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Old   June 4, 2013, 08:53
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Hi all!

I'm trying to apply, as BC, a parabolic velocity profile at the inlet of my problem (a pipe) using groovyBC (from swak4foam).
It works, in the sense that I have a parabolic profile, but:

I would like to have velocity values (only in x direction) between 0 and 2
instead:
I obtain a profile going from -0.11924 (negative!!) to 1.993 , looking only Ux in paraview,
and from 1.929e-5 to 1.993 considering the Umagnitude. (see attached pictures)

I'm worried about the negative value overall. Do you have any idea why I obtain these results instead of what I expected (zero?!

Here how I applied the condition:

Code:
    {
        type			groovyBC;
	value			uniform (1 0 0);
        variables		"Vm=2;yp=pos().y;zp=pos().z+0.005;h=-max(zp);a=-Vm/(h*h);b=Vm;";
	fractionExpression	"1"; 
        valueExpression		"vector(a*((yp*yp)+(zp*zp))+b,0,0)";
    }
I used the expression for a poiseuille flow ( V=Vm*(1-(r/R)^2) ).
I defined zp=pos().z+0.005 because z interval is [-0.0075 : -0.0025].


Thank you in advance!
Claudio
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Old   June 4, 2013, 14:10
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Hi all!

I'm trying to apply, as BC, a parabolic velocity profile at the inlet of my problem (a pipe) using groovyBC (from swak4foam).
It works, in the sense that I have a parabolic profile, but:

I would like to have velocity values (only in x direction) between 0 and 2
instead:
I obtain a profile going from -0.11924 (negative!!) to 1.993 , looking only Ux in paraview,
and from 1.929e-5 to 1.993 considering the Umagnitude. (see attached pictures)

I'm worried about the negative value overall. Do you have any idea why I obtain these results instead of what I expected (zero?!

Here how I applied the condition:

Code:
    {
        type			groovyBC;
	value			uniform (1 0 0);
        variables		"Vm=2;yp=pos().y;zp=pos().z+0.005;h=-max(zp);a=-Vm/(h*h);b=Vm;";
	fractionExpression	"1"; 
        valueExpression		"vector(a*((yp*yp)+(zp*zp))+b,0,0)";
    }
I used the expression for a poiseuille flow ( V=Vm*(1-(r/R)^2) ).
I defined zp=pos().z+0.005 because z interval is [-0.0075 : -0.0025].


Thank you in advance!
Claudio
At first: never use point-values when claiming "it is that way". The only way you see the real values are cell values. Point values are paraview interpolating them and what you see might (doesn't have to) be an artefact of the interpolation. For checking boundary conditions it is even better to not import the internalMesh but only the patch in question (both readers support this) and USE THE CELL VALUE

The max not hitting 2 is OK: if the peak of the parabola doesn't "hit" a face-center then you will get a slightly lower value. The "+0.005"-trick can be avoided. Use max(pts().z) to get the maximum of the vertices of the patch. Get the minimum the same way (see how it is done in the pulsating pitzDaily).
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Old   June 5, 2013, 06:41
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Hi Bernhard,
thank you for your quick answer!

I tried to do what you said, and now it works!
I mean:

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For checking boundary conditions it is even better to not import the internalMesh but only the patch in question (both readers support this) and USE THE CELL VALUE
I was yet looking to the patch and not to the internalMesh; and using the cell value, it seems the same (look the attached pictures called "old").


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The "+0.005"-trick can be avoided. Use max(pts().z) to get the maximum of the vertices of the patch. Get the minimum the same way (see how it is done in the pulsating pitzDaily).
I modified the "trick" in this way:

Code:
    {
        type			groovyBC;
	value			uniform (1 0 0);
        variables		"Vm=2;yp=pos().y;zp=pos().z+0.005;h=-max(pts().z);a=-Vm/(h*h);b=Vm;";
	fractionExpression	"1"; 
        valueExpression		"vector(a*((yp*yp)+(zp*zp))+b,0,0)";
    }
and now it works (see the "new" pict), even if I didn't understand exactly why!
If you could explain it to me someway it could be usefull!

Thank you very much!
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Old   June 18, 2013, 10:34
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I modified the "trick" in this way:

Code:
    {
        type            groovyBC;
    value            uniform (1 0 0);
        variables        "Vm=2;yp=pos().y;zp=pos().z+0.005;h=-max(pts().z);a=-Vm/(h*h);b=Vm;";
    fractionExpression    "1"; 
        valueExpression        "vector(a*((yp*yp)+(zp*zp))+b,0,0)";
    }
and now it works (see the "new" pict), even if I didn't understand exactly why!
If you could explain it to me someway it could be usefull!

