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Accurate inflow/outflow calculation

Posted 16.11.2014, 11:40 GMT-5 Fluid & Heat, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Results & Visualization Version 4.4 2 Replies

John
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Hi, I'm using the Free&Porous workflow, but the question is also applicable to Navier-Stokes.

I have an inlet and use NormalVelocity boundary condition which, it seems sets up a Lagrange multiplier to enforce u = u_0. No problem.

But when I do an integral over the inlet surface to check that total fluid-in matches the desired actual fluid in, then I have a big error (>20%). Yes, I could mesh more finely....

But I thought I remember a "trick" for accurate calculations of flow across a surface. Isn't this equal to a Lagrange multiplier or something? Maybe I am misremembering.

Does this ring a bell with anyone??

Thanks, John
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Jeff Hiller COMSOL Employee

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Posted: 10 years ago 17.11.2014, 09:05 GMT-5
Hi John,
Maybe this is the technique you remember: www.comsol.com/support/knowledgebase/973/
Best,
Jeff
Hi John, Maybe this is the technique you remember: http://www.comsol.com/support/knowledgebase/973/ Best, Jeff
John
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Posted: 10 years ago 20.11.2014, 12:03 GMT-5
Thanks, yes, Jeff, this was what I had in mind. My problem is linear. If I use velocity constraint on u in the fp interface then [I think] this is established as Dirichlet u = u0.

To type in some exemplary values

computed surface integral of fp.U across inlet = 0.006 m^3/s
computed integral of fp.U0 = 0.007 m^3/s
computed inlet pressure is 500psi

So that raises the fun question of whether the infinitely converged answer for the pressure drop would be 500 * 0.007/0.006

If so, then I can simply do nothing! :-)

Alternatively, if I choose Dirichlet on p=500 then I get computed surface integral on fp.U of 0.006 m^3/s so I don't know that I've got anything wrong.

I'll try a weak constraint on u=u0 next

Thanks, John
Thanks, yes, Jeff, this was what I had in mind. My problem is linear. If I use velocity constraint on u in the fp interface then [I think] this is established as Dirichlet u = u0. To type in some exemplary values computed surface integral of fp.U across inlet = 0.006 m^3/s computed integral of fp.U0 = 0.007 m^3/s computed inlet pressure is 500psi So that raises the fun question of whether the infinitely converged answer for the pressure drop would be 500 * 0.007/0.006 If so, then I can simply do nothing! :-) Alternatively, if I choose Dirichlet on p=500 then I get computed surface integral on fp.U of 0.006 m^3/s so I don't know that I've got anything wrong. I'll try a weak constraint on u=u0 next Thanks, John

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