[josip76]

Hey Pete thanks for your reply.

In furtherance to my question I am wondering if I could use a multi-block grid to increase the point spacing ratio outside the boundary layer and therefore reduce the computational time to reach solution without hindering the accuracy of the solution?

I understand that in general a multi-block grid is used to run a case in parallel on a multi-processor system or when there is a tricky portion of the geometry that is better treated with a series of smaller grids rather than one big grid. I was thinking treatment of the boundary layer would fit into the heading of a tricky region that could be treated with a separate smaller grid.

For example in examining a transonic airfoil I found the initial off the wall spacing using y+=1 to be about 4E-6m and then found the total boundary layer height at the trailing edge (using the law of the wake) to be about 0.01257m. So now i’m thinking I can split the mesh into a 2-block grid with the inside block extending 0.1257 meters (i.e. multiplied 0.01257 by 10 just to be certain I have the entire boundary layer in the block) outward from the airfoil and the rate of increase in vertical point spacing being 1.1 in this block and then increasing the point spacing ratio to 1.5 or even 2 in the outside block.

Thanks for any feedback on this

[borhanalhoseini]

Dear Friends,
I have a series of data (velocity and normal distance u, y) and I want to find the u* so that I can find y+ and u+. free stream velocity is 2.7 m/s and characteristic length is 6...does anybody know how I can find these values?
Any help in this respect is highly appreciated

[jyothishkumar]

Hi,

Try to find the value of utou(friction velocity - sqrt(wall shearstress(tou_w)/ro). Once you know these you can easily findout y+ and u+ easily.

regards

Originally Posted by borhanalhoseini

Dear Friends,
I have a series of data (velocity and normal distance u, y) and I want to find the u* so that I can find y+ and u+. free stream velocity is 2.7 m/s and characteristic length is 6...does anybody know how I can find these values?
Any help in this respect is highly appreciated

[borhanalhoseini]

Dear jyothishkumar,
Thanks for your email
I know that I have to find u_taw. Yet I do not know how to find it with these experimental data.
Do you have any idea?
Thanks again,

[derz]

Nice discussion here, thanks guys.

I have a quick question: just realised, I always thought the y+<1 requirement was always referring to the height of the first layer, but some people here are using the actual centroid height of the first layer - i.e. half of the layer height.

Which is correct? I did a whole thesis assuming it was the actual layer height, not the height of the centre of the cell! Lol, maybe I was wrong...luckily I had the yplus down to about 3, so if it was in fact 1.5 all that time, then I still didn't over-resolve the near wall turbulence - I came close though!