2D flow with non zero out-of-plane component
 

Hi foamers!

I'm trying to compute a 2D flow in the (x,y) plane but the trick is that flow has non zero Ux Uy and Uz component. All components are functions of x and y only though.
Does anybody know how I can do such a run ?
The problem is, with "empty" BC to have a 2D case, the Uz component is set to zero by the solver (even though the inflow Uz is non zero)...

What I am currently doing is computing a 3D flow with a few cells in the z direction and with cyclic BC, but this is not computationnally efficient at all, so I am trying to find a way to resolve the system in 2D only.

My suggestion is to write an equation to each component of Ux, Uy, Uz.

Carlos

What do you mean ? Should I write my own solver then ?

Yes! You should write your own solver..

You need something like this.


fvScalarMatrix UxEqn
(
fvm::ddt(rho, Ux)
+ fvm::div(phi,Ux)
+ fvc::grad(p).component(vector::X) // The x component for the gradient term.
);