There is now an optional tauy entry in the thixotropicCoeffs to specify the
Bingham yield stress, e.g.:
filmViscosityModel thixotropic;
thixotropicCoeffs
{
mu0 100;
muInf 0.1;
a 0.1;
b 3;
c 0.005;
d 0.9;
tauy 1.1; // Yield stress in Pa
}
In multiphase systems it is only necessary to solve for all but one of the
moving phases. The new referencePhase option allows the user to specify which
of the moving phases should not be solved, e.g. in constant/phaseProperties of the
tutorials/multiphase/reactingMultiphaseEulerFoam/RAS/fluidisedBed tutorial case with
phases (particles air);
referencePhase air;
the particles phase is solved for and the air phase fraction and fluxes obtained
from the particles phase which provides equivalent behaviour to
reactingTwoPhaseEulerFoam and is more efficient than solving for both phases.
combining the multiphaseCompressibleTurbulenceModels and derivedFvPatchFields
libraries with the generic multiphase turbulence models from the
twoPhaseCompressibleTurbulenceModels library, kineticTheoryModels and
phasePressureModel into a single common library compiled and linked into both
reactingTwoPhaseEulerFoam and reactingMultiphaseEulerFoam.
This significantly simplifies the creation and maintenance of coded classes and
used in CodedFunction1 to provide an example of its use; the other coded classes
will be refactored and simplified in this manner in the future.
For example in the new tutorial case:
tutorials/incompressible/pimpleFoam/laminar/pitzDailyPulse
a cosine bell velocity pulse is specified at the inlet by directly defining the
code for it:
inlet
{
type uniformFixedValue;
uniformValue coded;
name pulse;
codeInclude
#{
#include "mathematicalConstants.H"
#};
code
#{
return vector
(
0.5*(1 - cos(constant::mathematical::twoPi*min(x/0.3, 1))),
0,
0
);
#};
}
which is then compiled automatically and linked into the running pimpleFoam
dynamically and executed to set the inlet velocity.
Rather than being tied to the Time class the dlLibraryTable libs is now a global
variable in the Foam namespace which is accessable by any class needing to load
dynamic libraries, in particular argList, Time and codeStream.
e.g. in tutorials/incompressible/pisoFoam/LES/motorBike/motorBike/system/cuttingPlane
surfaceFormat vtk;
writeFormat binary;
fields (p U);
selects writing the VTK surface files in binary format which significantly
speeds-up reading of the files in paraview.
Currently binary writing is supported in VTK and EnSight formats.
Transformer now supports scaling matrices. The number of ways in which
transformer can be constructed has also been reduced to null (i.e.,
identity), pure translation, pure scaling and pure rotation. Compound
translations must be constructed by combining transformers with the
dot-product (&) operator. In this way, the details of in what order the
different parts of the transformation are applied have been abstracted.
In the new tutorial mesh/snappyHexMesh/pipe the pipe diameter changes by a factor
of 2 but the number of cells across the pipe is specified to be constant along
the length using the new "span" refinement mode in which the number of cells
across the span is set to be at least 40:
refinementRegions
{
pipe
{
mode span;
levels ((1000 2)); // Maximum distance and maximum level
cellsAcrossSpan 40;
}
}
This operates in conjunction with the "pointCloseness" option in surfaceFeatures
which writes a surfacePointScalarField of the local span of the domain. Note
that the behaviour of this option is critically dependent on the quality of this
field and the surface may need to be re-triangulated more isotropically to
ensure the "pointCloseness" is accurate and representative of the domain and the
required mesh distribution.
