The absolute value of the the time has been added to the rigid body
model state. This value is not directly necessary for calculating the
evolution of the rigid body system, it just facilitates the
implementation of sub-models which are in some way time-dependent.
Mixture molecular weight is now evaluated in heThermo like everything
else, relying on the low level specie mixing rules. Units have also been
corrected.
SpecieMixture: Pure virtual definition for W to prevent Clang warning
to support the evaporation of the solvent from the wax film and the changes in
viscosity caused by the reduction in solvent content.
BUG: filmViscosityModel::thixotropicViscosity: Corrected sign of impingement rate
to compensate for rhoSp having the wrong sign
BUG: surfaceFilmModels::waxSolventEvaporation: Corrected handling of impingement
ENH: surfaceFilmModels::waxSolventViscosity: Changed mixing to mole-fraction based
ENH: surfaceFilmModels::thermoSingleLayer: Added call to solveContinuity before updateSubmodels
to allow sub-models to solve transport equations for conserved properties
In the event that matching centroids across a coupled patch pair fails,
we fall back to matching the face point average. The latter can be
obtained more reliably on degenerate faces as the calculation does not
involve division by the face area.
This fallback was already implemented as part of processorPolyPatch.
This change also applies it to the faceCoupleInfo class used by
reconstructParMesh.
The restraints generate either joint-local (tau) or global (fx) forces.
At the moment they all generate the latter. This change corrects three
of the four restraints so that the forces are in the gobal coordinate
system and not the local coordinate system of the body.
The problem with this is that the forward dynamics code then transforms
most of the forces back to the body local coordinate system. A better
solution would be to associate restraints which are more sensibly
defined in a local frame with the joints instead of the bodies, and
return the forces as part of the tau variable.
Two boundary conditions for the modelling of semi-permeable baffles have
been added. These baffles are permeable to a number of species within
the flow, and are impermeable to others. The flux of a given species is
calculated as a constant multipled by the drop in mass fraction across
the baffle.
The species mass-fraction condition requires the transfer constant and
the name of the patch on the other side of the baffle:
boundaryField
{
// ...
membraneA
{
type semiPermeableBaffleMassFraction;
samplePatch membranePipe;
c 0.1;
value uniform 0;
}
membraneB
{
type semiPermeableBaffleMassFraction;
samplePatch membraneSleeve;
c 0.1;
value uniform 1;
}
}
If the value of c is omitted, or set to zero, then the patch is
considered impermeable to the species in question. The samplePatch entry
can also be omitted in this case.
The velocity condition does not require any special input:
boundaryField
{
// ...
membraneA
{
type semiPermeableBaffleVelocity;
value uniform (0 0 0);
}
membraneB
{
type semiPermeableBaffleVelocity;
value uniform (0 0 0);
}
}
These two boundary conditions must be used in conjunction, and the
mass-fraction condition must be applied to all species in the
simulation. The calculation will fail with an error message if either is
used in isolation.
A tutorial, combustion/reactingFoam/RAS/membrane, has been added which
demonstrates this transfer process.
This work was done with support from Stefan Lipp, at BASF.
To disable face correspondence checking set
checkFaceCorrespondence off;
in blockMeshDict. This is necessary in the rare cases where adjacent block
faces do not need to correspond because they are geometrically collapsed,
e.g. to form a pole/axis.
Resolves bug-report https://bugs.openfoam.org/view.php?id=2711
The integration of force and heat transfer onto the particle is
facilitated by a run-time-selectable integration scheme. These schemes
were written to generate the value at the end of an intregration step
and also an average value over the step from which the total transfer
was computed.
The average value in the Euler scheme was implemented incorrectly, which
resulted in the momentum and heat transfer processes being
non-conservative. Implementing the average correctly, however, would
have inteoduced a number of trancendental functions which would have
negated the purpose of the Euler scheme as the cheap and stable option.
The schemes have been rewritten to generate changes over the step,
rather than the final value. This change is then used to calculate the
transfers. Regardless of the scheme, this formulation is guaranteed to
be conservative, and the Euler scheme remains computationally
inexpensive.
