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Old   April 8, 2016, 16:11
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Hi Foamers,

I'm using interFoam for simulation of a single bubble motion in liquid container with an extra body force, my boundary conditions are zeroGradient for alpha, fixedFluxPressure for p-rgh and no slip conditon for velocity.
At the moment, I'm struggling with non-physical high velocities near the gas-liquid interface which could cause wrong results and high displacement of the bubble. With a finer mesh, the velocity and displacement decrease slightly but high velocities still here!
The maxCo number is set to 0.1 and the maxAlphaCo number is set to 0.3.

any suggestion and help will be appreciated.

What is the effect of cAlpha that is set to 1.5 (by default) in fvsolution file?!

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Hi Arsalan,

in VOF method that is defined in interFoam we have a extra term that

represent interface compression as below:

cAlpha*Ur*alpha*(1-alpha)

that this term only define in interface.out of interface this term always is zero.

and this term determine compaction of interface.

in small cAlpha diffusion of interface is high and in large one,results are

unphysical.
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Hi Arsalan, depending on the case these velocities can be a result of the poor management of curvature in FOAM or other numerical settings. Please post your whole case to check.

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Hi,


did you solved this problem? I am facing the same problem for a cylinder case. See attached pics. I do not know how to solve it
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