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Old   December 18, 2009, 06:11
Question k epsilon boundary conditions for pisofoam ras solver
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Hi,

I am struggling with understanding the proper boundary conditions for inlet, outlet and fixed walls for the epsilon, k, nut, nutilda and R files located in the 0 folder. Any feedback would be appreciated. I'm not sure when to use epsilonWallFunction, kqRWallFunction, and nutWallFunction. This is the error message that I'm getting:







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Invalid wall function specification
Patch type for patch inlet must be wall
Current patch type is patch

#0 Foam::error:rintStack(Foam::Ostream&) in "/home/george/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6/lib/linux64GccDPOpt/libOpenFOAM.so"
#1 Foam::error::abort() in "/home/george/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6/lib/linux64GccDPOpt/libOpenFOAM.so"
#2 Foam::fvPatchField<double>::adddictionaryConstruct orToTable<Foam::incompressible::RASModels::kqRWall FunctionFvPatchField<double> >::New(Foam::fvPatch const&, Foam:imensionedField<double, Foam::volMesh> const&, Foam::dictionary const&) in "/home/george/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6/lib/linux64GccDPOpt/libincompressibleRASModels.so"
#3 Foam::fvPatchField<double>::New(Foam::fvPatch const&, Foam:imensionedField<double, Foam::volMesh> const&, Foam::dictionary const&) in "/home/george/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6/applications/bin/linux64GccDPOpt/pisoFoam"
#4 Foam::GeometricField<double, Foam::fvPatchField, Foam::volMesh>::GeometricBoundaryField::GeometricB oundaryField(Foam::fvBoundaryMesh const&, Foam:imensionedField<double, Foam::volMesh> const&, Foam::dictionary const&) in "/home/george/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6/applications/bin/linux64GccDPOpt/pisoFoam"
#5 Foam::GeometricField<double, Foam::fvPatchField, Foam::volMesh>::readField(Foam::Istream&) in "/home/george/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6/applications/bin/linux64GccDPOpt/pisoFoam"
#6 Foam::GeometricField<double, Foam::fvPatchField, Foam::volMesh>::GeometricField(Foam::IOobject const&, Foam::fvMesh const&) in "/home/george/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6/applications/bin/linux64GccDPOpt/pisoFoam"
#7 Foam::tmp<Foam::GeometricField<double, Foam::fvPatchField, Foam::volMesh> > Foam::incompressible::autoCreateWallFunctionField< double, Foam::incompressible::RASModels::kqRWallFunctionFv PatchField<double> >(Foam::word const&, Foam::fvMesh const&) in "/home/george/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6/lib/linux64GccDPOpt/libincompressibleRASModels.so"
#8 Foam::incompressible::autoCreateK(Foam::word const&, Foam::fvMesh const&) in "/home/george/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6/lib/linux64GccDPOpt/libincompressibleRASModels.so"
#9 Foam::incompressible::RASModels::kEpsilon::kEpsilo n(Foam::GeometricField<Foam::Vector<double>, Foam::fvPatchField, Foam::volMesh> const&, Foam::GeometricField<double, Foam::fvsPatchField, Foam::surfaceMesh> const&, Foam::transportModel&) in "/home/george/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6/lib/linux64GccDPOpt/libincompressibleRASModels.so"
#10 Foam::incompressible::RASModel::adddictionaryConst ructorToTable<Foam::incompressible::RASModels::kEp silon>::New(Foam::GeometricField<Foam::Vector<doub le>, Foam::fvPatchField, Foam::volMesh> const&, Foam::GeometricField<double, Foam::fvsPatchField, Foam::surfaceMesh> const&, Foam::transportModel&) in "/home/george/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6/lib/linux64GccDPOpt/libincompressibleRASModels.so"
#11 Foam::incompressible::RASModel::New(Foam::Geometri cField<Foam::Vector<double>, Foam::fvPatchField, Foam::volMesh> const&, Foam::GeometricField<double, Foam::fvsPatchField, Foam::surfaceMesh> const&, Foam::transportModel&) in "/home/george/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6/lib/linux64GccDPOpt/libincompressibleRASModels.so"
#12 Foam::incompressible::turbulenceModel::addturbulen ceModelConstructorToTable<Foam::incompressible::RA SModel>::NewturbulenceModel(Foam::GeometricField<F oam::Vector<double>, Foam::fvPatchField, Foam::volMesh> const&, Foam::GeometricField<double, Foam::fvsPatchField, Foam::surfaceMesh> const&, Foam::transportModel&) in "/home/george/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6/lib/linux64GccDPOpt/libincompressibleRASModels.so"
#13 Foam::incompressible::turbulenceModel::New(Foam::G eometricField<Foam::Vector<double>, Foam::fvPatchField, Foam::volMesh> const&, Foam::GeometricField<double, Foam::fvsPatchField, Foam::surfaceMesh> const&, Foam::transportModel&) in "/home/george/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6/lib/linux64GccDPOpt/libincompressibleTurbulenceModel.so"
#14 main in "/home/george/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6/applications/bin/linux64GccDPOpt/pisoFoam"
#15 __libc_start_main in "/lib64/libc.so.6"
#16 _start at /usr/src/packages/BUILD/glibc-2.9/csu/../sysdeps/x86_64/elf/start.S:116


From function kqRWallFunctionFvPatchField::checkType()
in file derivedFvPatchFields/wallFunctions/kqRWallFunctions/kqRWallFunction/kqRWallFunctionFvPatchField.C at line 48.

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Old   December 18, 2009, 07:57
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I'm no expert in turbulence, but I can quickly give you what I have...

each time a function is called 'variable'WallFunction, it can only be applied on a boundary which type is WALL (and no patch), what is mentionned in constant/polyMesh/boundary.

Unfortunatly, I cannot really help further.

Just my 2 cents, regards
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Old   December 18, 2009, 10:40
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All patches with a wall function need to specified as "wall" and not "patch" (see the very first error message). But you should not supply a wallfunction on the inlet.

For example my 0/epsilon looks like this
Quote:
inlet
{
type fixedValue;
value uniform <some value that you specify>;
}
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Quote:
Originally Posted by chamoun View Post
Hi,

I am struggling with understanding the proper boundary conditions for inlet, outlet and fixed walls for the epsilon, k, nut, nutilda and R files located in the 0 folder. Any feedback would be appreciated. I'm not sure when to use epsilonWallFunction, kqRWallFunction, and nutWallFunction. This is the error message that I'm getting:


The value of k, eps and nu goes to zero at wall. and the inlet valu depends upon the kind of case one is solving. Basically its specifying the incoming turbulence. There are other ways to specify the valu of k and eps as well, like turbulent intencity and length scale. I am not very much sure about the inlet values but wall conditions should be zero.
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Old   May 10, 2011, 06:30
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I have already specified k and epsilon conditions by solving the respectives equations. But I'm struggling with the R condition what value should I put for an turbulent developed flow inlet??
Thanks in advance
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