Blended turbulence viscosity

Table of Contents

• Properties
• Usage
• Further information

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Properties

• Continuous wall function that blends contributions from the viscous sub-layer and logarithmic regions

  \[ u_\tau = \left(u_{\tau,sub}^4 + u_{\tau,log}^4 \right)^{0.25} \]

Usage

The wall function is specified using:

wallPatch
{
    type            nutUBlendedWallFunction;
    value           XXX;
}

Further information

Source code:

• Foam::nutUBlendedWallFunctionFvPatchScalarField

References:

• Automatic wall treatment: Menter and Esch [51]

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