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including third-body and pressure dependent derivatives, and derivative of the
temperature term. The complete Jacobian is more robust than the incomplete and
partially approximate form used previously and improves the efficiency of the
stiff ODE solvers which rely on the Jacobian.
Reaction rate evaluation moved from the chemistryModel to specie library to
simplfy support for alternative reaction rate expressions and associated
Jacobian terms.
Temperature clipping included in the Reaction class. This is inactive by default
but for most cases it is advised to provide temperature limits (high and
low). These are provided in the foamChemistryFile with the keywords Thigh and
Tlow. When using chemkinToFoam these values are set to the limits of the Janaf
thermodynamic data. With the new Jacobian this temperature clipping has proved
very beneficial for stability and for some cases essential.
Improvement of the TDAC MRU list better integrated in add and grow functions.
To get the most out of this significant development it is important to re-tune
the ODE integration tolerances, in particular the absTol in the odeCoeffs
sub-dictionary of the chemistryProperties dictionary:
odeCoeffs
{
solver seulex;
absTol 1e-12;
relTol 0.01;
}
Typically absTol can now be set to 1e-8 and relTol to 0.1 except for ignition
time problems, and with theses settings the integration is still robust but for
many cases a lot faster than previously.
Code development and integration undertaken by
Francesco Contino
Henry G. Weller, CFD Direct
Stiff chemistry solver validation test cases gri : GRI-Mech 3.0. CH4 combustion, 53 species, 325 reactions h2 : H2 combustion, 10 species, 27 reactions nc7h16 : n-Heptane combustion, 544 species, 2446 reactions ic8h18 : iso-Octane combustion, 874 species, 3796 reactions Results interpreted in 'validation' sub-directory, where OpenFOAM results are compared against those predicted by CHEMKIN II. Overall the best performing ODE solver is seulex followed closely by rodas23.