Wall conditions

Boundary mesh type

Wall conditions are specified using the wall type entry in the $FOAM_CASE/constant/polyMesh/boundary file:

patchName
{
    type            wall;
    ...
}

Velocity

Available wall conditions include

• fixedNormalSlip
• movingWallVelocity
• noSlip
• partialSlip
• rotatingWallVelocity
• SRFWallVelocity
• translatingWallVelocity

Pressure

• see zeroGradient

Temperature

• adiabatic: see zero gradient
• fixed temperature: see fixed value
• fixed heat flux: see fixed gradient

Turbulence

See turbulence wall modelling

• See Reynolds Averaged Simulation
• See Detached Eddy Simulation
• See Large Eddy Simulation

Further information

Related:

• See wall distance

Source code:

• Foam::wallPolyPatch
• Foam::wallFvPatch

See also

• grpWallBoundaryConditions