[Hillie]

Dear Foamers,

For some LES simulations I am trying to generate an inflow condition by means of running a half channel with a symmetry condition.

I am running PimpleFoam for the runs. in the direction were there is no symmetry condition the flow profile looks good. I attached a plot of Umean.

In the direction of the symmetry plane the results are a bit weird. The maximum flow velocity is not on the symmetry plane as one would expect but off center. I attached an other plot of the distribution.

The channel is reasonably small, 7x4x70 mm. On the forum I found that playing with the number of correctors in the pimple settings could help. Everything I tried did nothing to the velocity distribution though.

My current settings:

 nOuterCorrectors 1;
    nCorrectors     7;
    nNonOrthogonalCorrectors 0;
    pRefPoint       (0 0 0);
    pRefValue       0;

Does anybody have any pointers on what to do about it?

Cheers