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Bharath Bhushan April 16, 2017 10:50
Quote:
Originally Posted by piu58 (Post 645012)
> total pressure = 6 Bar

I think you mean the pressure difference between inlet and outlet.

You may set this difference and calculate the velocity or set the velocity and calculate the pressure difference.

If you have measured values and the results of your calculation differ, you have a good example to learn how OF needs to be set and which degree of accuracy can be reached with fluid simulations.

Please keep in mind: When simulating incompressible, OF takes the kinematic pressure.
thank you so much. Please can you tell me why time step continuity error increases very rapidly. Because of that solver terminates as floating point error.

piu58 April 16, 2017 14:34
If you need more help we need your model (all files).

Bharath Bhushan April 17, 2017 12:47
https://drive.google.com/drive/folde...00?usp=sharing


https://drive.google.com/drive/folde...00?usp=sharing


thank you for that Mr. Uwe Pilz
Please take a look at the link of google drive where you can get the files I used. The parameters I know are

inlet velocity - 1.46 m/s
inlet static pressure - 6 Bar
fluid - water

and I used the dynamic viscosity of water at room temperature. According to the experiment the outlet velocity should be 20 m/s. I am solving for steady state using kOmega, but kEpsilon is also ok for me.

with that settings I am getting 35 m/s and negative pressure. Don't know why. Please tell me what is the problem.


Cheers
Bharadwaj

piu58 April 17, 2017 13:44
As far as I can see it at a quick view your boundary conditions are contradicting:

You give both pressures AND an inlet velocity. That cannot work. If you give both pressures, the simulation calculates the resulting velocity. If you give a velocity and a reference point for pressure the simulation calculates the pressure difference between inlet and outlet. You cannot have both.

Bharath Bhushan April 17, 2017 13:51
Quote:
Originally Posted by piu58 (Post 645211)
As far as I can see it at a quick view your boundary conditions are contradicting:

You give both pressures AND an inlet velocity. That cannot work. If you give both pressures, the simulation calculates the resulting velocity. If you give a velocity and a reference point for pressure the simulation calculates the pressure difference between inlet and outlet. You cannot have both.


Oh OK OK. thank you for the quick reply. But I tried by giving just velocity, still not getting the velocity of around 20 m/s. Can you set the BC's of all and run the file once, so that it will give correct results. Because I am stuck there. :confused:

piu58 April 18, 2017 01:04
If nobody else answers you have to wait for some days. I am jsut go for a short holiday.

piu58 April 22, 2017 11:00
I looked at your b.c. You used the combination of
Code:
totalPressure
condition on pressure and
Code:
pressureInletOutletVelocity
on velocity, which is thought for situations where pressure and velocity are unknown (mostly used for fluid / gaseous areas).
If you use
Code:
zeroGradient
for U at inlet

and
Code:
fixedValue
/ some value but not zero
for the pressure inlet

your simulation runs.

You get some value of U which corrsponds to the pressure difference.

As I mentioned before you my set a value of U at the inlet instead and give a reference print for the pressure, you get the pressure difference which corrsponds to the velocity selected.

LeeRuns October 10, 2017 08:33
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Originally Posted by piu58 (Post 645211)
As far as I can see it at a quick view your boundary conditions are contradicting:

You give both pressures AND an inlet velocity. That cannot work. If you give both pressures, the simulation calculates the resulting velocity. If you give a velocity and a reference point for pressure the simulation calculates the pressure difference between inlet and outlet. You cannot have both.
Can I give both inlet pressure and inlet velocity? But no outlet conditions? DOF seems like it would be zero.


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