<boundary_conditions>
This category specifies parameters for special types of boundaries.
<boundary_conditions> - <rotating>
This category contains all regions where a rotating wall velocity should be applied to the surface. It can have an arbitrary number of children named <rotating_instance>, each with the following parameters:
- <name>
- Name of the instance (optional).
- <roughness>
- Characteristic surface roughness (in
) of this boundary.Note: This value will only be effective if GLW is set as a wall model for this respective boundary.
- <rpm>
- Rotational speed of the instance in [rpm] (revolutions per minute).
- <center>
- Center of the rotation, specified via the child parameters <x_pos>, <y_pos> and <z_pos> in .
- <axis>
- Rotational axis of the instance, its direction (right-hand rule applies) must be specified via the child parameters <x_dir>, <y_dir> and <z_dir>.
- <parts>
- The parts to which the rotating wall velocity should be applied must be specified via the child parameter <name> within the <parts> category, several parts can be specified via repeated usage of <name> to assign the rotating wall velocity to all of them. The specified names must exactly match the respective part names in the STL file.
<boundary_conditions> - <belt>
This category contains all regions where a moving wall velocity should be applied to
the wind tunnel ground (if <moving_ground> is set to true,
see above), it can have an arbitrary number of children named
<belt_instance>, each with the following parameters:
- <name>
- Name of the instance (mandatory).
- <roughness>
- Characteristic surface roughness (in
) of this boundary.Note: This value will only be effective if GLW is set as a wall model for this respective boundary.
- <include_force>
- If set to true, aerodynamic forces that act on the belt instance are included in the force evaluation.
- <bounding_box>
- Bounding box of the instance, must be specified via the child parameters <x_min>, <x_max>, <y_min> and <y_max> in . The z-coordinate is omitted because the belt is always located on the wind tunnel ground.
<boundary_conditions> - <periodicity>
Via the child parameters <x_dir>,
<y_dir>, and <z_dir>, periodic
<boundary_conditions> can be activated.
Note: At least eight voxels in periodic direction have to be
used.
The default value for all three children is false.
<boundary_conditions> - <static>
This category contains all regions where a no-slip
<boundary_condition> with non-default wall model
settings should be applied to the surface. It can have an arbitrary number of
children named <static_instance>, each with the following parameters:
- <name>
- Name of the instance (optional).
- <roughness>
- Characteristic surface roughness (in
) of this boundary to be used during the calculation of the wall shear
stress. Note: This value will only be effective if GLW is set as a wall model for this respective boundary.
- <wall_model_variant>
- Name of the non-default wall model variant to be applied, must be specified in <simulation> - <wall_model_variant>.
- <parts>
- The parts to which the properties should be applied must be specified
via the child parameter <name> within the
<parts> category. Several parts can be
specified via repeated usage of <name> to assign
the properties to all of them. The specified names must match the
respective part names in the STL file.Note: Static parts use the globally specified wall model settings by default. They must be specified separately, if settings other than global settings are applied locally.