[jaswi]

Dear Forum

A very good evening to everybody

I am using incompressible k-epsilon turbulence model and i have two questions related to its implementation.

1) Can the wall function can be switched off ?

2) In the base class for incompressible turbulence model yplus is being calculated as :

Yp = pow(Cmu.value(), 0.25)*y_[patchNo]
*sqrt(k()().boundaryField()[patchNo].patchInternalField())
/nu().boundaryField()[patchNo];

whereas by definition:

y^{+} = \frac {u^{*} y} {\nu}

where
-> u^{*} - friction velocity
-> y - near wall distance
-> \nu - kinematic viscosity

I request the forum users for explanation. Please comment if anybody knows how the two formulations relate.

Best Regards
Jaswinder

[msha]

yes you can but you must make a new wall function and add it to the library of code and also change the wall function used in your turbulence model (e.g k-epsilon)