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Old   October 31, 2014, 06:44
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I'm trying to simulate a problem which involves heat transfer from a very hot gas (plasma) in a wall. Concerning this problem, my solver is basically a merged version of sonicFoam and chtMultiRegionFoam (only the heat transfer part). The plasma has a large radiative flux and the wall isn't a very good heat conductor, so melting and evaporation occurs in reality.

I'm using the compressible::turbulentTemperatureRadCoupledMixed boundary condition that considers heat conduction and radiative heat fluxes through the boundary. This boundary condition always results in a temperature at the patch of 0 K...
I've tried various things, increasing iterations and using relaxation factors but without success.

The temperature will start with a negative (!) value at the patch in the iteration procedure and converge against 0 K in a few steps. The alpha value in the code of the BC will start oscillating with an increasing amplitude.

Using the compressible::turbulentTemperatureCoupledBaffleMix ed BC, the solution will converge, but since the radiation isn't considered this BC is not applicable to my problem.

I would expect the total heat fluxes to be the same on both sides of the patch when converged to satisfy energy conservation.

Any ideas for this?

You can also take a look at my related topic here: http://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/ope...pling-bcs.html
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Old   November 3, 2014, 06:17
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I tracked it down to a numerical problem. I wrote the convergence series as a script in Matlab, so I could play with the parameters and see when I get a converging solution.
Due to the high temperatures in a plasma, there is a very large radiative heat flux (on the order of 1e9 W/m²). Using lower heat fluxes leads to a converging solution, and using smaller cells also converges. However, the cells are already extremely low at the boundary (about 5e-7m), so this will lead to massive performance impacts if I need this cell size.

I also tried underrelaxing, but it doesn't have any (positive) influence on the convergence behavior.

I'm not quite sure yet where exactly the problem comes from, can anyone think of an alternative formulation that might give less numerical problems and converge better?

For reference, here's the Matlab script with example data:
Code:
n = 20;
T0=15000;
Tf0=[293];
Tf1=[293];
T1=293;
kappa0 = 0.05;
kappa1 = 0.4;
delta0 = 1/2e6/4;
delta1 = 1/2.85714e+06/4;
Qr0 = 2.99454e9;
Qr1 = 0;
K0 = kappa0/delta0;
K1 = kappa1/delta1;
QrT0 = [0];
QrT1 = [0];
sum0 = [1];
sum1 = [1];
den0 = [1];
den1 = [1];
relax = 1;
for i=2:n
    QrT0(i) = (Qr0 + Qr1)/Tf0(i-1);
    QrT1(i) = (Qr0 + Qr1)/Tf1(i-1);
    den0(i) = K0-QrT0(i)+K1;
    den1(i) = K0-QrT1(i)+K1;
    Tf0(i) = relax * K1/(K0-QrT0(i)+K1) * T1 + K0/(K0-QrT0(i)+K1) * T0 + (1-relax) * Tf0(i-1);
    Tf1(i) = relax * K0/(K0-QrT1(i)+K1) * T0 + K1/(K0-QrT1(i)+K1) * T1 + (1-relax) * Tf1(i-1);
    sum0(i) = K0/(K0-QrT0(i)+K1) + K1/(K0-QrT0(i)+K1);
    sum1(i) = K0/(K0-QrT1(i)+K1) + K1/(K0-QrT1(i)+K1);
end;
plot(1:n, Tf0, 1:n, Tf1);
% plot(1:n, den0, 1:n, den1);
% plot(1:n, QrT0, 1:n, QrT1);
% plot(1:n, sum0, 1:n, sum1);
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Old   November 3, 2014, 12:05
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I now believe that this is not a numerical problem, but rather a specific convergence range of the iteration series, and there's not much one can do within this formulation.

However, I found that using a nonlinear cell spacing on the wall allows me to perform this calculation with the same amount of cells and without limiting my time step size, so I'm just sacrificing some accuracy further away in the solid, which is perfectly fine for me.

I'm still fighting some weird bug in the code, but it's likely fixable.
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Old   October 14, 2023, 12:12
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Hello, thanks for your kind explanation about Radiation B.C

now I'm working on the Combusion simulation using multiRegionReactingFoam, which is modified from chtmultiRegionFoam to deal with reacting flows.

in my case, the radiative heat flux is quite important, so i found compressible:turbulentemperatureradcoupledmixed Coupled B.C.

but when the emissivity is big (~ 1.0), the radiative heat flux is too high, that cause the simulation diverges. (solid temperature << 70K). also, i'm testing parametric study with variation of emissivty (~ 0.01). it seems quite stable.

i think you already experience this kind of problem. could you give me some advice??
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