[Jonas Ansoni]

Hi,

I am trying to find the time residence of water in a tank. I'm thinking in calculate the residence time as the time which the water takes to travel from the inlet to outlet through the streamlines. I'm using a solver like pisoFoam.
Does anyone have any suggestion or know other way to compute the residence time distribution on the openFoam.

Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

[Jonas Ansoni]

Hello,

I attached a code where I calculate the velocity components and multiply by a time step, with this I can find the next position of this particle in the next time step with only one particle using the icoFoam solver. However, I have to do this calculation using various particles triggered automatically from inlet.

My questions are: How can I do this calculation utilizing various particles and compare if the calculated points arrived in the outlet using the openFoam classes.

I tested the code cavity example, attached a figure.

Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

[olivierG]

hello,

I think there is already a tools in Paraview to plot path line and color with time.
But if you want a more advanced result, you should look at "residence time distribution": add a scalar, run a transient with a dirac / a step function and plot the RDT.

regards,
olivier

[Jonas Ansoni]

Hi Olivier, thanks for your answer.

I'm working with Multidisciplinary Design Optimization problems where I need to optimize a geometry according with the RTD. I developed a script that generates the geometries, meshes, and call the openfoam solver automatically and a objective function .

Could you give me more details of how to calculate the RTD, as you mentioned above?

Thanks in advance for your attention.

Jonas