[w.andreao]

Hi everyone,

I have an expression that calculates an emission rate that I want to use as boundary condition for an wall as flux in, which is based on the shear stress.

The expressions I`m using is:

friction velocity = (Wall Shear/Density)^0.5 #unit [m s^-1]

kl = 1e-6[m s^-1] + 6.3e-4[s^1.2 m^-1.2] * friction velocity^2.2 #unit[m s^-1]

emission rate = 0.01[kg m^-3] * kl #unit [kg m^-2 s^-1]

But, when I set this last expression in the additional variable flux, an error has occurred:

Non-scalar variable 'Wall Shear' referenced by parameter 'Additional Variable Flux' in object '/FLOW:Flow Analysis 1/DOMAINefault Domain/BOUNDARY:interface/BOUNDARY CONDITIONS/ADDITIONAL VARIABLE:Concentration'.
Non-scalars are only allowed as arguments to integrated quantity functions.

I tried to simulate anyway, but in the calculation of my additional variable the program crashes.
Do you know how can I solve this problem?

I can input the values of shear stress from other simulation using initialize profile data. But I could not find a way to use these values in the expression.

[ghorrocks]

Two comments:

* Does your equation work if you use the Wall Shear X components? Then you will have three equations for each XYZ direction.

* I am not sure how well CFX can handle units with non-integer exponents. Most people do this in CFX by making the variables unitless so then you can use non integer exponents with no issues with units.

[w.andreao]

Yes, CFX-Pre works with the wall shear components. I wrote the shear stress as (Wall Shear X^2 + Wall Shear Y^2 + Wall Shear Z^2)^0.5

Thank you!!