Water flowing down the wall

OpenFOAM 4.x

Case directory

$FOAM_TUTORIALS/lagrangian/reactingParcelFilmFoam/rivuletPanel

Summary

We calculate the water flowing down the wall. Water flows in from the region "inlet" at the top of the wall and out from the region "outlet" at the bottom. The calculation is done using a liquid film model with a single-layer mesh.

Model geometry Model geometry

The settings for the liquid film model is defined in the file "surfaceFilmProperties" in the directory "constant" as follows. Water inflow is specified as a boundary condition. So the liquid film thickness 0.003 m is defined in the file "deltaf" in the directory "0/wallFilmRegion", and the flow velocity (0, -0.075, 0) m/s is defined in the file "Uf".

surfaceFilmModel kinematicSingleLayer;
regionName      wallFilmRegion;
active          true;

kinematicSingleLayerCoeffs
{
    filmThermoModel constant;
    constantCoeffs
    {
        specie      water;
        rho0        1000;
        mu0         1e-3;
        sigma0      0.07;
    }
    injectionModels ();
    turbulence      laminar;
    laminarCoeffs
    {
        Cf          0.001;
    }
    forces
    (
        contactAngle
        thermocapillary
    );
    contactAngleCoeffs
    {
        Ccf             1;
        contactAngleDistribution
        {
            type            normal;
            normalDistribution
            {
                minValue        50;
                maxValue        100;
                expectation     75;
                variance        100;
            }
        }
        zeroForcePatches    ();
    }
}

The meshes for the liquid film model is shown below. The number of mesh is 43200 and the number of mesh layers in the thickness direction is 1.

Mesh Meshes

The calculation result is as follows.

Water thickness on the wall (at 1/2 speed, deltaf)
Water thickness on the wall at 0 sec (deltaf) Water thickness on the wall at 0 sec (deltaf)
Water thickness on the wall at 1 sec (deltaf) Water thickness on the wall at 1 sec (deltaf)
Water thickness on the wall at 2 sec (deltaf) Water thickness on the wall at 2 sec (deltaf)
Water thickness on the wall at 3 sec (deltaf) Water thickness on the wall at 3 sec (deltaf)

Commands

cp -r $FOAM_TUTORIALS/lagrangian/reactingParcelFilmFoam/rivuletPanel rivuletPanel
cd rivuletPanel

cp -rf 0.orig 0
blockMesh

topoSet -dict system/wallFilmRegion.topoSet
extrudeToRegionMesh -overwrite

paraFoam -touch
paraFoam -touch -region wallFilmRegion

reactingParcelFilmFoam

paraFoam

After making the meshes for the wall with blockMesh, we use the utilities topoSet and extrudeToRegionMesh to extrude the wall meshes and make the meshes for the liquid film model.

Calculation time

12 hours 26 minutes 53.08 seconds *Single, Inter(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz 3.40GHz