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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0000799 | OpenFOAM | Bug | public | 2013-03-25 13:55 | 2013-03-25 16:29 |
| Reporter | dkxls | Assigned To | henry | ||
| Priority | urgent | Severity | major | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | closed | Resolution | fixed | ||
| Platform | Linux 64bit | OS | OpenSUSE | OS Version | 12.2 |
| Summary | 0000799: Wrong viscosity for multiComponentMixture due to missing "+=" operator in sutherlandTransport | ||||
| Description | The mixture viscosity for a multiComponentMixture with sutherlandTransport is wrong and corresponds always to the viscosity of the first species. The error stems from the missing += operator in the sutherlandTransport class. A workaround for the problem is to replace the "+=" operator by "mixture_ = mixture_ + ..." in multiComponentMixture.C, since the "+" operator is implemented. The error obviously only occurs, if different Sutherland coefficients for each species are used. Hence the bug might be largely uncovered due to the fact that most species involving simulation use the CHEMKIN reader, which sets the Sutherland coefficients for all species to the ones of nitrogen. | ||||
| Steps To Reproduce | Any simulation with different Sutherland coefficients for each species should suffer from the bug. For easy reproduction of the bug, I attached a utility that writes out the mixture viscosity in two ways: 1) explicitly mass averaged 2) the OpenFOAM way Included in the tar.gz file are two dictionaries, one with constant and one varying Sutherland coeffs. | ||||
| Additional Information | The problem has first been reported in the cfd-online.com forum by ChrisA: http://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/openfoam-programming-development/114833-mixture-viscosity-behaving-strangely.html | ||||
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Your application does not compile in OpenFOAM-2.2.x; it is not clear which version of OpenFOAM it is written for. I have added the +=, -= and *= operators to sutherlandTransport and constTransport in OpenFOAM-2.1.x and OpenFOAM-2.2.x. Note that the current method of averaging the model coefficients is a rough approximation for transport properties and appropriate mixing rules for the specie transport properties should be applied. The new thermo structure in OpenFOAM-2.2.? will support more general mixing rules. |
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Thanks for the quick fixes. However, I'm using OpenFOAM 2.0.x and also the test utility is written for that version. Therefore, could you also push these changes to OpenFOAM 2.0.x? About the averaging method: I'm well aware of the fact that mass averaging is just a rough approximation and I have implemented already the mixture model according to Wilke's formula (viscosity) and Mathur (thermal conductivity). Though these are just implemented in my own thermo class, as it was not (easily) possible to do it in the mixture class prior to 2.2.x. Best regards, Armin |
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I would recommend that you upgrade both do get the bug fixes and to benefit from the new more flexible thermodynamics structure in OpenFOAM-2.2.?. |
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I agree that a upgrade would be beneficial, but I cannot allocate the time right now to port all of my own code to 2.2.x. Therefore I'm right now stuck with 2.0.x. However, I will do the update to 2.2.x once I have the time to go through all the changes in the new thermo classes. |
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The changes you need are also in OpenFOAM-2.1.x. |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| 2013-03-25 13:55 | dkxls | New Issue | |
| 2013-03-25 13:55 | dkxls | File Added: printGasThermoTransportProperties.tar.gz | |
| 2013-03-25 15:02 | henry | Note Added: 0002058 | |
| 2013-03-25 15:02 | henry | Status | new => resolved |
| 2013-03-25 15:02 | henry | Resolution | open => fixed |
| 2013-03-25 15:02 | henry | Assigned To | => henry |
| 2013-03-25 15:58 | dkxls | Note Added: 0002062 | |
| 2013-03-25 15:58 | dkxls | Status | resolved => feedback |
| 2013-03-25 15:58 | dkxls | Resolution | fixed => reopened |
| 2013-03-25 16:03 | henry | Note Added: 0002063 | |
| 2013-03-25 16:03 | henry | Status | feedback => closed |
| 2013-03-25 16:03 | henry | Resolution | reopened => fixed |
| 2013-03-25 16:11 | dkxls | Note Added: 0002064 | |
| 2013-03-25 16:11 | dkxls | Status | closed => feedback |
| 2013-03-25 16:11 | dkxls | Resolution | fixed => reopened |
| 2013-03-25 16:29 | henry | Note Added: 0002065 | |
| 2013-03-25 16:29 | henry | Status | feedback => closed |
| 2013-03-25 16:29 | henry | Resolution | reopened => fixed |
