The combined solver includes the most advanced and general functionality from
each solver including:
Continuous phase
Lagrangian multiphase parcels
Optional film
Continuous and Lagrangian phase reactions
Radiation
Strong buoyancy force support by solving for p_rgh
The reactingParcelFoam and reactingParcelFilmFoam tutorials have been combined
and updated.
and the continuous-phase simulation type
For LTS and steady-state simulations the transient option does not need to be
provided as only steady-state tracking is appropriate. For transient running
the Lagrangian tracking may be steady or transient.
The evolution of a KinematicParcel happens in three stages; (1) tracking
across the cell, (2) interaction with the face or patch that has been
hit, and (3) clculation and and update of parcel and cell properties.
The KinematicParcel used to evolve in this order, as steps 1 and 2 were
part of the same lower level method. This meant that the update stage
was done after interacting with the face, meaning the parcel was not in
the cell that had just been tracked through, or, by means of a patch
interaction, had been modified such that it was no longer representative
of the track through the cell.
With the separation of stages 1 and 2 in the base class, it is now
possible to do the update stage before interacting with the face (i.e.,
proceeding in the order 1, 3, 2). This makes the state consistent for
the updates, and avoids the issues described.
Patch contributed by Timo Niemi, VTT.
This resolves bug report https://bugs.openfoam.org/view.php?id=2282
Particle collisions with ACMI patches are now handled. The hit detects
whether the location is within the overlap or the coupled region and
recurses, calling the hit routine appropriate for the region.
The low level tracking methods are now more consistently named. There is
now a distinction between tracking to a face and hitting it. Function
object side effects have been moved out of the base layer and into the
parcels on which they are meaningful.
The TrackData::switchProcessor flag was not being set for some of the
tracking steps made by the more complicated parcels. In the case that a
parcel starts the step already on a processor boundary, this sometimes
lead to the particle being transferred back and forth indefinitely. The
flag is now explicitly set in all cases.
Tracking through an inverted region of the mesh happens in a reversed
direction relative to a non-inverted region. Usually, this allows the
tracking to propagate normally, regardless of the sign of the space.
However, in rare cases, it is possible for a straight trajectory to form
a closed loop through both positive and negative regions. This causes
the tracking to loop indefinitely.
To fix this, the displacement through inverted regions has been
artifically increased by a small amount (1% at the moment). This has the
effect that the change in track fraction over the negative part of the
loop no longer exactly cancels the change over the positive part, and
the track therefore terminates.
