[Dadou]

Originally Posted by A.Wendy

hi,

I've never worked with k-epsilon. sorry. but have you turned off the turbulence and tried a laminar simulation?

Andy

Hi,

no problem, the thing is that I need turbulence for this case. But anyway I'll try something

Thanks for your help

Regards

Mehdi

[A.Wendy]

Originally Posted by Dadou

Hi,

no problem, the thing is that I need turbulence for this case. But anyway I'll try something

Thanks for your help

Regards

Mehdi

hi mehdi,

not for the whole time. only to check if the boundary conditions are ok. so use laminar model first check if the calculation works. if not modify the case until the laminar case works. then try to use the tubulence model

best wishes

andy

[Dadou]

Originally Posted by A.Wendy

hi mehdi,

not for the whole time. only to check if the boundary conditions are ok. so use laminar model first check if the calculation works. if not modify the case until the laminar case works. then try to use the tubulence model

best wishes

andy

Okay I will try it today

[A.Wendy]

hi,

did the laminar computation worked?

Andy

[Dadou]

Originally Posted by A.Wendy

hi,

did the laminar computation worked?

Andy

hi,

Nop it doesn't work and I know why, I have a problem with the thickness of the boundary layer (y+) it has to be around 30 and I have 20000 (yeah I'm way to far) so I have to refine the mesh in the snappyHexMesh but the problem is that when I turn on the snap and lunch snappyHexMesh I don't have the smooth part on paraview. do you know what do I have to change?

I atteched my blockMesh and snappyHexMesh (be carefull it takes time to do it cause I have more the 5 millions cells)

Thank you

Mehdi

[f0208secretx]

Hello all,

I've been playing with the addLayer control and can seem to make it work. The geometry I have is similar to the original post, a big cube with a small cube subtracted inside.

The snappyHexMeshDict of mine looks like

addLayersControls
{
    layers
    {
        "cube.*"
        {
            nSurfaceLayers 3;
        }
    }

    relativeSizes true;
    expansionRatio 1.1;
    finalLayerThickness 0.3;
    minThickness 0.1;
    nGrow 0;
    featureAngle 30;
    slipFeatureAngle 30;
    nRelaxIter 5;
    nSmoothSurfaceNormals 1;
    nSmoothNormals 3;
    nSmoothThickness 10;
    maxFaceThicknessRatio 0.5;
    maxThicknessToMedialRatio 0.3;
    minMedianAxisAngle 90;
    nBufferCellsNoExtrude 0;
    nLayerIter 50;
    nRelaxedIter 20;
    nLayerIter 50;
}

Right now I am really confused about the part shown in red, the name of the layer should be the patch name defined previously? I think it should be the name labeled in blue, correct?

geometry
{
    cube.stl
    {
        type triSurfaceMesh;
        name cube;
    }
    box10x10x10
    {
        type searchableBox;
        min (-5 -5 -5);
        max ( 5  5  5);
    }
};

But I cannot get it to work; been dancing around this problem for some time already... There is no error shown in my log file. I attached the complete dictionary & log file for your reference. Thanks a lot for any advise.


JHW

[Dadou]

Hi JHW,

I am a bit busy right now, but I will look it up this week end and let you know what's wrong (or maybe nothing wrong).

Hope by that time you will have an answer if not I will try my best to respond soon.

Regards,

Dadou

[f0208secretx]

Hi,

Thanks for the offer. Is my understanding about the name of the patch correct? The blue font and the red font should match?


JHW

[Eloise]

Hi JHW,

Look at you boundary file after mesh generation. You'll find there the name of the existing patches in your mesh. Re-use those names to insert your layers.

I hope that helps,
Regards,
Eloïse