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Old   April 17, 2019, 04:04
Default How to add a fine boundary layer
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I was trying to add a boundary layer to my mesh, but from the log file, it seems that the boundary layers were failed to be added.

Background Info:
I have a model with reference length of about 1.64m, and constant inlet air velocity of 12.5m/s. As I would like to use K-epsilon model, I first tried to use a y+ value of 50. By substituting the information into the y+ calculation toolbox, I got a first layer thickness of about 0.001m.

In snappyHexMeshDict, I have the addLayersControls with the following setting:
Code:
addLayersControls
{
    relativeSizes true;
    layers
    {
	"figure.*"
        {
            nSurfaceLayers 15;
        }
    }
    expansionRatio 1.3;
    firstLayerThickness 0.001;
    minThickness 0.001;
    nGrow 5;
    featureAngle 5;
    slipFeatureAngle 20;
    nRelaxIter 5;
    nSmoothSurfaceNormals 1;
    nSmoothNormals 3;
    nSmoothThickness 10;
    maxFaceThicknessRatio 0.5;
    maxThicknessToMedialRatio 0.3;
    minMedianAxisAngle 90;
    nBufferCellsNoExtrude 0;
    nLayerIter 15;
}
And my model in paraview be like:

As shown in the above image, some surface do not have a boundary layer, and the overall quality of mesh also seems not to be good.

Could there be any fix to the mesh? Thanks a lot!

P.S. I have attached the log.snappyHexMesh and snappyHexMeshDict files in case that you need to have a look on it.
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File Type: gz snappyHexMeshDict.gz (3.3 KB, 5 views)
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