Supersonic flow hitting a wedge-shaped obstacle

OpenFOAM 4.x

Case directory

$FOAM_TUTORIALS/compressible/rhoCentralFoam/wedge15Ma5

Summary

A virtual non-viscous gas flow, "normalized" to have a sound velocity of 1 m/s at a temperature of 1 K, hitting an obstacle at supersonic speed is calculated for 0.2 seconds.

Gas flows in from the region "inlet" at 5 m/s (Mach number 5) and out from the region "outlet". The region "top" and "bottom" are symmetrical boundaries, and the region "obstacle" is a slip wall.

Model geometry Model geometry

The turbulence model is not used, and the analysis is performed in 2-dimensions.

The physical properties of the gas are specified in the file constant/thermophysicalProperties as follows.

mixture
{
    specie
    {
        nMoles          1;
        molWeight       11640.3;
    }
    thermodynamics
    {
        Cp              2.5;
        Hf              0;
    }
    transport
    {
        mu              0;
        Pr              1;
    }
}

The meshes are as follows, and the number of mesh is 16128.

Mesh Meshes

The calculation result is as follows.

The flow velocity is as follows.

Flow velocity at 0.02 sec (U) Flow velocity at 0.02 sec (U)
Flow velocity at 0.06 sec (U) Flow velocity at 0.06 sec (U)
Flow velocity at 0.2 sec (U) Flow velocity at 0.2 sec (U)

And the pressure is as follows.

Pressure at 0.02 sec (p) Pressure at 0.02 sec (p)
Pressure at 0.06 sec (p) Pressure at 0.06 sec (p)
Pressure at 0.2 sec (p) Pressure at 0.2 sec (p)

Commands

cp -r $FOAM_TUTORIALS/compressible/rhoCentralFoam/wedge15Ma5 wedge15Ma5
cd wedge15Ma5

blockMesh
rhoCentralFoam

paraFoam

Calculation time

9.41 seconds *Single, Inter(R) Core(TM) i7-8700 CPU @ 3.20GHz 3.19GHz