BirdCarreau Class Reference

An incompressible Bird-Carreau non-Newtonian viscosity model. More...

Inheritance diagram for BirdCarreau:

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Public Member Functions
	TypeName ("BirdCarreau")
	Runtime type information. More...
	BirdCarreau (const word &name, const dictionary &viscosityProperties, const volVectorField &U, const surfaceScalarField &phi)
	Construct from components. More...
	~BirdCarreau ()
	Destructor. More...
tmp< volScalarField >	nu () const
	Return the laminar viscosity. More...
tmp< scalarField >	nu (const label patchi) const
	Return the laminar viscosity for patch. More...
void	correct ()
	Correct the laminar viscosity. More...
bool	read (const dictionary &viscosityProperties)
	Read transportProperties dictionary. More...
Public Member Functions inherited from viscosityModel
	TypeName ("viscosityModel")
	Runtime type information. More...
	declareRunTimeSelectionTable (autoPtr, viscosityModel, dictionary,(const word &name, const dictionary &viscosityProperties, const volVectorField &U, const surfaceScalarField &phi),(name, viscosityProperties, U, phi))
	viscosityModel (const word &name, const dictionary &viscosityProperties, const volVectorField &U, const surfaceScalarField &phi)
	Construct from components. More...
virtual	~viscosityModel ()
	Destructor. More...
const dictionary &	viscosityProperties () const
	Return the phase transport properties dictionary. More...
tmp< volScalarField >	strainRate () const
	Return the strain rate. More...

Private Member Functions
tmp< volScalarField >	calcNu () const
	Calculate and return the laminar viscosity. More...

Private Attributes
dictionary	BirdCarreauCoeffs_
dimensionedScalar	nu0_
dimensionedScalar	nuInf_
dimensionedScalar	k_
dimensionedScalar	n_
dimensionedScalar	a_
volScalarField	nu_

Additional Inherited Members
Static Public Member Functions inherited from viscosityModel
static autoPtr< viscosityModel >	New (const word &name, const dictionary &viscosityProperties, const volVectorField &U, const surfaceScalarField &phi)
	Return a reference to the selected viscosity model. More...
Protected Member Functions inherited from viscosityModel
	viscosityModel (const viscosityModel &)
	Disallow copy construct. More...
void	operator= (const viscosityModel &)
	Disallow default bitwise assignment. More...
Protected Attributes inherited from viscosityModel
word	name_
dictionary	viscosityProperties_
const volVectorField &	U_
const surfaceScalarField &	phi_

Detailed Description

An incompressible Bird-Carreau non-Newtonian viscosity model.

The Bird-Carreau-Yasuda form is also supported if the optional "a" coefficient is specified. "a" defaults to 2 for the Bird-Carreau model.

Source files

• BirdCarreau.H
• BirdCarreau.C

Definition at line 55 of file BirdCarreau.H.

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

BirdCarreau()

BirdCarreau	(	const word &	name,
		const dictionary &	viscosityProperties,
		const volVectorField &	U,
		const surfaceScalarField &	phi
	)

Construct from components.

Definition at line 62 of file BirdCarreau.C.

~BirdCarreau()

~BirdCarreau ( )

inline

Destructor.

Definition at line 97 of file BirdCarreau.H.

Member Function Documentation

calcNu()

Foam::tmp< Foam::volScalarField > calcNu ( ) const

private

Calculate and return the laminar viscosity.

Definition at line 50 of file BirdCarreau.C.

References BirdCarreau::a_, BirdCarreau::k_, BirdCarreau::n_, BirdCarreau::nu0_, BirdCarreau::nuInf_, Foam::pow(), and viscosityModel::strainRate().

Referenced by BirdCarreau::correct().

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TypeName()

TypeName

(

"BirdCarreau"

)

Runtime type information.

nu() [1/2]

tmp<volScalarField> nu ( ) const

inlinevirtual

Return the laminar viscosity.

Implements viscosityModel.

Definition at line 104 of file BirdCarreau.H.

References BirdCarreau::nu_.

nu() [2/2]

tmp<scalarField> nu ( const label  patchi ) const

inlinevirtual

Return the laminar viscosity for patch.

Implements viscosityModel.

Definition at line 110 of file BirdCarreau.H.

References GeometricField::boundaryField(), BirdCarreau::nu_, and patchi.

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correct()

void correct ( )

inlinevirtual

Correct the laminar viscosity.

Implements viscosityModel.

Definition at line 116 of file BirdCarreau.H.

References BirdCarreau::calcNu(), and BirdCarreau::nu_.

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read()

bool read ( const dictionary &  viscosityProperties )

virtual

Read transportProperties dictionary.

Implements viscosityModel.

Definition at line 101 of file BirdCarreau.C.

References Foam::dimless, dictionary::lookup(), viscosityModel::read(), and dictionary::subDict().

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Field Documentation

BirdCarreauCoeffs_

dictionary BirdCarreauCoeffs_

private

Definition at line 61 of file BirdCarreau.H.

nu0_

dimensionedScalar nu0_

private

Definition at line 63 of file BirdCarreau.H.

Referenced by BirdCarreau::calcNu().

nuInf_

dimensionedScalar nuInf_

private

Definition at line 64 of file BirdCarreau.H.

Referenced by BirdCarreau::calcNu().

k_

dimensionedScalar k_

private

Definition at line 65 of file BirdCarreau.H.

Referenced by BirdCarreau::calcNu().

n_

dimensionedScalar n_

private

Definition at line 66 of file BirdCarreau.H.

Referenced by BirdCarreau::calcNu().

a_

dimensionedScalar a_

private

Definition at line 67 of file BirdCarreau.H.

Referenced by BirdCarreau::calcNu().

nu_

volScalarField nu_

private

Definition at line 69 of file BirdCarreau.H.

Referenced by BirdCarreau::correct(), and BirdCarreau::nu().

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The documentation for this class was generated from the following files:

• src/transportModels/incompressible/viscosityModels/BirdCarreau/BirdCarreau.H
• src/transportModels/incompressible/viscosityModels/BirdCarreau/BirdCarreau.C