nutUWallFunction

Description

The nutUWallFunction is boundary condition that provides a wall function for the turbulent viscosity (i.e. nut) based on velocity (i.e. U) for low- and high-Reynolds number applications.

Usage

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

Boundary file

<patchName>
{
    type            wall;
    ...
}

Field file

<patchName>
{
    // Mandatory entries
    type            nutUWallFunction;

    // Inherited entries
    ...
}

where:

Property	Description	Type	Required	Default
type	Type name: nutUWallFunction	word	yes	-

The inherited entries are elaborated in:

• nutWallFunctionFvPatchScalarField.H
• wallFunctionBlenders.H

• Suffers from non-exact restart since correctNut() (called through turbulence->validate) returns a slightly different value every time it is called. See nutUSpaldingWallFunctionFvPatchScalarField.C.

Further information

Tutorial:

• buoyantCavity

Source code:

• nutUWallFunction

API:

• Foam::nutUWallFunctionFvPatchScalarField

History: Introduced in version 2.4.0