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Old   April 6, 2006, 06:09
Default Hi all, I have a problem ru
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Hi all,

I have a problem running sonicTurbFoam.
I created initial fields (U, p, k, epsilon, phi) for a sonicTurbFoam calculation using simpleFoam. But when starting the calculation, the following error occurs:

Starting time loop

Mean and max Courant Numbers = 10.5008 inf
Time = 100.01

diagonal: Solving for rho, Initial residual = 0, Final residual = 0, No Iterations 0
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[2]
[2] --> FOAM FATAL ERROR : LHS and RHS of + have different dimensions
dimensions : [0 2 -1 0 0 0 0] + [1 -1 -1 0 0 0 0]
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[2] From function operator+(const dimensionSet& ds1, const dimensionSet& ds2)
[2] in file dimensionSet/dimensionSet.C at line 357.
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FOAM parallel run aborting

I'm aware that this has something to do with the
calculation of the viscosity. Is there any way to surpass this problem?

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Old   April 6, 2006, 08:40
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Hi Thomas,

you can't use the results from simpleFoam directly in sonicTurbFoam. simpleFoam solves for 'specific pressure' (p/rho) [m^2/s^2], whereas sonicTurbFoam
solves for pressure [kg/(m*s^2)]. So the units don't match and would need to multiply the pressure with density and make sure the dimensions in the resulting Foam-file are correct.
And simpleFoam uses kinematic viscosity. Check what sonicTurbFoam uses.

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Old   April 6, 2006, 10:15
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Hello Markus,

thanks for these hints. I actually had two errors in my setup which prevented sonicTurbFoam from running:
1. as you already pointed out, the dimension of p is different in simpleFoam and sonicTurbFoam
2. I had the face flux field p as starting condition, which also has the wrong dimensions.

Deleting this field and changing the dimensions of p did the trick.

Thanks for your help,

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Old   April 6, 2006, 10:35
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good, but just adjusting the dimensions doesn't give the correct results.
you could modify the existing simpleFoam and create a new volScalarField pRho = p * rho

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