Description🔗

The movingWallVelocity is a velocity boundary condition that provides a condition for cases with moving walls.

Usage🔗

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

Boundary file🔗

<patchName>
{
    type            wall;
    ...
}

Field file🔗

<patchName>
{
    // Mandatory entries
    type                    movingWallVelocity;

    // Inherited entries;
    ...
}

where:

The inherited entries are elaborated in:

• Foam::fixedValueFvPatchField

Further information🔗

Tutorial:

• $FOAM_TUTORIALS/incompressible/pimpleFoam/RAS/propeller
• $FOAM_TUTORIALS/heatTransfer/overBuoyantPimpleDyMFoam/movingBox

Source code:

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

API:

• Foam::movingWallVelocityFvPatchVectorField

History:

• Introduced in version 1.5