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CFD and ALE Coupling to simulate a "free water surface"

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Dear forum users,

I try to simulate a water reservoir with a free water surface.
Therefore I want to couple the turbulent flow model (RANS, k-epsilon) with the ale-module.

I tried so far a bunch of approaches, but never suceeded (If i neglect the free water surface and simulate only the turbulent flow - no problem). I dont want to use the multiphase flow approach, since the moving interface needs a high vertical mesh refinement and I'm not interested in any flow simulation of air.

The following file shows my approach: ALE and Turbulent flow themselves may be solved, but whenever I couple both the solution does never converge. A simplified 2D-Model worked fine.

I hope that someone may help me. Another approach would be fine too (eg. remeshing every few seconds with a modified geometry?) .

Thank you very much!
Flo


0 Replies Last Post 7 nov. 2014, 10:10 UTC−5
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