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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0003175 | OpenFOAM | Bug | public | 2019-02-21 16:53 | 2019-02-22 16:48 |
| Reporter | michael.mueller-wrd | Assigned To | henry | ||
| Priority | normal | Severity | feature | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | resolved | Resolution | fixed | ||
| Platform | Unix | OS | Other | OS Version | (please specify) |
| Fixed in Version | dev | ||||
| Summary | 0003175: externalWallHeatFluxTemperature (mode: coefficient) causes wrong results if relaxation != 1 | ||||
| Description | I am using chtMultiRegionFoam to analyze thermal conduction within solids (quite simple blockMesh case, OpenFOAM 6). At some boundaries I use externalWallHeatFluxTemperature in coefficient mode with given Ta and h (see attached sample case). Issue: If relaxation in externalWallHeatFluxTemperature is set to anything less than unity, strange results with regard to material temperatures occur. Actually, I came across this issue because my original case (using relaxation 0.99) was extremely sensitive towards grid refinement in the solids. There happened to be some kind of linear dependency of material temperatures and cell sizes (at specific case most notably for y-direction). Patch? Looking at the sources, I would presume that in line 446 of... OpenFOAM-6.0/src/TurbulenceModels/compressible/turbulentFluidThermoModels/derivedFvPatchFields/externalWallHeatFluxTemperature/externalWallHeatFluxTemperatureFvPatchScalarField.C ... there is sth missing when updating variable valueFraction(). | ||||
| Steps To Reproduce | The case attached includes relaxation 0.99 => run case as prepared, then remove relaxation line OR set relaxation to 1.00 OR use any 0<relaxation<1, re-run... (Note: I checked both serial and parallel run) | ||||
| Additional Information | > cat /proc/version Linux version 3.0.101-0.47.71-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 4.3.4 [gcc-4_3-branch revision 152973] (SUSE Linux) ) #1 SMP Thu Nov 12 12:22:22 UTC 2015 (b5b212e) > lsb_release -a LSB Version: core-2.0-noarch:core-3.2-noarch:core-4.0-noarch:core-2.0-x86_64:core-3.2-x86_64:core-4.0-x86_64:desktop-4.0-amd64:desktop-4.0-noarch:graphics-2.0-amd64:graphics-2.0-noarch:graphics-3.2-amd64:graphics-3.2-noarch:graphics-4.0-amd64:graphics-4.0-noarch Distributor ID: SUSE LINUX Description: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (x86_64) | ||||
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> ... there is sth missing when updating variable valueFraction(). What is "sth"? Could you provide the case for testing? |
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Sorry, I had prepared the test but obviously uploading didn't work... hopefully it works now. Regarding relaxation, in my understanding, you always want to update your variable with a blend of new value (times relFactor) and previous value (times 1-relFactor). Please correct me if I'm wrong... valueFraction() = relaxation_*valueFraction() + (1 - relaxation_); refValue() = relaxation_*refValue() + (1 - relaxation_)*Tp; Given the above lines, it seems that for the upper line (valueFraction) the previous value is missing so that you 'artificially' increase the update by (1-relFactor) for every time step!? |
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The valueFraction is between 0 and 1, and the valueFraction corresponding to (1 - relaxation_)*Tp is (1 - relaxation_)*1 which is (1 - relaxation_) and this "relaxes" towards the previous Tp value. |
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Thank you for your explanation! You may use the uploaded case to check the issue... |
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This should now be resolved in OpenFOAM-dev by commit 190dd33576f30ed9df4956961d62d55e310c44b1 Could you please test and report back? |
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I can confirm your patch works for my test case. Results are fine for any given relaxation. Appreciate your quick response, thanks... |
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Thanks for testing the fix. |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| 2019-02-21 16:53 | michael.mueller-wrd | New Issue | |
| 2019-02-21 17:10 | henry | Note Added: 0010316 | |
| 2019-02-22 07:33 | michael.mueller-wrd | Note Added: 0010318 | |
| 2019-02-22 08:19 | henry | Note Added: 0010319 | |
| 2019-02-22 08:33 | michael.mueller-wrd | File Added: OFcase.tgz | |
| 2019-02-22 08:34 | michael.mueller-wrd | Note Added: 0010320 | |
| 2019-02-22 12:37 | henry | Note Added: 0010321 | |
| 2019-02-22 16:13 | michael.mueller-wrd | Note Added: 0010324 | |
| 2019-02-22 16:48 | henry | Assigned To | => henry |
| 2019-02-22 16:48 | henry | Status | new => resolved |
| 2019-02-22 16:48 | henry | Resolution | open => fixed |
| 2019-02-22 16:48 | henry | Fixed in Version | => dev |
| 2019-02-22 16:48 | henry | Note Added: 0010325 |
