Ityp = 3

Block Format Keyword This law enables to model a non-reflecting boundary (NRF). Input card is similar to /MAT/LAW11 (BOUND), but introduces two new lines to define turbulence parameters.


law11_ityp3

Format

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10)
/MAT/B-K-EPS/mat_ID/unit_ID
mat_title
ρi ρ0
Ityp Psh
Ityp =3: Non-Reflecting Boundary
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10)
c lc
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ρ0κ0 ρ0ε0 fct_IDk fct_IDe
Cμ σκ σε Pr/Prt
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Definition

Field Contents SI Unit Example
mat_ID Material identifier.

(Integer, maximum 10 digits)

unit_ID Unit identifier.

(Integer, maximum 10 digits)

mat_title Material title.

(Character, maximum 100 characters)

ρi Initial density. 3

(Real)

[kgm3]
ρ0 Reference density used in E.O.S (equation of state).

Default ρ0=ρi (Real)

[kgm3]
Ityp Boundary condition type. 1
= 0
Gas inlet (from stagnation point data)
= 1
Liquid inlet (from stagnation point data)
= 2
General inlet/outlet
= 3
Non-reflecting boundary

(Integer)

Psh Pressure shift. 2

(Real)

[Pa]
c Outlet sound speed. 1

(Real)

[ms]
lc Characteristic length. 1

(Real)

[m3]
ρ0κ0 Initial turbulent energy.

(Real)

[J]
ρ0ε0 Initial turbulent dissipation.

(Real)

[J]
fct_IDk Function fκ(t) identifier for turbulence modeling.
= 0
κ=κadjacent
> 0
κ=κ0fκ(t)

(Integer)

fct_IDe Function f ε (t) identifier for energy.
= 0
ε=εadjacent
= n
ε=ε0fε(t)

(Integer)

Cμ Turbulent viscosity coefficient.

Default = 0.09 (Real)

σκ Diffusion coefficient for k parameter.

Default = 1.00 (Real)

σε Diffusion coefficient for ε parameter.

Default = 1.30 (Real)

Pr/Prt Ratio between Laminar Prandtl number (Default 0.7) and turbulent Prandtl number (Default 0.9).

(Real)

Example (Gas)

Comments

  1. Non-Reflecting Boundary formulation is based on Bayliss & Turkel. 1 The objective is to impose a mean pressure which fluctuate with rapid variations of pressure and velocity:

    Pt=ρc(t(Vn)Vndiv(VVnn))+c(PP)2lc

    Pressure in the far field P is imposed with a function of time. The transient pressure is derived from P , the local velocity field V and the normal of the outlet facet:
    • density, energy, temperature, turbulent energy and dissipation are imposed with a function of time as in Ityp = 2
    • if the function number is 0, the neighbor element value is used to respect continuity
    • acoustic impedance will be ρc
    • typical length lc is used to relax the effective pressure towards its imposed value. It should be large compared to the highest wave length of interest in the problem. The relaxation term acts as high pass filter whose frequency cut-off is:
      fc=c4·π·lc

    Where, sound speed c and characteristic length lc are two required parameters (non zero).

  2. The Psh parameter enables shifting the output pressure which also becomes P-Psh. If using Psh=P(t=0) , the output pressure will be ΔP , with an initial value of 0.0.
  3. With thermal modeling, all thermal data ( T0,ρ0Cp , ...) can be defined with /HEAT/MAT.
  4. It is not possible to use this boundary material law with multi-material ALE /MAT/LAW37 (BIPHAS) and /MAT/LAW51 (MULTIMAT).
1
A. Bayliss, E. Turkel, "Outflow Boundary Condition for Fluid Dynamics", NASA-CR-170367, Institute for Computer Application in Science and Engineering, August 7, 1980