 2013, 16:20
Default
  #2
Super Moderator
 
flotus1's Avatar
 
Alex
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Germany
Posts: 3,400
Rep Power: 47
flotus1 has a spectacular aura aboutflotus1 has a spectacular aura about
You have several options for the implementation of a first order Maxwell boundary condition.

The easiest (for finite volumes) would be the way Fluent does it. They obtain the wall-normal gradients for velocity and temperature from finite differences between the values at the wall and a the first cell center.
Then they apply the value calculated from the Maxwell boundary condition to the boundary.
So you need a temporal storage to store the boundary value from the last iteration to use it in the finite differences for the next iteration.

Keep in mind that in doing so, the spatial accuracy of the whole computation is reduced to first order. To prevent this, you could for example evaluate the wall-normal gradient at the wall with a higher order finite difference scheme that uses additional points further away from the wall.

Some kind of under-relaxation might be necessary to keep this kind of BC stable, especially with higher order finite difference schemes for the gradients.
flotus1 is offline   Reply With Quote

 


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



All times are GMT -4. The time now is 10:56.