[openfoammaofnepo]

Hi All,

Recently I tried to use the OpenFOAM lagrangian solver and found that we need to specify the item for the cloud properties: parcelBasisType. We have three options for it: fixed, mass and number. I understand that it is related to how we can give the number of the particles for each parcel. I check the source code in InjectionModel.C and found as below:

 switch (parcelBasis_)
    {
        case pbMass:
        {
            scalar volumep = pi/6.0*pow3(diameter);
            scalar volumeTot = massTotal_/rho;

            nP = (volumeFraction*volumeTot + delayedVolume_)/(parcels*volumep);
            break;
        }
        case pbNumber:
        {
            nP = massTotal_/(rho*volumeTotal_);
            break;
        }
        case pbFixed:
        {
            nP = nParticleFixed_;
            break;
        }

For "fixed", it is easy to understand. If we give nParticle=1, then for each parcel we have one particle. However, I do not why for mass and number we need to calculate nP like the above ways. Anybody knows about this? Thanks!

[Himanshu_Shrivastava]

Hello Sir,
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