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  1. Apr 28, 2016
  2. Apr 23, 2016
    • Henry Weller's avatar
      fireFoam: Added optional hydrostatic initialization of the pressure and density · 673e0d17
      Henry Weller authored
      Also added the new prghTotalHydrostaticPressure p_rgh BC which uses the
      hydrostatic pressure field as the reference state for the far-field
      which provides much more accurate entrainment is large open domains
      typical of many fire simulations.
      
      The hydrostatic field solution is controlled by the optional entries in
      the fvSolution.PIMPLE dictionary, e.g.
      
          hydrostaticInitialization yes;
          nHydrostaticCorrectors 5;
      
      and the solver must also be specified for the hydrostatic p_rgh field
      ph_rgh e.g.
      
          ph_rgh
          {
              $p_rgh;
          }
      
      Suitable boundary conditions for ph_rgh cannot always be derived from
      those for p_rgh and so the ph_rgh is read to provide them.
      
      To avoid accuracy issues with IO, restart and post-processing the p_rgh
      and ph_rgh the option to specify a suitable reference pressure is
      provided via the optional pRef file in the constant directory, e.g.
      
          dimensions      [1 -1 -2 0 0 0 0];
          value           101325;
      
      which is used in the relationship between p_rgh and p:
      
          p = p_rgh + rho*gh + pRef;
      
      Note that if pRef is specified all pressure BC specifications in the
      p_rgh and ph_rgh files are relative to the reference to avoid round-off
      errors.
      
      For examples of suitable BCs for p_rgh and ph_rgh for a range of
      fireFoam cases please study the tutorials in
      tutorials/combustion/fireFoam/les which have all been updated.
      
      Henry G. Weller
      CFD Direct Ltd.
      673e0d17
  3. Feb 13, 2016
    • Henry Weller's avatar
      Solvers: Added support for extrapolated pressure boundary conditions · fc2ce737
      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.
      fc2ce737
  4. Dec 02, 2015
    • Henry Weller's avatar
      fvOptions: Reorganized and updated to simplify use in sub-models and maintenance · 736621b9
      Henry Weller authored
      fvOptions are transferred to the database on construction using
      fv::options::New which returns a reference.  The same function can be
      use for construction and lookup so that fvOptions are now entirely
      demand-driven.
      
      The abstract base-classes for fvOptions now reside in the finiteVolume
      library simplifying compilation and linkage.  The concrete
      implementations of fvOptions are still in the single monolithic
      fvOptions library but in the future this will be separated into smaller
      libraries based on application area which may be linked at run-time in
      the same manner as functionObjects.
      736621b9
  5. Dec 01, 2015
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  7. May 29, 2015
    • Henry's avatar
      MRF: Separate MRF from fvOptions · c3ee2348
      Henry authored
      fvOptions does not have the appropriate structure to support MRF as it
      is based on option selection by user-specified fields whereas MRF MUST
      be applied to all velocity fields in the particular solver.  A
      consequence of the particular design choices in fvOptions made it
      difficult to support MRF for multiphase and it is easier to support
      frame-related and field related options separately.
      
      Currently the MRF functionality provided supports only rotations but
      the structure will be generalized to support other frame motions
      including linear acceleration, SRF rotation and 6DoF which will be
      run-time selectable.
      c3ee2348
  8. Mar 17, 2015
    • Henry's avatar
      Solvers based on p_rgh: Added support for optional hRef · e588d618
      Henry authored
      Allows the specification of a reference height, for example the height
      of the free-surface in a VoF simulation, which reduces the range of p_rgh.
      
      hRef is a uniformDimensionedScalarField specified via the constant/hRef
      file, equivalent to the way in which g is specified, so that it can be
      looked-up from the database.  For example see the constant/hRef file in
      the DTCHull LTSInterFoam and interDyMFoam cases.
      e588d618
  9. Feb 10, 2015
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  11. Jan 21, 2015
    • Henry's avatar
      Updated the whole of OpenFOAM to use the new templated TurbulenceModels library · 2aec2496
      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
      2aec2496
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  38. Feb 18, 2009
    • Mark Olesen's avatar
      use while (runTime.loop() { .. } where possible in solvers · 4b60453c
      Mark Olesen authored
      - change system/controlDict to use functions {..} instead of functions (..);
        * This is internally more efficient
      - fixed formatting of system/controlDict functions entry
      
      - pedantic change: use 'return 0' instead of 'return(0)' in the applications,
        since return is a C/C++ keyword, not a function.
      4b60453c
  39. Feb 17, 2009
    • Mark Olesen's avatar
      change solvers, utilities, etc. to use while (..) time-looping idiom · c2256e51
      Mark Olesen authored
      - this (now deprecated) idiom:
            for (runTime++; !runTime.end(); runTime++) { ... }
        has a few problems:
          * stop-on-next-write will be off-by-one (ie, doesn't work)
          * function objects are not executed on exit with runTime.end()
        Fixing these problems is not really possible.
      
      - this idiom
            while (runTime.run())
            {
                runTime++;
                ...
            }
        works without the above problems.
      c2256e51