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Two-phase flow physics
Posted May 14, 2013, 3:54 p.m. EDT Fluid & Heat, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) 0 Replies
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I have experience dealing with CFD problems with the finite volume method. I use my own code, starccm+ and openFOAM very often.
I am trying to make some animations with a multiphase flow for the breaking dam problem (a tutorial from openFOAM). I find very difficult to convergence these solutions and almost random. (The problems divergences easily)
www.openfoam.org/docs/user/damBreak.php a example of the tutorial
Notes:
- I can only convergence if the mesh is triangular, if I used mapped grid it never convergences.
- The gravity must be used with a ramp function in time.
- I used pressure constrain point and bernoulli function for the initial value of pressure.
- I added a outlet in small portion of the square doamin bottom (case without obstacle). When the water falls in this boundary it just bounces back. I tried the very options of outlet for testing. Sometimes this case divergences before the water even reaches the outlet boundary.
- I reduced sometimes the discretization for P1+P1 but does not seem to solve the problem (as better convergence properties).
- I refine the mesh everywhere for a case that worked previously and the case divergences during computation.
Does anyone have similar difficulties? This physics seems to work only for the tutorial case. I need some advice on this model with comsol.
Hello Duarte Albuquerque
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