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LES with a wall-function

Posted: Wed May 26, 2021 7:49 pm
by xiaoxue123
Dear forum,

I'm running a LES.

I read from https://www.code-saturne.org/cms/sites/ ... e-Wall.pdf in the last paragraph that "This is the reason why Code_Saturne activates a wall-function by default for LES. If the mesh is fine enough, its influence vanishes and the LES becomes a direct numerical simulation."

Is there any way to check whether or not my LES simulation has activated the wall function by default? My mesh has a y+ lower than one, x+ and z+ low than 40 and 20, respectively.

Best regards,
Xiaoxue

Re: LES with a wall-function

Posted: Thu May 27, 2021 2:47 pm
by Ruonan
Hi Xiaoxue,

As far as I know, it can be found in the setup.log file, shown below. I think in Code_Saturne LES, the one scale log-law wall function is used by default. I suppose your meshes are fine enough, so the momentum wall function and thermal wall function are the viscous sublayer ones.
LES wall function.png
Best regards,
Ruonan

Re: LES with a wall-function

Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2021 5:37 pm
by xiaoxue123
Thanks, I found iwallf in my simulation is 0.