[DancingButterfly]

Hello

I am trying to simulate a continuous flow through a unit with 3 inlets on the top and 12 outlets on the bottom. It is a 2-phase, turbulent problem (air and water), therefore I adapted the OpenFoam tutorial "damBreak" (found in the "interFoam" directory (ras)).

It runs and I can post-process it. However; only the amount of water I indicated with the box from setFields flows through the unit. But I'd like to have a continuous inlet flow. I tried to change the settings of the inlet in the U-folder, but then the program stops working after four time points and an error occurs.

How can I change the velocity settings for a continuous flow in that solver? Or should I use another tutorial?

Thank you a lot for your help!
Best, A.

[floquation]

Did you specify alpha=1 in 0/alpha.water at the water inlets?

[DancingButterfly]

Thank you for your answer.

I forgot to specify it, but it did still not work. Now I added "fixedFluxPressure" in p_rgh and it works.

Which specification should I take for the outlet, if I'd like the flow also to be continuous?

outlet
{
type inletOutlet;
inletValue uniform (0 0 0);
value uniform (0 0 0);
}

I apologize for the many questions. I've just started working with OpenFoam.
Thank you for your help!

[floquation]

Originally Posted by DancingButterfly

but it did still not work

Please specify what exactly is not working. Divergence?

Originally Posted by DancingButterfly

Which specification should I take for the outlet, if I'd like the flow also to be continuous?

outlet
{
type inletOutlet;
inletValue uniform (0 0 0);
value uniform (0 0 0);
}

Depends on what you want to achieve, but for an outlet we typically specify zeroGradient for the alpha field, zeroGradient for U and a fixedValue for p. See for example the following tutorial case:

(...)/tutorials/incompressible/pimpleFoam/pitzDaily

What you specified is an inletOutlet, meaning flow may flow inwards or outwards. We typically use such a condition for e.g. an atmosphere: when there is simply no clear outflow patch.

[DancingButterfly]

Thank you a lot for the help.

There was a problem with the Courant number. After two iterations it became really big and divergence happend. But now with your suggested changes, it works fine.

I really appreciate your fast responses.