[mineralwater7]

Hi everyone,

Am very newbee to the OpenFoam. And now am looking at the Boundary conditions define.

For velocity in the slip condition, it is defined as below:

wall
{
type maxwellSlipU;
accommondationCoeff 1;
curvature on;
Uwall uniform (0 0 0);
value uniform (0 0 0);
refValue uniform (0 0 0);
}

Please help what is the differences in U wall, value and refValue.
As my understanding, Uwall is the velocity of the wall, value is the initial value of the velocity on the wall, refValue is reference value (from there you can find the absolute value of Uwall and initial velocity)
is my undertanding is correct? It is quite confusing.

Thanks

[piu58]

What is the reason for using maxwellSlipU? I would start at least with a constant value.

[mineralwater7]

This is a sample code I found that using maxwell slip condition on the wall. Trying to understand it

[LuckyTran]

Uwall is the wall velocity. U wall is (0 0 0) if your wall is stationary.
value is the current solution/value, which is more-or-less the slip velocity.

I don't understand the model well enough to understand refValue. It is related to the thermalCreep and curvature options and it looks like it's a calculated variable.

    if (thermalCreep_)
    {
        const volScalarField& vsfT =
            this->db().objectRegistry::lookupObject<volScalarField>(TName_);
        label patchi = this->patch().index();
        const fvPatchScalarField& pT = vsfT.boundaryField()[patchi];
        Field<vector> gradpT(fvc::grad(vsfT)().boundaryField()[patchi]);
        vectorField n(patch().nf());

        refValue() -= 3.0*pnu/(4.0*pT)*transform(I - n*n, gradpT);
    }

    if (curvature_)
    {
        const fvPatchTensorField& ptauMC =
            patch().lookupPatchField<volTensorField, tensor>(tauMCName_);
        vectorField n(patch().nf());

        refValue() -= C1/prho*transform(I - n*n, (n & ptauMC));
    }