snappyHexMesh layers part
 

hello!

I'm trying to use snappyhexmesh for an external flow around a ship and I don't really understand how the differents functions in addlayerscontrols work. Can someone explain me how I choose the values for finalLayerThickness, expansionRatio and minThickness? I've searched for posts about that on the forum but maybe missed them, if they already exit can you give me the link?

thank you very much!!

Marine

I have a very high Reynolds, 10^9, and I'd like yplus about 100 wich give me a first mesh size of 1mm (using the online tool y+estimation). I guess I put "minthickness" to this value.
I don't understand why I have to give a value for "finalLayerThickness" if I specify the "minThickness", the "expansionRatio" and the "nsurfaceLayer" I want. Can someone explain me that?
thank you very much.
Marine

Does someone know if the "expansionratio" is the ratio between two successives layers or between the furthest and the closest to the surface?
I tried to change it but my cells always have the same size as the ones on my surface (I defined nsurfacelayer = 10).

The layers are controlled by the last element size (with "last" I mean the one far from the surface, close to the volume cells). You specify its desired size, in terms of ratio with the near volume cell, the expansionRatio, which I think is the ratio between the height of two consecutive layer cells, and all the elements are determined in this way. The minThickness is a quality parameter. If snappy can only build layers so that the relative first element height is below the minThickness value, layer extrusion from that face is disabled.

See the comment in the example snappyHexMeshDict:
As far as I know, there's no way of specifying the height of the near-wall cell, neither absolute nor relative.

Hope this helps,
Francesco

Thank you, I'm having a lot of dificulties with the boundary layer, sometimes I only have BL on the interior of my surface and sometimes only on the borders...
Do you know if it's possible to have a boundary layer on a surface with differents refinement levels? I'm trying with 2 differents levels (but not one on the boundaries and one on the middle), that could be the origin of my problem.

bests

Marine

Yes, it is.
The transition in layers height above the two refinement levels is a bit too fast, but it works for sure.

Hi Franceso,

hope your are doing well! I wonder, if you would recommend to use absolute layer sizes to circumvent the above problem...

Regards!
Fabian

Hi Fabian!
Good point. Depending on the geometry, this is a good solution.

Francesco