The standard naming convention for heat flux is "q" and this is used for the
conductive and convective heat fluxes is OpenFOAM. The use of "Qr" for
radiative heat flux is an anomaly which causes confusion, particularly for
boundary conditions in which "Q" is used to denote power in Watts. The name of
the radiative heat flux has now been corrected to "qr" and all models, boundary
conditions and tutorials updated.
Description
Evolves a passive scalar transport equation.
- To specify the field name set the \c field entry
- To employ the same numerical schemes as another field set
the \c schemesField entry,
- A constant diffusivity may be specified with the \c D entry,
- Alternatively if a turbulence model is available a turbulent diffusivity
may be constructed from the laminar and turbulent viscosities using the
optional diffusivity coefficients \c alphaD and \c alphaDt (which default
to 1):
\verbatim
D = alphaD*nu + alphaDt*nut
\endverbatim
Resolves feature request https://bugs.openfoam.org/view.php?id=2453
e.g.
fieldMinMax fieldMinMax write:
min(T) = 291 in cell 255535 at location (-0.262546 -0.538933 1.00574) on processor 9
max(T) = 336.298 in cell 419031 at location (1.7468 0.758405 8.10989) on processor 1
min(mag(U)) = 0 in cell 14990 at location (-0.0824383 1.68479 1.5349) on processor 0
max(mag(U)) = 652.341 in cell 218284 at location (0.609849 0.167247 1.00091) on processor 12
e.g. in tutorials/heatTransfer/buoyantSimpleFoam/externalCoupledCavity/0/T
hot
{
type externalCoupledTemperature;
commsDir "${FOAM_CASE}/comms";
file "data";
initByExternal yes;
log true;
value uniform 307.75; // 34.6 degC
}
Previously both 'file' and 'fileName' were used inconsistently in different
classes and given that there is no confusion or ambiguity introduced by using
the simpler 'file' rather than 'fileName' this change simplifies the use and
maintenance of OpenFOAM.
defined by functionObjects, e.g. wallHeatFlux, wallShearStress and yPlus.
Patch contributed by Bruno Santos
Resolves bug-report http://bugs.openfoam.org/view.php?id=2353
postProcess -func MachNo
previously generated the warning
Executing functionObjects
--> FOAM Warning : functionObjects::MachNo MachNo cannot find required field U
which is incorrect; the field 'U' is available but the
thermophysicalProperties is not. Now 'postProcess' generates the
warning:
Executing functionObjects
--> FOAM Warning : functionObjects::MachNo MachNo cannot find required object thermophysicalProperties of type fluidThermo
--> FOAM Warning : functionObjects::MachNo MachNo failed to execute.
Resolves bug-report http://bugs.openfoam.org/view.php?id=2352
The operation can be applied to any volume or surface fields generating a
volume or surface scalar field.
Example of function object specification:
\verbatim
Ttot
{
type add;
libs ("libfieldFunctionObjects.so");
fields (T Tdelta);
result Ttot;
executeControl writeTime;
writeControl writeTime;
}
\endverbatim
Also refactored functionObjects::fieldsExpression to avoid code
duplication between the 'add' and 'subtract' functionObjects.
The operation can be applied to any volume or surface fields generating a
volume or surface scalar field.
Example of function object specification:
\verbatim
Tdiff
{
type subtract;
libs ("libfieldFunctionObjects.so");
fields (T Tmean);
result Tdiff;
executeControl writeTime;
writeControl writeTime;
}
\endverbatim
Description
Allows specification of different writing frequency of objects registered
to the database.
It has similar functionality as the main time database through the
\c writeControl setting:
- timeStep
- writeTime
- adjustableRunTime
- runTime
- clockTime
- cpuTime
It also has the ability to write the selected objects that were defined
with the respective write mode for the requested \c writeOption, namely:
- \c autoWrite - objects set to write at output time
- \c noWrite - objects set to not write by default
- \c anyWrite - any option of the previous two
Example of function object specification:
\verbatim
writeObjects1
{
type writeObjects;
libs ("libutilityFunctionObjects.so");
...
objects (obj1 obj2);
writeOption anyWrite;
}
\endverbatim
Patch contributed by Bruno Santos
Resolves bug-report http://bugs.openfoam.org/view.php?id=2090
Now the functionality to write single graph files or log files (vs time)
may be used in the creation of any form of functionObject, not just
those relating to a mesh region.
