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    omegaWallFunction: Improved low-Reynolds number behavior and consistency with... · f260780b
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    omegaWallFunction: Improved low-Reynolds number behavior and consistency with the epsilonWallFunction
    
    Changed default mode of operation to use standard y+ based switching
    rather than the previous ad hoc blending and added consistent handling
    of the near-wall generation term.
    
    This boundary condition provides a wall constraint on turbulnce specific
    dissipation, omega for both low and high Reynolds number turbulence models.
    
    The near-wall omega may be either blended between the viscous region and
    logarithmic region values using:
    
        \f[
            \omega = sqrt(\omega_{vis}^2 + \omega_{log}^2)
        \f]
    
    where
    
    \vartable
        \omega_{vis} | omega in viscous region
        \omega_{log} | omega in logarithmic region
    \endvartable
    
    see eq.(15) of:
    \verbatim
        Menter, F., Esch, T.
        "Elements of Industrial Heat Transfer Prediction"
        16th Brazilian Congress of Mechanical Engineering (COBEM),
        Nov. 2001
    \endverbatim
    
    or switched between these values based on the laminar-to-turbulent y+ value
    derived from kappa and E.  Recent tests have shown that the standard
    switching method provides more accurate results for 10 < y+ < 30 when used
    with high Reynolds number wall-functions and both methods provide accurate
    results when used with continuous wall-functions.  Based on this the
    standard switching method is used by default.
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