[D.B]

Hi All,
I am using icofoam for my laminar-incompressible flow simulation. I want a non-reflective BC for my exit boundary in openFoam. I have gone through various posts on the web-site and I get a feel that most of these posts are really old and there have been changes in the software since then henc I am making this new thread.

I want an advective boundary condition for my velocity which solves the Euler equation

dU/dt + U*dU/dx = 0 at the exit boundary. I thought advective BC would be useful and gave my BC as

outlet
{
type advective;
phi U;
}

but it gives and error that it tried to look for a scalar and U is a volvectorfield as shown below

"--> FOAM FATAL ERROR:

lookup of U from objectRegistry region0 successful
but it is not a surfaceScalarField, it is a volVectorField
"

So it seems(correct me if I am wrong) that the advective BC is only for scalar transport variables and not for vector fields like U. Is there a BC which can help me do that, since I see that the user guides haven't been updated to include new BC's.

If not then I might have to code my new BC, but I would prefer to not write a new code when an efficient one already exists. Any suggestions would be helpful.

Cheers,

[akidess]

phi is a flux, not a velocity. Set phi to phi and all will be good.