Description🔗

The convectiveHeatTransfer is a boundary condition that provides a convective heat transfer coefficient condition:

• If \(Re > 500000\): \(h_p = \frac{0.664 \mathrm{Re}^{0.5} \mathrm{Pr}^{0.333} \kappa_p}{L}\)
• Else: \(h_p = \frac{0.037 \mathrm{Re}^{0.8} \mathrm{Pr}^{0.333} \kappa_p}{L}\)

where:

Usage🔗

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

Boundary file🔗

<patchName>
{
    type            patch;
    ...
}

Field file🔗

<patchName>
{
    // Mandatory entries
    type            convectiveHeatTransfer;
    L               <scalar>;

    // Inherited entries
    ...
}

where:

The inherited entries are elaborated in:

• fixedValueFvPatchField.H

Further information🔗

Tutorial:

• $FOAM_TUTORIALS/lagrangian/reactingParcelFoam/hotBoxes

Source code:

• $FOAM_SRC/thermoTools/derivedFvPatchFields/convectiveHeatTransfer

API:

• Foam::compressible::convectiveHeatTransferFvPatchScalarField

History:

• Introduced in version 2206