- Mar 14, 2016
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Henry Weller authored
Contributed by Bruno Santos Resolves patch report http://www.openfoam.org/mantisbt/view.php?id=2023 Update online documentation http://openfoam.github.io/Documentation-dev/html/
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- Feb 26, 2016
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Henry Weller authored
The deprecated non-const tmp functionality is now on the compiler switch NON_CONST_TMP which can be enabled by adding -DNON_CONST_TMP to EXE_INC in the Make/options file. However, it is recommended to upgrade all code to the new safer tmp by using the '.ref()' member function rather than the non-const '()' dereference operator when non-const access to the temporary object is required. Please report any problems on Mantis. Henry G. Weller CFD Direct.
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- Feb 20, 2016
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Henry Weller authored
To be used instead of zeroGradientFvPatchField for temporary fields for which zero-gradient extrapolation is use to evaluate the boundary field but avoiding fields derived from temporary field using field algebra inheriting the zeroGradient boundary condition by the reuse of the temporary field storage. zeroGradientFvPatchField should not be used as the default patch field for any temporary fields and should be avoided for non-temporary fields except where it is clearly appropriate; extrapolatedCalculatedFvPatchField and calculatedFvPatchField are generally more suitable defaults depending on the manner in which the boundary values are specified or evaluated. The entire OpenFOAM-dev code-base has been updated following the above recommendations. Henry G. Weller CFD Direct
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- Feb 15, 2016
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Henry Weller authored
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- Feb 13, 2016
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Henry Weller authored
The boundary conditions of HbyA are now constrained by the new "constrainHbyA" function which applies the velocity boundary values for patches for which the velocity cannot be modified by assignment and pressure extrapolation is not specified via the new "fixedFluxExtrapolatedPressureFvPatchScalarField". The new function "constrainPressure" sets the pressure gradient appropriately for "fixedFluxPressureFvPatchScalarField" and "fixedFluxExtrapolatedPressureFvPatchScalarField" boundary conditions to ensure the evaluated flux corresponds to the known velocity values at the boundary. The "fixedFluxPressureFvPatchScalarField" boundary condition operates exactly as before, ensuring the correct flux at fixed-flux boundaries by compensating for the body forces (gravity in particular) with the pressure gradient. The new "fixedFluxExtrapolatedPressureFvPatchScalarField" boundary condition may be used for cases with or without body-forces to set the pressure gradient to compensate not only for the body-force but also the extrapolated "HbyA" which provides a second-order boundary condition for pressure. This is useful for a range a problems including impinging flow, extrapolated inlet conditions with body-forces or for highly viscous flows, pressure-induced separation etc. To test this boundary condition at walls in the motorBike tutorial case set lowerWall { type fixedFluxExtrapolatedPressure; } motorBikeGroup { type fixedFluxExtrapolatedPressure; } Currently the new extrapolated pressure boundary condition is supported for all incompressible and sub-sonic compressible solvers except those providing implicit and tensorial porosity support. The approach will be extended to cover these solvers and options in the future. Note: the extrapolated pressure boundary condition is experimental and requires further testing to assess the range of applicability, stability, accuracy etc. Henry G. Weller CFD Direct Ltd.
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- Jan 10, 2016
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Henry Weller authored
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- Dec 08, 2015
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Henry Weller authored
It is better to declare the namespace of each function in the C file rather than "open" the namespace as this may lead to inconsistencies between the declaration in the H files and definition in the C file.
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- Dec 01, 2015
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Henry Weller authored
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Henry Weller authored
See also commit 82ccde32
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- Nov 10, 2015
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Henry Weller authored
Avoids the clutter and maintenance effort associated with providing the function signature string.
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- Jul 19, 2015
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Henry Weller authored
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- Jun 26, 2015
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Henry Weller authored
LTS is selected by the ddt scheme e.g. in the tutorials/multiphase/interFoam/ras/DTCHull case: ddtSchemes { default localEuler rDeltaT; } LTSInterFoam is no longer needed now that interFoam includes LTS support.
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- Jun 25, 2015
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Henry Weller authored
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- Jun 24, 2015
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Henry Weller authored
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Henry Weller authored
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- Jun 19, 2015
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Henry Weller authored
Select LTS via the ddtScheme: ddtSchemes { default localEuler rDeltaT; } The LTS algorithm is controlled with the standard settings in controlDict, e.g.: maxCo 0.5; maxDeltaT 2e-8; with the addition of the optional rDeltaT smoothing coefficient: rDeltaTSmoothingCoeff 0.02; which defaults to 0.02. For cases with reasonably uniform meshes like the forwardStep tutorial LTS does not provide much benefit but for cases with large variation in cell-size like the biconic25-55Run35 tutorial LTS provides significant speed-up to convergence particularly if started from uniform conditions.
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- Jun 18, 2015
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Henry Weller authored
Reverted changes proposed in http://openfoam.org/mantisbt/view.php?id=1548 as it adversely affects fixed-value BCs and is formulated to fix an issue with an unphysical case. Further analysis of the handling of fixed pressure outlet conditions as the Mach number approaches 1 is required.
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- Jun 17, 2015
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Henry Weller authored
Now consistent with the way the Courant number is calculated for other solvers
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Henry Weller authored
Resolves bug-report http://www.openfoam.org/mantisbt/view.php?id=1748
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- Jun 03, 2015
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Henry authored
Resolves bug-report http://openfoam.org/mantisbt/view.php?id=1730
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- Mar 13, 2015
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Henry authored
Resolves bug-report http://openfoam.org/mantisbt/view.php?id=1548
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- Feb 26, 2015
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Henry authored
Resolves bug-report http://openfoam.org/mantisbt/view.php?id=1548
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- Feb 25, 2015
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Henry authored
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- Feb 17, 2015
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Henry authored
Needed to create generic compressible turbulence model library
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- Feb 14, 2015
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Henry authored
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- Feb 12, 2015
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Henry authored
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- Jan 21, 2015
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Henry authored
The old separate incompressible and compressible libraries have been removed. Most of the commonly used RANS and LES models have been upgraded to the new framework but there are a few missing which will be added over the next few days, in particular the realizable k-epsilon model. Some of the less common incompressible RANS models have been introduced into the new library instantiated for incompressible flow only. If they prove to be generally useful they can be templated for compressible and multiphase application. The Spalart-Allmaras DDES and IDDES models have been thoroughly debugged, removing serious errors concerning the use of S rather than Omega. The compressible instances of the models have been augmented by a simple backward-compatible eddyDiffusivity model for thermal transport based on alphat and alphaEff. This will be replaced with a separate run-time selectable thermal transport model framework in a few weeks. For simplicity and ease of maintenance and further development the turbulent transport and wall modeling is based on nut/nuEff rather than mut/muEff for compressible models so that all forms of turbulence models can use the same wall-functions and other BCs. All turbulence model selection made in the constant/turbulenceProperties dictionary with RAS and LES as sub-dictionaries rather than in separate files which added huge complexity for multiphase. All tutorials have been updated so study the changes and update your own cases by comparison with similar cases provided. Sorry for the inconvenience in the break in backward-compatibility but this update to the turbulence modeling is an essential step in the future of OpenFOAM to allow more models to be added and maintained for a wider range of cases and physics. Over the next weeks and months more turbulence models will be added of single and multiphase flow, more additional sub-models and further development and testing of existing models. I hope this brings benefits to all OpenFOAM users. Henry G. Weller
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- Dec 14, 2014
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Henry authored
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- Dec 10, 2014
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Henry authored
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