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Old   October 13, 2009, 13:49
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Hello world.

I'm dealing with a case in which Navier-Stokes and energy equation can be solved one after the other.

I have little experience in manipulating solvers, but I think it's possible to alter the simpleFoam solver for such a case.

So where do I put the energy equation?

As I want to compute temperature after successfully converged Navier-Stokes-Equation I have thought about opening another time-loop and solving the energy equation there.

Something like this:
Code:
   Info<< "\nStarting time loop\n" << endl;

    for (runTime++; !runTime.end(); runTime++)
    {
        Info<< "Time = " << runTime.timeName() << nl << endl;

#       include "readSIMPLEControls.H"
#       include "initConvergenceCheck.H"

        p.storePrevIter();

        // Pressure-velocity SIMPLE corrector
        {
#           include "UEqn.H"
#           include "pEqn.H"
        }

        turbulence->correct();

        runTime.write();

        Info<< "ExecutionTime = " << runTime.elapsedCpuTime() << " s"
            << "  ClockTime = " << runTime.elapsedClockTime() << " s"
            << nl << endl;

#       include "convergenceCheck.H"
    }

#include 'TEqn.H'

    Info<< "End\n" << endl;

    return(0);
TEqn.H will contain the energy equation. So much for the basics of this problem.

Thanks for your ideas. See you.
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Hi Sebastian,

have a look at buoyantSimpleFoam.

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Hi Sebastian,

have a look at buoyantSimpleFoam.

Regards, Markus.
I did and it looks to me that the enthalpy equation is solved inside the brackets with U and p.

So I will put the energy equation inside it too?

Code:
    {
#           include "UEqn.H"
#           include "pEqn.H"
#           include "TEqn.H"
        }
Just to make sure...
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It took some time before I got back to this construction site:

Do you think buoyantSimpleFoam for itself (without chaning anything) will be the right choice for a simple convective heat transfer problem?
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It worked well for me. But you can take out the buoyancy term as well.

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Old   January 25, 2013, 16:05
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Hi Markus and Sebastian,

Why can't we put the TEqn.H out side the SIMPLE loop. I think we need to calculate temperature field after we got corrected velocity field. Is my idea right or wrong? And since simpleFoam calculates turbulent flows I put my Teqn.H as,

{

volScalarField kappaEff
(
"kappaEff",
turbulence->nu()/Pr + turbulence->nut()/Prt
);

fvScalarMatrix TEqn
(
//fvm::ddt(T)
fvm::div(phi, T)
- fvm::laplacian(kappaEff, T)
);

TEqn.relax();

TEqn.solve();

//rhok = 1.0 - beta*(T - TRef);
}

Please correct me if I am wrong. My temperature value fluctuates a lot whenever I used it out side the SIMPLE loop. But in pisoFoam I put it in outside the PISO loop and worked really good.

Please advice me.

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Hi Suranga

I think the (rather old) discussion here was about the time loop not the Simple/pimple loop. Naturally one needs to keep the algorithm for the Navier-Stokes equations intact. You can add whatever equation outside the algorithm to let it resole the pressure-velocity coupling in peace. Of course all equations should be inside the time loop unless you need to solve an equation once.


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