Defined Wall Shear Stress Boundary Condition

mart.hein · March 30, 2011, 09:22

Hello everybody,

I want to implement a boundary condition, where I can define the shear stress at a wall. First I tried to adopt the mutWallFunction for my purpose and modified it to calculate the turbulent viscosity as follows

Code:

 mut = tauWall / gradU - mu

where tauWall is my specified wall shear stress, gradU the velocity gradient normal to the wall and mu the molecular viscosity.

Unfortunately this only works well for coarse meshes. In other cases the velocity gradient becomes to large and the turbulent viscosity gets negative.

Is there a better way to implement such a boundary condition?

Thanks for your help!

Regards

Martin

eugene · April 14, 2011, 13:44

You could create a specific wall boundary condition for U that overrides the snGrad fvPatchField function so as to provide a wall velocity gradient equal to: gradU = tauw / nutw

March 30, 2011, 09:22	Defined Wall Shear Stress Boundary Condition	#1
mart.hein New Member Join Date: Jan 2011 Posts: 4 Rep Power: 15	Hello everybody, I want to implement a boundary condition, where I can define the shear stress at a wall. First I tried to adopt the mutWallFunction for my purpose and modified it to calculate the turbulent viscosity as follows Code: mut = tauWall / gradU - mu where tauWall is my specified wall shear stress, gradU the velocity gradient normal to the wall and mu the molecular viscosity. Unfortunately this only works well for coarse meshes. In other cases the velocity gradient becomes to large and the turbulent viscosity gets negative. Is there a better way to implement such a boundary condition? Thanks for your help! Regards Martin

April 14, 2011, 13:44		#2
eugene Senior Member Eugene de Villiers Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 725 Rep Power: 21	You could create a specific wall boundary condition for U that overrides the snGrad fvPatchField function so as to provide a wall velocity gradient equal to: gradU = tauw / nutw aerospaceman likes this.

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