Eduard Puig Montella, C. Bonamy, J. Chauchat, T.‐J. Hsu
{"title":"Implementing moving object capability in a two-phase Eulerian model for sediment transport applications","authors":"Eduard Puig Montella, C. Bonamy, J. Chauchat, T.‐J. Hsu","doi":"10.51560/ofj.v4.119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51560/ofj.v4.119","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents the validation of a modified 6DoF solver which includes the contribution of particle forces on rigid objects. The solver is an extension of sedFoam, employed for a wide range of sediment transport applications. The first validation consists in a simple case of a sphere freely falling in a pure fluid. Then, the same sphere is submerged in a fluid with suspended particles. The next step involves placing a granular bed under the sphere to study its arrest due to particle-particle interactions. Lastly, the trajectory of a cylinder immersed in a uniform granular flow is studied to emphasize the lift and drag forces exerted by the particle phase on the solid object. Results show that overSedDyMFoam accurately reproduces experimental/numerical measurements successfully capturing the behavior of solid objects subjected to granular and fluid forces. This implementation is a significant step towards understanding complex interactions between fluid, particles, and structures.","PeriodicalId":493547,"journal":{"name":"OpenFOAM® Journal","volume":"80 24","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140676868","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bjørn Christian Dueholm, Jesper de Claville Christiansen, B. Endelt, Nikolaj Kristensen, J. Hærvig
{"title":"Implementation of a VoF solver with phase change for the simulation of internal cavitation and droplet breakup in injectors","authors":"Bjørn Christian Dueholm, Jesper de Claville Christiansen, B. Endelt, Nikolaj Kristensen, J. Hærvig","doi":"10.51560/ofj.v4.111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51560/ofj.v4.111","url":null,"abstract":"This study presents the implementation and derivation of a Volume of Fluid (VoF) solver capable of taking into account pressure driven phase change and handle three fluids. The implemented code is designed to investigate internal nozzle cavitation and subsequent injection and jet breakup. An extended cavitation model is also implemented that can handle phase change in the presence of a third phase. Detailed description and derivation of the mathematical system is presented. The solver is validated on a one-dimensional benchmark case from the literature and verified on an experimentally well-documented geometry. The verification shows the developing cavitation regime is well captured by comparing velocity profiles and flow images with experimental measurements and visualisation.","PeriodicalId":493547,"journal":{"name":"OpenFOAM® Journal","volume":"35 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140732374","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Karim Ahmed, Ahmed A. Hamada, Ludovic Chatellier, Mirjam Furth
{"title":"Modified Overset Method in OpenFOAM for Simultaneous Motion and Deformation: A Case Study of a Flexible Flapping Foil","authors":"Karim Ahmed, Ahmed A. Hamada, Ludovic Chatellier, Mirjam Furth","doi":"10.51560/ofj.v4.96","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51560/ofj.v4.96","url":null,"abstract":"The influence of wing deformation in animal propulsion and motion is an intriguing phenomenon that has contributed to a growing interest in biomimetics in both academia and industry. The study focuses on developing a robust numerical tool for analyzing the motion of biological systems in fluid flows, crucial to understanding fluid-structure interaction (FSI) phenomena. The research introduces a new mesh deformation solver, dynamicOversetZoneFvMesh, designed to address limitations in OpenFOAM's conventional Overset method. This solver enables the application of both rigid body motion and deformation at specified patches within certain zones, allowing for more complex motion scenarios. Through meticulous verification, parallelization, validation, and mesh convergence studies, the modified Overset solver's reliability is confirmed. Two cases are examined: a rigid-body flapping foil and a flexible foil with leading-edge deformation. Results demonstrate the adapted solver's proficiency in managing complex fluid dynamics and accommodating simultaneous motion and deformation. Furthermore, the study reveals that leading-edge flexibility improves the power extraction efficiency of flapping foils, aligning with previous literature. Overall, the research lays the foundation for advancing FSI simulations and opens avenues for addressing previously challenging problems in the field.","PeriodicalId":493547,"journal":{"name":"OpenFOAM® Journal","volume":"308 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140754438","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Verification and Validation of the Spalart Allmaras Model with Rotation and Curvature Correction for Incompressible and Compressbile Flows","authors":"Michael Alletto","doi":"10.51560/ofj.v3.97","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51560/ofj.v3.97","url":null,"abstract":"The Spalart-Allmaras turbulence model is the model which gets the highest technological readiness level in the NASA turbulence model resource home page. The model is widely used to predict external incompressible and compressbile flows. Different corrections to this model incorporating additional physical effects are presented on the same home page. Unfortunately none of these corrections are available in the official OpenFOAM version. Furthermore, no publicly available repository which contains the full set of corrections suggested by Shur et al. [1] to account for curvature and rotation effects was found. In this technical note, the rotation and streamline curvature correction is incorporated into the Spalart-Allmaras model in order to overcome this limitation. The same equations as suggested in Shur et al. [1] are implemented and verified by means of the incompressible flow in a rotating channel, a 2D bump flow in a channel and a channel flow exhibiting a U-turn. Regarding the rotating channel flow and the flow in a U-turn some quantitative differences remain with respect to the results of Shur et al. [1]. For the rotating channel flow, a careful consistency check with respect to the analytical relations leading to the computation of the factor multiplied with the production term was made. No inconsistencies in the implementation where found. Unfortunately the exact reason for the differences between the present results compared to the computations of Shur et al. [1], was not found. The interested readers are encouraged to help to clarify these issues. In the fourth test case it is shown that the model predicts a more correct turbulent viscosity distribution in the transonic flow around a delta wing. Applying the streamline and curvature corrections to the Spalart-Allmaras model predicts an earlier vortex breakdown compared to the standard Spalart-Allmaras model for a high angle of attack configuration. The agreement with the reference experiments is much better when using the corrections proposed by Shur et al. [1] to the Spalart-Allmaras compared to the standard Splart-Allmaras model.","PeriodicalId":493547,"journal":{"name":"OpenFOAM® Journal","volume":"65 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135724585","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}