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Old   October 30, 2008, 13:27
Default I'm curious if you can have a
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I'm curious if you can have a cyclic inlet and outlet with the icoFoam solver. I mean, I know you can set the inlet and outlet boundaries as cyclic, but how do you get the fluid to move? Can you set a mass flow rate or pressure gradient? If so, how? I've looked at the channelOodles tutorial case, but haven't figure this out yet.
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Old   October 30, 2008, 15:41
Default You can set up a mean velocity
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You can set up a mean velocity, ubar, instead of mass flow rate or pressure gradient.

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Old   October 31, 2008, 10:43
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You'll have to use a modified version of icoFoam though. See the channeloodles solver as a source of inspiration.
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Old   October 31, 2008, 11:25
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Sounds like more work than it's worth to me right now. I'll likely just deal with a entrance region and take my data farther downstream. Thanks.
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Old   November 5, 2008, 04:04
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You could try the directMapped boundary condition which recycles sampled data (from inside the domain) to the inlet. See the oodles/pitzDailyDirectMapped case.
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Old   November 8, 2008, 05:48
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hi guys

I've tried this in a simulation of a channel flow just adding a constant pressure gradient to the icoFoam solver, so modifing the equations. In this way it is possible to work with a dummy pressure that can be cyclic (0 in steady state).
You can take the icoFoam solver folder in /OpenFOAM/applications/solvers/incompressible/icoFoam
copy it and rename as you wish (i used flatChannel). then rename the icoFoam.c as flatChannel.C and add the pressure gradient term as:

fvVectorMatrix UEqn
(
fvm::ddt(U)
+ fvm::div(phi, U)
- fvm::laplacian(nu,U)
+ dpdx
);

in the createField.H you have to add a term that recall a file inside the directory 0 named dpdx. The expression is the same of the call at the p file so you can just modify it.
Then in the 0 directory you have to create a file dpdx similar to the pressure file (remember that the dimensions are different i.e. [0 1 -2 0 0 0]) and set everywhere it constant

also, you have to change the call to the function icoFoam in the directory of the new solvers (follow the pogrammers guide for a better explanation)

i know that is a mess but it worked fine for me in a channel flow. Any suggestions for easier ways are welcome

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