Creating distributions for boundary conditions

OpenFOAM 4.x

Case directory

$FOAM_TUTORIALS/incompressible/boundaryFoam/boundaryWallFunctions

Summary

The flow is calculated to be used as a boundary condition. Periodic boundary conditions are set for the inflow region "front" and outflow region "back", and no-slip wall conditions are set for the "lowerWall" and "upperWall" regions, which are the channel walls. The mesh is created only in the Y direction and the calculation is performed as a 2-dimensional model.

The target average velocity of 10 m/s is specified in the file constant/transportProperties as follows.

Ubar            [0 1 -1 0 0 0 0] (10 0 0);

See "SimpleFoam: Backstep flow with inflow distribution" for information on how to use calculated flow data as boundary conditions.

The meshes are as follows.

Mesh Meshes

The calculation result is as follows.

Flow velocity (U) Flow velocity (U)
Distance from the wall vs. Flow velocity Distance from the wall vs. Flow velocity

Commands

cp -r $FOAM_TUTORIALS/incompressible/boundaryFoam/boundaryWallFunctions boundaryWallFunctions
cd boundaryWallFunctions

blockMesh
boundaryFoam

# Visualization in 3D
paraFoam

# Visualization in chart
gnuplot
gnuplot>plot "graphs/3000/Uf.xy"

Calculation time

5.04 seconds *Single, Inter(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz 3.40GHz