Thank you very much!
I think what Bernhard meant by avoiding the "+0.005"-trick is that you can acquire the the min and max position of the patch and and use them to calculate the offsets from the origin. This way you don't have to worry where your patch is positioned but only in which plane (e. g. XZ) it is located.

I tried the same but wanted to achieve a fixed volumetric flow rate. I post this here, maybe someone can make use of it. If somebody has a better solution I would be glad to hear it.

First I obtain the list of face centres for the x and z coordinate (xp, zp) corrected by the offset between the centre of the pipe inlet and the origin. This way the maximum value is at the centre of the inlet patch. For the parabolic profile (para) I used the same function Claudio used. What I call normalizedFlux is the resulting flux for a parabola with a maximum velocity of 1m/s. The ratio between my desired flux and the normalizedFlux is then used in the valueExpression along with the parabolic profile. This results in the same flux as for the flowRateInletVelocity boundary condition with a uniform value.

Code:
    inflow
    {
        //type            flowRateInletVelocity;
        //volumetricFlowRate 0.000583333;
        //value           uniform (0 0 0);
        type            groovyBC;
        variables (
            "flux=-0.000583333;"
            "minX=min(pts().x);"
            "maxX=max(pts().x);"
            "minZ=min(pts().z);"
            "maxZ=max(pts().z);"
            "r=mag((maxZ-minZ)/2.0);"
            "xOffset=minX+r;"
            "zOffset=minZ+r;"
            "xp=pos().x-xOffset;"
            "zp=pos().z-zOffset;"
            "para=1-((xp*xp)+(zp*zp))/pow(r,2);"
            "normalizedFlux=sum(para*area());"
            "ratio=flux/normalizedFlux;"
        );
        valueExpression "vector(0,ratio*para,0)";
        value           uniform (0 1 0);
    }
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Dear All,

I am trying to do the same trick, using the coded BC instead of using swak4Foam, since I can't compile it on the machine where I have to launch my simulations.

Do you know how I can fix this?

I tried something like
Code:
    movingWall
	{
		type codedFixedValue; 
		value uniform (0 -2 0); 
		redirectType parabolicInlet; 
		code 
		#{
			scalar U_0 = 2;
			scalar a = 0;
			scalar yp = 0;
			scalar zp = 0;
			fixedValueFvPatchVectorField myPatch(*this);
			forAll(this->patch().Cf(),i)
			{
				a = U_0 / (0.5*0.5);
				yp = pos().y;
				zp = pos().z+0.005;
				myPatch=vector(0,-2*a,0);
			}
			operator==(myPatch);
		#};

	}
but it does not work properly, since it "does not like" the lines where I evaluate yp and zp.

Could you help, please?

Thanks,
Samuele
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Dear All,

I am trying to do the same trick, using the coded BC instead of using swak4Foam, since I can't compile it on the machine where I have to launch my simulations.

Do you know how I can fix this?

I tried something like
Code:
    movingWall
	{
		type codedFixedValue; 
		value uniform (0 -2 0); 
		redirectType parabolicInlet; 
		code 
		#{
			scalar U_0 = 2;
			scalar a = 0;
			scalar yp = 0;
			scalar zp = 0;
			fixedValueFvPatchVectorField myPatch(*this);
			forAll(this->patch().Cf(),i)
			{
				a = U_0 / (0.5*0.5);
				yp = pos().y;
				zp = pos().z+0.005;
				myPatch=vector(0,-2*a,0);
			}
			operator==(myPatch);
		#};

	}
but it does not work properly, since it "does not like" the lines where I evaluate yp and zp.

Could you help, please?

Thanks,
Samuele
You know that you've succeeded when people start using swak-idioms in their C++-code
I think what you want is (I'm doing this from memory so it might be slightly off. Especially the .y()-part)
Code:
yp=this->patch().Cf()[i].y();
zp=this->patch().Cf()[i].z()+0.005;
Although I honestly don't understand why you'd want to do that. These values are not used afterwards.
Also replace the next line with
Code:
myPatch[i]=vector(0,-2*a,0);
because otherwise the whole myPatch would have the value from the last iteration (not that it matters here because it is the same value anyway for the present code)

Concerning "can't compile it on the machine where I have to launch my simulations": if it is about outdated bison&flex on that machine: the development-version (and next release) of swak have a script to download and build a more up-to-date version of bison and use that. Nothing more than a C++-compiler is needed. And you must have access to that on that machine (otherwise coded wouldn't work)
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