Description🔗

The compressible::thermalShell is a boundary condition that provides a coupled temperature condition between a primary region (3D mesh) and a thermal shell model (2D mesh).

The primary region boundary creates the finite area region and evolves its energy equation.

Usage🔗

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

Boundary file🔗

<patchName>
{
    type            patch;
    ...
}

Field file🔗

<patchName>
{
    // Mandatory entries
    type            thermalShell;

    // Inherited entries
    ...
}

where:

The inherited entries are elaborated in:

• fixedValueFvPatchField.H
• thermalShellModel.H

Further information🔗

Tutorial:

• $FOAM_TUTORIALS/heatTransfer/buoyantPimpleFoam/hotRoomWithThermalShell

Source code:

• $FOAM_SRC/regionFaModels/derivedFvPatchFields/thermalShell

API:

• Foam::compressible::thermalShellFvPatchScalarField

History:

• Introduced in version v1906