[david]

Hi all

I'm trying to simulate a pump (inlet casing, rotating impeller, diffuser and volute) with OpenFOAM-1.5-dev. The four domains are connected with GGI interfaces. The turbDyMFoam solver is used as it is a transient simulation. The forces acting on the hub, shroud and blades are monitored with the forces functionObject. Unfortunately the pressure forces oscillate with each time step. The attached image shows the pressure forces in y-direction. Rotation axis is the z-axis.


I could reproduce this behaviour in the icoDyMFoam tutorial cases mixerGgi and mixer2D. I tried to use different ddt-Schemes (Euler, backward, CrankNicholson) and tolerances without any improvement. Are there any possibilities to reduce the oscillations?


Thanks in advance

David