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piedycat September 2, 2015 05:46

streamlines pass through no slip walls
 
Hi,
I have a fluid flow of 2 fluid domains separated by a no-slip boundary, when I use the streamtracer filter to plot streamlines originating from one of the inlets the streamlines cross through the no-slip boundary into the adjacent flow? how can this be prevented?
Regards
Mark

al_th September 2, 2015 08:21

I also had this behavior happening to me. In my case, the wall was just a zero thickness interface between two different cavities.

I did not investigate too much about the how and the why, but I would assume that it is due to the mesh dicretization.

As paraview has not been told that you have a wall, but only sees the vector field, if the velocity vector field is pointing to the wall at the boundary cell, I would assume that it just goes straight into it.

You can try refining your mesh at the boundary or, if it is not an option, just don't show the unwanted/unphysical streamlines for visualisation

mujika April 4, 2018 11:33

I got the same issue but with just regular non-slip walls.

There is an option, streamTraces.TerminalSpeed, but didn't make things better for me.

I ended up going through all SeedIDs and ignoring the ones that were too short to make any sense. Not the best solution, because I am sure some of the ones that prematurely ended were included.

All in all, I think we can agree that this shouldn't happen with walls:
"Production of streamlines terminates if a streamline crosses the exterior boundary of the input dataset (ReasonForTermination=1)"


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