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  • October 1, 2020 at 2:08 pm #5199
    vinhvu1995
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    Hi,

    I’ve been trying to implement a wall function bc for an empty channel and I think I’ve done it incorrectly so I’m hoping someone will help me. So far, I’ve tried to initialise the wallFunctionParam, then plug it into the addWallFunctionBoundary like so

    struct wallFunctionParam<T> wallFunctionParam = {};
    bc.addWallFunctionBoundary( superGeometry, 5, converter, wallFunctionParam);

    This doesn’t work however and crashes when it tries to prepare the lattice. Is there anything else I need to do to get this working?

    Cheers,
    Vinh

    October 12, 2020 at 9:20 am #5223
    Marc
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    Dear Vinh,
    at the moment we don’t have a suitable example to show the working principle of the wall function. We will include a helpful example in the next release. Here is a step by step summary how to use the wall function:
    1. you need a suitable Descriptor e.g.

    #define DESCRIPTOR WallFunctionForcedD3Q19Descriptor

    2. Then you should define your wallfunction parameter:

    /* Used method for density reconstruction
    * 0: Zou-He
    * 1: extrapolation
    * 2: constant
    */
    int rhoMethod = 0;

    /* Used method for non-equilibrium particle distribution reconstruction
    * 0: regularized NEBB (Latt)
    * 1: extrapolation NEQ (Guo Zhaoli)
    * 2: regularized second order finite Differnce
    * 3: equilibrium scheme
    */
    int fneqMethod = 3;

    /* Used wall profile
    * 0: Musker profile
    * 1: power law profile
    */
    int wallProfile = 0;

    /// special formulation for straight boundaries
    bool curved = false;

    /// use van Driest damping function in boundary cell
    bool useVanDriest = true;

    /// von Karman constant for van Driest model
    T vonKarman = 0.375;

    wallFunctionParam<T> wallFunctionParam;
    wallFunctionParam.curved = curved;
    wallFunctionParam.bodyForce = true;
    wallFunctionParam.wallProfile = wallProfile;
    wallFunctionParam.rhoMethod = rhoMethod;
    wallFunctionParam.fneqMethod = fneqMethod;
    wallFunctionParam.latticeWalldistance = latticeWalldistance;
    wallFunctionParam.vonKarman = vonKarman;

    3. define a suitable Dynamics on your wall function boundary

    ExternalTauEffLESForcedBGKdynamics<T, DESCRIPTOR> boundaryDynamics (converter.getLatticeRelaxationFrequency(), instances::getBulkMomenta<T,DESCRIPTOR>());

    In Prepare Lattice

    sLattice.defineDynamics(superGeometry, 2, &boundaryDynamics);
    sBC.addWallFunctionBoundary(superGeometry, 2, converter, wallFunctionParam);

    I hope this helps you!

    Best,
    Marc

    October 14, 2020 at 2:18 pm #5232
    vinhvu1995
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    Hi Marc,

    Thanks for the summary, it did help me a lot. I think I nearly got it all working now, but I’m having an issue with the WallFunctionForcedD3Q19Descriptor. For some reason I can’t compile my code with that specific descriptor. I get the following error

    
error: ‘opposite’ is not a member of ‘olb::descriptors::D3Q19<olb::descriptors::AV_SHEAR, olb::descriptors::TAU_W, olb::descriptors::TAU_EFF, olb::descriptors::FORCE, olb::descriptors::V12>’

    If I chose a different descriptor (say D3Q19), then it compiles fine, but it will produce a segmentation error, presumably because the wall function boundary is not working properly without the proper descriptor. Is there something I’m missing with the wall function descriptor?

    Cheers,
    Vinh

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    October 19, 2020 at 10:13 am #5235
    Marc
    Participant

    Hey Vinh,

    it seems that there is an old function call in the src/boundary/wallFunctionBoundaryPostProcessors3D.hh file. Please replace the erroneus line 710 with
    fneq_bc[normalInwardsIndices[fIndex]] = fneq_bc[util::opposite<DESCRIPTOR>(normalInwardsIndices[fIndex])];
    This should compile.

    Best Marc

    October 26, 2020 at 5:10 pm #5251
    vinhvu1995
    Participant

    Hi Marc,

    Thanks for the reply, I’ve replaced the erroneous line and I still cannot compile my code. This is the error I get 

    src/boundary/wallFunctionBoundaryPostProcessors3D.hh: In member function ‘void olb::WallFunctionBoundaryProcessor3D<T, DESCRIPTOR>::computeFneqRNEBB(olb::Cell<T, DESCRIPTOR>&, T*, T, T*)’:
/src/boundary/wallFunctionBoundaryPostProcessors3D.hh:711:96: error: no matching function for call to ‘opposite(__gnu_cxx::__alloc_traits<std::allocator<int>, int>::value_type&)’
  711 |     fneq_bc[normalInwardsIndices[fIndex]] = fneq_bc[util::opposite(normalInwardsIndices[fIndex])];
      |                                                                                                ^
In file included src/dynamics/dynamics.h:32,
                 /src/boundary/boundaryCondition3D.h:31,
                 src/boundary/boundary3D.h:28,
                 src/olb3D.h:1,
                 from array.cpp:7:
src/core/util.h:193:47: note: candidate: ‘template<class DESCRIPTORBASE> int olb::util::opposite(int)’
  193 | template <typename DESCRIPTORBASE> inline int opposite(int iPop)
      |                                               ^~~~~~~~
src/core/util.h:193:47: note:   template argument deduction/substitution failed:
In file included from src/boundary/boundary3D.hh:42,
                 from src/olb3D.hh:1,
                 from array.cpp:9:
src/boundary/wallFunctionBoundaryPostProcessors3D.hh:711:96: note:   couldn’t deduce template parameter ‘DESCRIPTORBASE’
  711 |     fneq_bc[normalInwardsIndices[fIndex]] = fneq_bc[util::opposite(normalInwardsIndices[fIndex])];
      |

    I guess the next release has the updated code which should fix the problems. Do you think it be better if I waited for the next release?

    Cheers,
    Vinh

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    October 30, 2020 at 12:39 pm #5258
    Marc
    Participant

    Hey Vinh,

    please look carefully at the error message again:
    You get the error for the following code line:
    fneq_bc[normalInwardsIndices[fIndex]] = fneq_bc[util::opposite(normalInwardsIndices[fIndex])];

    I told you to replace it by
    fneq_bc[normalInwardsIndices[fIndex]] = fneq_bc[util::opposite<DESCRIPTOR>(normalInwardsIndices[fIndex])];

    Could it be that you leave the template argument <DESCRIPTOR>, which causes the error? In some weeks we will have a new release with a working example of the turbulent channel flow.

    Best Marc

    November 6, 2020 at 1:13 pm #5272
    vinhvu1995
    Participant

    Hey Marc,

    Sorry for that mistake! I have no idea how I managed to do that. Everything is working fine now! I’m currently running a few test cases with the wall function boundary on and everything seems to work fine. For some reason, the simulation diverges whenever I use a MPI but I think I can work out what’s causing the problem.

    Cheers,
    Vinh

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