April 2022 - Nektar-users - imperial.ac.uk

The usage of scalargrad module
by 张俊达 04 May '22

04 May '22

******************* This email originates from outside Imperial. Do not click on links and attachments unless you recognise the sender. If you trust the sender, add them to your safe senders list https://spam.ic.ac.uk/SpamConsole/Senders.aspx to disable email stamping for this address. ******************* Hi all: I am new to Nektar++, I have used Nektar++ to simulate a simple steady state 2-D thermal conduction problem, where I define the boundary conditions as one for temperature determination (Dirichlet conditions) and one for heat flow density determination (Neumann conditions). When I want to use the scalargrad module in fieldconvert to calculate the gradient of a boundary to get the heat flow density in where the temperature is determined. It said I need a xml file to process the fld file. I reference the “5.5.11 Extract a boundary region: extract module” in user-guide, use extract module in nekmesh to get the xml file of the boundary and get the .dat file. But the data seems wrong for the u_scalar_gradient data is same in each point and the value is the temperature value that I defined in this boundary. So could you tell me if I choose the right xml file or which operation I miss out? How can I get the gradient on the boundary or nearby? By the way, I meet the segmentation fault when I use some fieldconvert module. if there any way can help me make it report which step that occur this fault? Many thanks for your help! Best! Junda Zhang

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Nektar++ in cylindrical coordinates
by Wang, Zhicheng 24 Apr '22

24 Apr '22

******************* This email originates from outside Imperial. Do not click on links and attachments unless you recognise the sender. If you trust the sender, add them to your safe senders list https://spam.ic.ac.uk/SpamConsole/Senders.aspx to disable email stamping for this address. ******************* Dear Nektar++ users, I'm wondering if the current version Nektar++ incompressible flow solver can do simulation in cylindrical coordinates ? I found documents from the following website that shows it can, but didn't find the corresponding piece of code. https://prism.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/grocco_nektar.pdf Best regards Zhicheng Wang

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Meshing of random packed spheres
by Daniel Lester 03 Apr '22

03 Apr '22

Hi Nektar Users, I’m not a Nektar user but I am considering using this code for a project involving computation of flows across the interface of a porous medium comprised of random packed spheres (RPS) - i.e. flow within the medium, the boundary layer and the turbulent bulk. Previous finite volume models of RPS involved smoothing of the cusp-shaped geometry at the contact points between spheres. Would this geometry be feasible to mesh and run in nektar if the # of spheres was order 100's, or would this be getting too fiddly/complex? Any feedback greatly appreciated, cheers Daniel

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