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Old   April 3, 2016, 15:02
Default SprayFoam: incorrect mass in system as mesh is refined
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Hi Foamers,

I am using SprayFoam from OpenFOAM-2.3.x. I tried running a non-reacting case of n-dodecane injected into the domain using the default mesh in aachenbomb tutorial. All went well and no loss in mass.

To conduct a refinement study, I tried refining the mesh (as usual). To my surprise, I observed the total mass in the system by the end of injection is not even up to half of what was specied in "sprayCloudProperties" file i.e. massTotal.

I have tried the following:
  1. Increased parcelsPerSecond from 2000000 to 16000000
  2. Reduced minParticleMass to 1e-21
  3. Reduced parcelsPerSecond from 2000000 to 200000

All to no avail. Any help would be appreciated.

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