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July 15, 2016, 17:22 |
Oscillations at Shock Tube Contact Surface with RhoCentralFoam
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Matthew Shorter
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Hello,
I am working on a shock tube simulation as part of a research project. My current difficulty is getting a non oscillating value for p,T,U, and rho at the contact surface of the fluid domain. In the attached image you can see the small deviation in the plot. I have also attached the fvSchemes file. Currently, I am using gamma 1 interpolation but vanLeer and vanAlbada give similar results, with gauss linear and superbee causing the solver to crash. I have read the original paper on CentralFoam by Greenshields etal. and they briefly mentioned that the contact region had dubious accuracy. I am observing excellent results for shock velocity and strength, but have concerns regarding impact of the oscillations around contact surface affecting rest of simulation. I am somewhat confused as a limiter is supposed to make sure that the fields are behaving monotonically throughout the domain. Is the numerical error/oscillation caused by the discontinuity inevitable or can I mitigate it by changing the solver settings? This is currently in OF 3.0. Quote:
Last edited by matthewshorter; July 15, 2016 at 19:43. Reason: forum ate my fvSchemes attachment.... |
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July 15, 2016, 18:17 |
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W. Schuyler Hinman
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What Courant number are you using? Decreasing Courant number and also increasing grid resolution could help.
Personally, I have had the most success with vanAlbada. I have some friends that have found Gamma 0.5 to work well. |
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July 15, 2016, 19:38 |
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Matthew Shorter
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Hello,
Thank you for your response. I ran the case with gamma 0.5 and vanAlbada limiters with no improvement in the results. The current MaxCo value is set to 0.1, which is below the value of MaxCo = 0.2 that I have been using and the value I have seen used in other simulations. Currently, the shock tube has a pressure ratio of 145:1 across the diaphragm and consists of helium at 300k treated as an ideal gas. The tube is 4m long with 3200 elements (1D). I am still running a case with reduced courant number which for now appears slightly qualitatively better but that might just be wishful thinking.... I will report back next Monday. |
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July 18, 2016, 18:00 |
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W. Schuyler Hinman
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I happened to be writing a blog post about this topic when I saw your post. Here is a link to it. I finished it on the weekend. Let me know if it helps!
https://curiosityfluids.com/2016/07/18/shocktube-rhocentralfoam-tvd-schemes-test/ I think that using Gamma 1 like you are is a good choice. That or vanAlabada. I think if you continue to have issues you'll just have to use more cells and an even lower CFL. Hopefully I helped... haha Schuyler |
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July 18, 2016, 18:31 |
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Matthew Shorter
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Thank you for your response and very helpful blog post. I did not examine results with the other schemes in detail but did find results supporting your finding of Gamma 1 being stable and consistent, with results at MaxCo = 0.1 and MaxCo = 0.01 in my case being relatively close to each other. Since gamma 1 is providing very good results compared to analytical solution and minimal oscillations, I think I will stick with that. If I have time I will take a look at vanAlbada and see how that behaves for similar courant no. and mesh resolution as gamma 1.
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compressible, limiter, rhocentralfoam, shock capturing |
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