[cutmountain]

Hello everybody,

I am working on a simplyfied test case for a moving flap.

I have a stationary zone and a rotating zone and all of the mesh and the simulation seems to works well.

The problem it that watching at the tke seems like that the two zones (stationary and rotating) are not talking each others.

Looking at the velocity fields, epsilon and nut and p the two zones are talking each others but not tke.

Is something that is needed to be activated or something that I am missing?

I add two screen of two different time step on a plane cutting the rotating part for k and U and my BCs for k.

/*--------------------------------*- C++ -*----------------------------------*\
| =========                 |                                                 |
| \\      /  F ield         | OpenFOAM: The Open Source CFD Toolbox           |
|  \\    /   O peration     | Version:  4.0                                   |
|   \\  /    A nd           | Web:      www.OpenFOAM.org                      |
|    \\/     M anipulation  |                                                 |
\*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
FoamFile
{
    version     2.0;
    format      ascii;
    class       volScalarField;
    object      k;
}
// * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * //

dimensions      [0 2 -2 0 0 0 0];

internalField   uniform 0.01;

boundaryField
{
    "rotor|stator"
    {
        type            kqRWallFunction;
        value           $internalField;
    }

    inlet 
    {
        type            fixedValue;
        value           uniform 0.01;
    }

    outlet
    {
        type            zeroGradient;
    }

    "AMI.*"
    {
        type            cyclicAMI;
        value           $internalField;
    }
    defaultFaces
    {
        type            slip;
    }

}

// ************************************************************************* //

Thanks in advance as always,

Edoardo.

[cutmountain]

Is there anybody out there?

[louisgag]

Ciao Edoardo,


Your post made me curious so I tried running a similar tutorial from my OpenFOAM version (foundation's release, build "dev"), and found that k was, at least apparently, properly transmitted across the AMI interface. See my attached snapshot.


The snapshot comes from the mixerVesselAMI tutorial, maybe you could find the difference between that tutorial and your case to understand why this issue happens on your setup.
From what I see it is likely not caused by the k boundary condition file you pasted here....



Kind regards,




-Louis

[cutmountain]

Ciao Louis,

thanks for caring.

The problem is that I've started my case from that tutorial because it seemed to be the closest to mine problem and in that tutorial k seemed to be transmitted across the AMI.

If you have any ideas about this strange behaviour please share it.

[louisgag]

I'm not sure I would know more as I did not have such issues before (I often run without turbulence).
The only further advice I can give is to compare the fvSchemes and fvSolution files... did you change something?