Flow through porous media

marango · June 28, 2010, 11:40

Hello everybody,

I'm a newbie in OpenFOAM and have some problems with the implementation in OpenFOAM. As you can see in the title I'm examing flow through porous media using a new approach.

Similar to the Darcy-Forchheimer-Equation I want to add a new term to rhs of the incompressible Navier-Stokes-Equation. As a basis I use the simple-solver in OpenFOAM. Now I'd like to change the implemented differential equation. The rhs looks in x-direction as follows:

... = dp/dx - a* u_x - b* (u_x)² .

( a,b - scalar values)
I tried a lot to implement it. But certainly I don't know the right commands. Can anybody help me?

Many thanks in advance!

herbert · June 28, 2010, 11:46

Hi marango,

you don't have to do anything on your own. Please have a look on rhoPorousSimpleFoam and its tutorials. This is a compressible solver, but you can use nearly the same commands for incompressible solvers.

Regards,
Stefan

marango · June 28, 2010, 13:15

Thanks, Stefan, for your instant answer.

I already used the rhoPorousSimpleFoam-solver and implemented an incompressible version of this solver. Unfortunately the results were completely wrong.

So I use a new approach, which also changes the lhs of the NSE. This is working right, but only the rhs makes problems.

I also considered to use some commands from rhoPorousSimpleFoam, but either I couldn't find out what this command actually does or the mathematical background doesn't suite to my approach.

June 28, 2010, 11:40	Flow through porous media	#1
marango New Member Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Germany Posts: 13 Rep Power: 15	Hello everybody, I'm a newbie in OpenFOAM and have some problems with the implementation in OpenFOAM. As you can see in the title I'm examing flow through porous media using a new approach. Similar to the Darcy-Forchheimer-Equation I want to add a new term to rhs of the incompressible Navier-Stokes-Equation. As a basis I use the simple-solver in OpenFOAM. Now I'd like to change the implemented differential equation. The rhs looks in x-direction as follows: ... = dp/dx - a* u_x - b* (u_x)² . ( a,b - scalar values) I tried a lot to implement it. But certainly I don't know the right commands. Can anybody help me? Many thanks in advance!

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June 28, 2010, 11:46		#2
herbert Senior Member Stefan Herbert Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Darmstadt, Germany Posts: 129 Rep Power: 17	Hi marango, you don't have to do anything on your own. Please have a look on rhoPorousSimpleFoam and its tutorials. This is a compressible solver, but you can use nearly the same commands for incompressible solvers. Regards, Stefan

June 28, 2010, 13:15		#3
marango New Member Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Germany Posts: 13 Rep Power: 15	Thanks, Stefan, for your instant answer. I already used the rhoPorousSimpleFoam-solver and implemented an incompressible version of this solver. Unfortunately the results were completely wrong. So I use a new approach, which also changes the lhs of the NSE. This is working right, but only the rhs makes problems. I also considered to use some commands from rhoPorousSimpleFoam, but either I couldn't find out what this command actually does or the mathematical background doesn't suite to my approach.