Creates view factors for the view factor radiation model.
User-selectable models:
- raySearchEngine: model to generate rays, i.e. face-to-face connections
- viewFactorModel: model to compute the view factors
For visualisation, use:
- Write the view factors as a volume field
writeViewFactors yes;
- Write the rays using OBJ format:
writeRays yes; // default = no
Participating patches must be in the \c vewFactorWall group, i.e. using the
\c inGroups entry of the "\<case\>/polyMesh/boundary" file.
\verbatim
myPatch
{
type wall;
inGroups 2(wall viewFactorWall);
...
}
\endverbatim
Reads:
- <constant>/viewFactorsDict : main controls
- <constant>/finalAgglom : agglomeration addressing (from faceAgglomerate)
Generates:
- <constant>/F : view factors (matrix)
- <constant>/mapDist : map used for parallel running
- <constant>/globalFaceFaces : face addressing
- can be useful for various orientation-related geometry or mesh
manipulations during pre-/post-processing:
* combine with linearDirection to achieve better extrusion results.
* orientation of transformations, blockMesh, result projections, ...
STYLE: minor code modernizations
Co-authored-by: Mark Olesen <>
- exprValueFieldTag is an extended version of exprValue,
with additional Field/List uniformity handling
- the exprValueFieldTag reduce() method provides a more efficient
method than using a regular combine operator. Since fields are
usually non-uniform, will mostly only need the bitwise reduce and
not a more expensive gather/combine.
ENH: output of exprValue (scalar type) now includes '.'
- prevents scalar/label ambiguity for values like '100.0', which would
otherwise be written as '100' and thus interpreted as a label value
when re-reading.
Based on the reference
Tomiyama, A., Kataoka, I., Zun, I., Sakaguchi, T. (1998)
Drag coefficients of single bubbles under normal and micro gravity
conditions
JSME International Journal, 41(2), 472-479.
Example usage
subModels
{
particleForces
{
tomiyamaDrag
{
sigma 0.07;
contamination pure; // pure | slight | full
}
}
}
Determines radiation heat flux between patches when using the viewFactor
radiation model.
Example usage
viewFactorHeatFlux1
{
// Mandatory entries (unmodifiable)
type viewFactorHeatFlux;
libs (utilityFunctionObjects);
// Optional entries (runtime modifiable)
qr qr;
}
STYLE: polyPatch cached areaFraction as std::unique_ptr
- more consistent with other demand-driven data.
Getter now returns tmp field instead of const reference.
