[AOS]

Hello everybody,

I need your help
I am trying to simulate two-phase flow in T-junction channel with two inlets; one for oil and the other for water. I also have one outlet.
I tried interFoam as well as multiphaseEulerFoam but the problem was that water enters through the two inlet.
How can I make Openfoam simulate two different phases at the inlet ?
Thanks

[Saideep]

hi;

So, i was workin over T-junctions for some time.

If you need to have two different conditions for the inlet boundary or so you can just divide the entry faces into two different blocks so that one is independent from the other. however you can also use several external utilities like "swak4Foam" to set these typical boundary conditions but i guess splitting face into 2 different blocks is easier and straight forward.

hope this helps;
Saideep

[AOS]

hi
First of all thank you for your replay.
Actually, I using gmsh to create a mesh and I have inletOil and Inletwater what I mean I used two different inlets conditions not only because they are not the same phase but also because I have a velocity in the x-direction and the other in y-direction.

[Saideep]

Hi,

I am not familiar with gmesh.

But with blockMesh you can still do that. Divide your inlet into two faces ans specify the velocities at the inlet.
For example: inlet1 faces{0 1 2 3}, inlet2 faces {4 5 6 7};
inlet1
{
type fixedValue;
value uniform (x 0 0);
}

inlet2
{
type fixedValue;
value uniform (0 y 0);
}

[dschmidt]

As far as I understood, you don't need to split the inlets, cause you want to use one inlet only for water and the other one just for oil.
For that purpose, you control the phase fractions at boundaries with the "alpha"-files.

In interFoam you only have one alpha-file an switch between the phases with alpha 1/0.
https://github.com/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM...apillaryRise/0
e.g.:

    inlet1
    {
        type            fixedValue;
        value           uniform 0;
    }
    inlet2
    {
        type            fixedValue;
        value           uniform 1;
    }

In multiphaseEulerFoam each phase has its own alpha file.
https://github.com/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM...bubbleColumn/0

e.g.

alpha.oil...

    inlet1
    {
        type            fixedValue;
        value           uniform 0;
    }
    inlet2
    {
        type            fixedValue;
        value           uniform 1;
    }


alpha.water...

    inlet1
    {
        type            fixedValue;
        value           uniform 1;
    }
    inlet2
    {
        type            fixedValue;
        value           uniform 0;
    }

[Sripadaraja]

Hi Everyone,

I am New to OpenFoam. I want to perform the same kind of simulation which Alberta mentioned. I am not sure which mesh is suitable. I am getting the following error. Pls help.

paramesh@HP-WS3:~/OpenFOAM/paramesh-3.0.0/run/tutorials/incompressible/icoFoam/TJunction_gmail$ blockMesh
/*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*\
| ========= | |
| \\ / F ield | OpenFOAM: The Open Source CFD Toolbox |
| \\ / O peration | Version: 3.0.0 |
| \\ / A nd | Web: www.OpenFOAM.org |
| \\/ M anipulation | |
\*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
Build : 3.0.0-8b097f6d8dd9
Exec : blockMesh
Date : Dec 02 2015
Time : 13:15:22
Host : "HP-WS3"
PID : 5841
Case : /home/paramesh/OpenFOAM/paramesh-3.0.0/run/tutorials/incompressible/icoFoam/TJunction_gmail
nProcs : 1
sigFpe : Enabling floating point exception trapping (FOAM_SIGFPE).
fileModificationChecking : Monitoring run-time modified files using timeStampMaster
allowSystemOperations : Allowing user-supplied system call operations

// * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * //
Create time

--> FOAM Warning :
From function dlOpen(const fileName&, const bool)
in file POSIX.C at line 1179
dlopen error : libgroovyBC.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
--> FOAM Warning :
From function dlLibraryTable:pen(const fileName&, const bool)
in file db/dynamicLibrary/dlLibraryTable/dlLibraryTable.C at line 99
could not load "libgroovyBC.so"
--> FOAM Warning :
From function dlOpen(const fileName&, const bool)
in file POSIX.C at line 1179
dlopen error : libswakFunctionObjects.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
--> FOAM Warning :
From function dlLibraryTable:pen(const fileName&, const bool)
in file db/dynamicLibrary/dlLibraryTable/dlLibraryTable.C at line 99
could not load "libswakFunctionObjects.so"


--> FOAM FATAL ERROR:
Cannot open mesh description file
"/home/paramesh/OpenFOAM/paramesh-3.0.0/run/tutorials/incompressible/icoFoam/TJunction_gmail/system/blockMeshDict"


From function blockMesh
in file blockMeshApp.C at line 149.

FOAM exiting





-Sripadaraja