This change was made with help from Timo Niemi, VTT
This resolves bug report https://bugs.openfoam.org/view.php?id=2666
ENH: integrationSchemes: Further simplification and optimisation
Removed templating from integration schemes, improved the name
convention, and optimised the utilisation so that the virtual call is
only made once per integration in the KinematicParcel and the
ThermoParcel.
BUG: integrationSchemes: Corrections to coupled/non-coupled force splitting
The integration splitting implemented in commit a5806207 has been shown
to be incorrect in some cases. A new procedure has been implemented
which can correctly split the implicit-explicit integral into a number
of pieces, in order to calculate the contribution of each. This is
intended for integrating coupled and non-coupled particle momentum and
heat transfers.
However, currently there is only ever one implicit coefficient used in
these transfers (there is no implicit non-coupled contribution). The
evaluation has therefore been short-cutted to only do the integration
with respect to the coupled contributions. The splitting functionality
has been retained in case additional separate implicit coefficients are
required in the future.
This change was made with help from Timo Niemi, VTT
This resolves bug report https://bugs.openfoam.org/view.php?id=2666
XiEngineFoam is a premixed/partially-premixed combustion engine solver which
exclusively uses the Xi flamelet combustion model.
engineFoam is a general engine solver for inhomogeneous combustion with or
without spray supporting run-time selection of the chemistry-based combustion
model.
Standard crank-connecting rod and the new free-piston kinematics motion options
are provides, others can easily be added.
Contributed by Francesco Contino and Nicolas Bourgeois, BURN Research Group.
- added an explicit print, but only report profiling to the log
file from master process.
We don't wish to overwrite any profiling that was conducted during
the simulation. Besides which, we don't have a proper Time object
for handling the write nicely either.
- csearch(), search(), csearchScoped(), searchScoped() methods
can be used to find an entry and also retain the enclosing
dictionary context.
- To avoid ambiguity between a dot (.) as a scoping character and
legal part of a keyword, entries can now be accessed directly using
slash-scoping semantics similar to file-names:
* cfindScopedDictPtr, findScopedDictPtr
- To get or create a sub-dictionary entry:
* makeScopedDictPtr, which behaves similarly to mkdirp in that it
will create any intermediate dictionaries as required.
- this increases the flexibility of the interface
- Add stringOps 'natural' string sorting comparison.
Digits are sorted in their natural order, which means that
(file10.txt file05.txt file2.txt)
are sorted as
(file2.txt file05.txt file10.txt)
STYLE: consistent naming of template parameters for comparators
- Compare for normal binary predicates
- ListComparePredicate for list compare binary predicates
- similar to word::validate to allow stripping of invalid characters
without triggering a FatalError.
- use this validated fileName in Foam::readDir to avoid problems when
a directory contains files with invalid characters in their names
- adjust rmDir to handle filenames with invalid characters
- fileName::equals() static method to compare strings while ignoring
any differences that are solely due to duplicate slashes
- more consistent naming:
* Versions that hold and manage their own memory:
IListStream, OListStream
* Versions that reference a fixed size external memory:
UIListStream, UOListStream
- use List storage instead of DynamicList within OListStream.
Avoids duplicate bookkeeping, more direct handling of resizing.
- makes it accessible for containers that manage their own storage
and derive directly from UList.
- DynamicList::min_size() method to access the corresponding
SizeMin template parameter.
- ensure consistency in the reserve size for the constructor
DynamicList<..> lst(N);
now has identical sizing as
DynamicList<..> lst();
reserve(N);
- Arrhenius viscocity model for incompressible viscocity.
- energyTransport FO for incompressible single and multiple phase
flows and viscousDissipation fvOption source.
- Tutorial to show the use of energyTransport:
multiphase/multiphaseInterFoam/laminar/mixerVessel2D
- Tutorial to show viscousDissipation:
compressible/rhoPimpleFoam/RAS/TJunction
