[mixkats]

Greetings,


as the title says.
Specifically in my case, ideally I would want to change the value of Ta (ambient temperature) in the externalWallHeatFluxTemperature bc, which will take values from a .data timeline file.
Is that plausible?
If not, is there a way?


example:

    potWalls
    {
         type            externalWallHeatFluxTemperature;
  
         mode            coefficient;
  
         Ta              constant 300.0;
         h               constant 5.0;
         thicknessLayers (0.02 0.3 0.02);
         kappaLayers     (54.0 0.04 54.0);
  
         kappaMethod     fluidThermo;
  
         value           $internalField;
    }

[mixkats]

I considered using the timeVaryingUniformFixedValue bc, but I think it's not the one, as I want to simulate the heat loss through a composite wall, where the fluid temperature outside should be changing.

[Yann]

Hi Mixkats,

In the externalWallHeatFluxTemperature header, we can read this :

    The ambient temperature Ta is specified as a Foam::Function1 of time but
    uniform is space.

Since Ta is a "Function1" type, you can define a table to specify the Ta value as a function of time :

        Ta              table
        (
            (0 293)
            (1 303)
            (2 313)
         );

Table should also be able to read the value from a file. I did not try it myself and there might be some differences depending on the version you are using but it should work. Let us know if it solves your problem.


Cheers,
Yann

[mixkats]

Hey Yann, thank you for your fast and enlightening reply.
It work, and I also made it read from the file "Tw.data". Let me mention that this feature of the externalWallHeatFluxTemperature, wasn't available at OF.3.1 or OF.4 , so I had to change to OF.8.


Thanks again Yann!

    potWalls
    {
         type            externalWallHeatFluxTemperature;
  
         mode            coefficient;
 
         Ta         tableFile;
         TaCoeffs
            {
                file                "Tw.data";    // name of data file
                outOfBounds         clamp;       // optional out-of-bounds handling
                interpolationScheme linear;      // optional interpolation method
            }

         h               uniform 5.0;

         thicknessLayers (0.02);//metal sheet of the cooking vessel

         kappaLayers     (14.3);//cooking vessel therm. cond.
  
         kappaMethod     fluidThermo;
  
         value           $internalField;
    }

[Yann]

Thanks for your feedback mixkats. I am glad to know you have been able to sort it out and I hope it will be helpful to other users!



Yann

[mixkats]

Finally, I run the simulation, but unfortunately with the new OF version the velocity fields do not obey some fundamentals of the fluid in the mesh. In the mesh there is air fluidizing sand, which should fluidize in the minimum velocity of 0.18 m/s, from experimental data. Now it can fluidize vigorously even at 0.1 m/s, which is not very true. And unfortunately I'm not in the position to determine the perfect schemes and all that.


Is there maybe a way to insert the table with groovyBc for the specific value of Ta?

[mixkats]

Hello,


so I managed to get the BC running smoothly.
But finally it does not follow reality very much, at least as I would want it to.
The heat flux is appearing the opposite direction from that I want.
The fileTable for Ta gives values to Ta slightly lower than from the fluid in the mesh in each time step, so shouldn't the heat flux flow from the inside to the outside?
Is there a way to resolve this?

    potWalls
    {
         type            externalWallHeatFluxTemperature;
  
         mode            coefficient;
 
         Ta         tableFile;
         TaCoeffs
            {
                file                "Tw.data";    // name of data file
                outOfBounds         clamp;       // optional out-of-bounds handling
                interpolationScheme linear;      // optional interpolation method
            }

         h              uniform 2500;

         thicknessLayers (0.005);

         kappaLayers     (14.3);
  
         kappaMethod     fluidThermo;
  
         value           $internalField;
    }

Is it maybe the type of value I'm using ($internalField)?