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Old   October 8, 2018, 18:40
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Hi
as you may already know when you want to set a Neumann boundary condition in OpenFOAM (like fixed Gradient or mixed boundary condition), it uses a linear two point forward or backward definition of the gradient for solving the related equation.

gradient normal to face = a = \frac{(cellCenter Value  -  faceCenter Value)}{mag(delta)}
where delta is face-center to cell-center vector.

am I right about this? if I am wrong please correct me.

this method which OpenFOAM uses for calculating surface normal gradient is a second order accurate scheme, is there a way to include other points than cell-center and face-center in calculating this gradient and have a higher order more accurate gradient type boundary condition?

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