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November 3, 2011, 12:58 |
Free surface bubbling/air gap problem
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Hello,
I am attempting to model a flume tank (rectangular channel with free surface flow), with a wall and an actuator disk. Basically a dam with a large turbine. The attached images show a side view of the domain, with the white rectangle representing the wall, and the rectangular outline below the wall representing the extents of the actuator disk. I am finding that initially, the water surface looks like the first image. Smooth, with no bubbles or gaps on the upstream side of the turbine. However, after running the simulation for a long time in order for the velocity through the actuator disk to reach a steady value, these bubbles/air gaps start appearing in the free surface upstream of the turbine (seen in the second image). This behaviour has also shown up even if I round the edges of the barrage. I am primarily interested in the head difference across the wall, so this is a problem for me. Does anyone have any idea what is going on? The details of the sim are provided below: Domain: 3D rectangular channel with a wall and actuator disk Inlet BC: Mass flow inlet for water phase Outlet BC: Pressure outlet with user function defining hydrostatic pressure Initial Water level: Defined using a field function Tank side walls: symmetry planes Turbulence Model: k-epsilon Thanks for any suggestions! |
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November 5, 2011, 16:51 |
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Do you run steady state or transient? Have you checked your mesh?
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November 5, 2011, 18:37 |
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Hi,
I am running a transient simulation. I have a pretty fine mesh around the free surface. Do you have any mesh advice/ rules of thumb? Thanks! |
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November 6, 2011, 04:29 |
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you are hiding important information in your VOF scalar plot - how well the air and water are being separated at the interface - use the default number of colours and ideally for VOF you should see non red and blue across one maybe two cells. zoom in and look at the problem area - you might need a finer mesh and/or finer timestep - also plot convective courant number and try to keep below 1.
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