Inlet conditions

Table of Contents

• Boundary mesh type
• General conditions
• Velocity conditions
• Pressure conditions
• Temperature conditions
• Turbulence conditions
• Further information

Boundary mesh type

Inlet conditions are specified using the patch type entry in the $FOAM_CASE/constant/polyMesh/boundary file:

<patchName>
{
    type            patch;
    ...
}

General conditions

• Outlet inlet

Velocity conditions

• fixed velocity: fixed value
• Flow rate
• turbulentDigitalFilterInlet
• Turbulence DF-SEM

Pressure conditions

• fixed static pressure: see fixed value
• flow inlet: see zero gradient
• Fan pressure

Temperature conditions

• fixed temperature: fixed value

Turbulence conditions

• Turbulent intensity kinetic energy
• Turbulent mixing length dissipation rate
• Turbulent mixing length frequency
• atmBoundaryLayerInletEpsilon
• atmBoundaryLayerInletK
• atmBoundaryLayerInletOmega
• atmBoundaryLayerInletVelocity
• atmBoundaryLayer

Further information

Source code:

• Foam::polyPatch
• Foam::fvPatch

See also

• Inlet