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Radu Mustata
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Zaragoza, Spain
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Hi,
I am a new user of OpenFoam and I am interested in LES, in general. Thought I should start with channelOodles and then with oodles...and a simple cold-flow "jet" with a 3D block geometry generated with blockMesh. Then, for oodles, I experienced the same problems as another member in the discussion group ( Co growing, inexplicably and then the code blows). This was until I used the "smooth" delta in "turbulenceProperites" dict with Samgorinsky. My question is regarding this soomthed delta, what does it do? (I remember seeing something about it but I just cannot find the message or the thread anymore) Thanks, Radu |
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Eugene de Villiers
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smoothDelta smears the SGS length scale so that larger length scales are used for small cells adjacent to larger cells. Basically you put a maximum on the ratio between SGS length scales in adjacent cells. This reduces the impact of a sudden jump in cell size on the the SGS model and by inference the resolved motion. It has no impact if all the cells are the same size or the size varies gradually.
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Radu Mustata
Join Date: Mar 2009
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Thanks for the message. I thought of something like this, and later I remembered where I saw the brief description (in the sources for LESdeltas). So as long as my grid is "smooth" the smoothing won´t do much. Therefore I should pay more attention to the grid if I want to use the cuberootDelta.
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