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Old   January 15, 2020, 17:44
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Hi all. I am doing simple CFD simulation flow over spherical body to understand the concept of y+ and boundary layer.

I have a simple question related to log-law layer. I read that for this region y+ value should be between 30 to 300 range. Now, how I would know that for my current simulation y+ value 35 is better or 50 or something higher value?
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Old   January 15, 2020, 18:04
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First, y+ is a fancy coordinate system. Do not confuse this with the more popular wall y+, which specifically refers to the y+ of the cell centroid of the wall adjacent cell. This wall y+ is the y+ of the cell nearest the wall.

The log-layer is indeed the region where the y+ is roughly between 30 and a few hundred. For just about any wall-bounded flow with a boundary layer, you can find this log region no matter if the BL is only a few millimeters thick, a kilometers thick, or millions of kilometers thick.

So given any flowfield, you (in theory) should be able to calculate the y+ field. That means you have already solved your problem (i.e. run your simulation first). You can then go to the cells nearest the wall, and find the y+ of just those cells. Then you can inspect the value if it is 30, 50, 100, or whatever. y+ is determined a posteriori, not a priori.
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Now, how I would know that for my current simulation y+ value 35 is better or 50 or something higher value?

Technically y+ value of 35 should give a good result compared to 50 as the later mesh is a coarser one. But I would advise you to conduct a grid independency test and decide on the mesh.


You can compare your output with the mesh density and decide which mesh to choose. If the output of 35y+ and 50y+ does not vary much, then I advise you to choose to choose the 50y+ mesh as it would reduce the computational time.


And as mentioned by Lucky Tran, the correct y+ value is calculated after a simulation. But you can get an approximate y+ value using your freestream velocity and make a decision from that (because you need some value to work). Once again this y+ value is not the correct one. You have to calculate the y+ from the simulation results and make changes after that.


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First cell y+ in fact is an onset that separates the analytical solution of the field (from 0 to let say 35 or something else) from numerical solution when using a high-Re turbulence model.
In this context selecting the proper lower bound of y+ is more critical since if y+ gets low values (e.g. less than 12) simulation results will be unrealistic and physically meaningless. In other words, in selection of proper y+ value you should be more concerned with minimum acceptable lower bond. while simulation results is not much sensitive to y+ values above that critical value. Moreover, the highest gradients of flow parameters occurs at near-wall region for which a wall function is used and therefore discussing about "better solution" does not make sense specially when a separated region is seen in the flow field.
generally one way to check the first cell y+ value is comparing your results with those calculated by a trusted low-Re turbulence model.
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