[buffi]

Hi,

I'm doing CFD for a wavy channel, using simpleFoam and the k-omega-SST model to solve the velocity field. I'd now like to solve for T, and did some intermediate processing (post-U, pre-T):

For my first attempt at solving T (scalarTransportFoam) I used

div(phi,T) Gauss upwind;

which worked well and converged quickly. However, when switching to Gauss linear, the solution diverged. A colleague suggested to check the Peclet number first, which I calculated with the following code snippet:

    // characteristic length of each cell: cbrt(V)
    volScalarField CLen
    (
      IOobject (
        "CLen",
        runTime.timeName(),
        mesh,
        IOobject::NO_READ,
        IOobject::AUTO_WRITE
      ),
      mesh,
      dimensionedScalar(
        "CLen",
        dimLength,
        0.
      )
    );
    forAll (CLen, i)
    {
      CLen.internalField()[i] = Foam::cbrt(mesh.V()[i]);
    }
    
    // Pe number
    volScalarField Pe
    (
      IOobject (
        "Pe",
        runTime.timeName(),
        mesh,
        IOobject::NO_READ,
        IOobject::AUTO_WRITE
      ),
      mesh,
      dimensionedScalar(
        "Pe",
        dimless,
        0.
      )
    );
    Pe = CLen*mag(U)/(alpha + turbulence->nut()/Prt);

The results are somewhere between 6e-5 and 300. The books say that I'd need Pe < 2 for more accurate schemes.

My main question now is: what can I do to get a usable temperature field? While Pe > 2 does not necessarily mean that the solution will be wrong, I could increase alpha and nu (in order to maintain Pr = 7), but that would mean that I have to increase U or the domain size as well to adjust Re. Wouldn't that just lead to the same problem, but on a different scale?

Another possibility is of course that my code for Pe is just plain wrong. Maybe someone could comment on this; OF's Pe tool just calculates Pe at the boundary, using a different equation.

I can not refine the mesh by a factor of 150, as I already have about 2 million cells.

Regards

[ARTem]

Hello, buffi.

Try to use "limitedLinear 1" for convective fluxes. It will use linear and switch to upwind in areas with big variable value gradients.