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Old   November 15, 2015, 07:45
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Hi everyone,

I have some cases with straight, coaxial pipes where I would like to have swirl at the inlet.
In the incompressible/simpleFoam tutorials I found this inlet condition, that is supposed to create swirl.
Code:
    type            codedFixedValue;
        redirectType    swirl;

        code
        #{
            const vector axis(0, 0, 1.5);

            vectorField v(2.0*this->patch().Cf() ^ axis);
            v.replace(vector::Z, -1);
            operator==(v);
        #};
        value           $internalField;
I used this code and it works quite fine for me. I have a magnitude velocity of 1 m/s as wished.

Only the swirl is strange. Instead 1.5 m/s the absolute velocity maximal is only 0.0115 m/s.

I would like to understand the definition of the 1.5 m/s which are obviously not 1.5 m/s.

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Old   November 18, 2015, 06:13
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Hi,

By try and error, I found it my self.

Code:
 {
    type            codedFixedValue;
        redirectType    swirl;

        code
        #{
            const vector axis(0, 0, 1);            // Axis of rotation

            vectorField v = 20.0*this->patch().Cf() ^ axis;    // Angular velocity in rad/s
            v.replace(vector::Z, -1);                                    // Velocity of mainflow
            operator==(v);
        #};
        value           $internalField;
     }
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Old   March 12, 2022, 00:58
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Thank you Gerrit for sharing what you figured out.
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