Description🔗

The cylindricalInletVelocity is a velocity inlet boundary condition to in cylindrical coordinates using a central axis, central point, revolutions per minute (rpm), axial and radial velocity.

Usage🔗

The condition requires entries in both the boundary and field files.

Boundary file🔗

<patchName>
{
    type            patch;
    ...
}

Field file🔗

<patchName>
{
    // Mandatory entries
    type            cylindricalInletVelocity;
    origin          <vector>;
    axis            <vector>;
    axialVelocity   <Function1<scalar>>;
    radialVelocity  <Function1<scalar>>;
    rpm             <Function1<scalar>>;

    // Inherited entries
    ...
}

where:

The inherited entries are elaborated in:

• fixedValueFvPatchFields.H
• Function1.H

Method🔗

N/A

Further information🔗

Tutorial:

• $FOAM_TUTORIALS/combustion/XiDyMFoam/annularCombustorTurbine

Source code:

• $FOAM_SRC/finiteVolume/fields/fvPatchFields/derived/cylindricalInletVelocity

API:

• Foam::cylindricalInletVelocityFvPatchVectorField

History:

• Introduced in version 1.5