advectiveFvPatchField.H

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Class
    Foam::advectiveFvPatchField

Description
    Advective outflow boundary condition based on solving DDt(psi, U) = 0
    at the boundary.

    The standard (Euler, backward, CrankNicholson) time schemes are
    supported.  Additionally an optional mechanism to relax the value at
    the boundary to a specified far-field value is provided which is
    switched on by specifying the relaxation length-scale lInf and the
    far-field value fieldInf.

    The flow/wave speed at the outlet is provided by the virtual function
    advectionSpeed() the default implementation of which requires the name of
    flux field a the outlet (phi) and optionally the density (rho) if the
    mass-flux rather than the volumetric-flux is given.
    @verbatim
        outlet
        {
            type            advective;
            phi             phi;
            // rho          rho; // Not needed, phi volumetric
            // fieldInf     1e5; // Optional
            // lInf         0.1; // Optional
        }
    @endverbatim

    The flow/wave speed at the outlet can be changed by deriving a specialised
    BC fron this class and overriding advectionSpeed() e.g. in
    waveTransmissiveFvPatchField the advectionSpeed() calculates and returns
    the flow-speed plus the acoustic wave speed creating an acoustic wave
    transmissive boundary condition.

SourceFiles
    advectiveFvPatchField.C

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#ifndef advectiveFvPatchField_H
#define advectiveFvPatchField_H

#include <finiteVolume/mixedFvPatchFields.H>

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namespace Foam
{

/*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*\
                 Class advectiveFvPatch Declaration
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template<class Type>
class advectiveFvPatchField
:
    public mixedFvPatchField<Type>
{
protected:

    // Private data

        //- Name of the flux transporting the field
        word phiName_;

        //- Name of the density field used to normalise the mass flux
        //  if neccessary
        word rhoName_;

        //- Field value of the far-field
        Type fieldInf_;

        //- Relaxation length-scale
        scalar lInf_;


public:

    //- Runtime type information
    TypeName("advective");


    // Constructors

        //- Construct from patch and internal field
        advectiveFvPatchField
        (
            const fvPatch&,
            const DimensionedField<Type, volMesh>&
        );

        //- Construct from patch, internal field and dictionary
        advectiveFvPatchField
        (
            const fvPatch&,
            const DimensionedField<Type, volMesh>&,
            const dictionary&
        );

        //- Construct by mapping given advectiveFvPatchField
        //  onto a new patch
        advectiveFvPatchField
        (
            const advectiveFvPatchField<Type>&,
            const fvPatch&,
            const DimensionedField<Type, volMesh>&,
            const fvPatchFieldMapper&
        );

        //- Construct as copy
        advectiveFvPatchField
        (
            const advectiveFvPatchField&
        );

        //- Construct and return a clone
        virtual tmp<fvPatchField<Type> > clone() const
        {
            return tmp<fvPatchField<Type> >
            (
                new advectiveFvPatchField<Type>(*this)
            );
        }

        //- Construct as copy setting internal field reference
        advectiveFvPatchField
        (
            const advectiveFvPatchField&,
            const DimensionedField<Type, volMesh>&
        );

        //- Construct and return a clone setting internal field reference
        virtual tmp<fvPatchField<Type> > clone
        (
            const DimensionedField<Type, volMesh>& iF
        ) const
        {
            return tmp<fvPatchField<Type> >
            (
                new advectiveFvPatchField<Type>(*this, iF)
            );
        }


    // Member functions

        // Access

            //- Return the field at infinity
            const Type& fieldInf() const
            {
                return fieldInf_;
            }

            //- Return reference to the field at infinity to allow adjustment
            Type& fieldInf()
            {
                return fieldInf_;
            }

            //- Return the relaxation length-scale
            scalar lInf() const
            {
                return lInf_;
            }

            //- Return reference to the relaxation length-scale
            //  to allow adjustment
            scalar& lInf()
            {
                return lInf_;
            }


        // Evaluation functions

            //- Calculate and return the advection speed at the boundary
            virtual tmp<scalarField> advectionSpeed() const;

            //- Update the coefficients associated with the patch field
            virtual void updateCoeffs();


        //- Write
        virtual void write(Ostream&) const;
};


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} // End namespace Foam

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#ifdef NoRepository
#   include <finiteVolume/advectiveFvPatchField.C>
#endif

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#endif

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