Example 57

EXAMPLE 57
2D ELASTIC REMESHING
DESCRIPTION
This example illustrates the use of the elasticity remeshing technique. The flow domain is
depicted in figure 1. It consists of 2 domains: the inner one corresponds to a fluid with a
viscosity of 1[Poises] and a density of 1 [gr/cm3], while the outer one is related to a fluid a 0.5
[Poises] for the viscosity and 1.23 [gr/cm3] for the density. The boundary set 1 represents a
rotating rod.
10 cm
SD2
SD1
6 cm

4 cm
2 cm
BS1

BS2
Interface

Fig. 1. Geometry, sub-domains, boundary sets and mesh.

KEYWORDS
remeshing technique: elastic, multi-fluid

FILENAMES
remelas2d.msh, remelas2d.dat, remelas2d.cons, remelas2d.cfx.res and remelas2d.res

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SYSTEM OF UNITS
centimeter-gram-second

MATERIAL DATA
The flow is isothermal and the physical and material properties have been chosen as follows:
Fluid 1
- constant viscosity = 1.[Poise],
- density: [g/cm3],
- inertia is taken into account,
- gravity is neglected.
Fluid 2
- constant viscosity = 0.5.[Poise],
- density: [g/cm3],
- inertia is taken into account,
- gravity is neglected.

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS
The boundary conditions are:
- BS1 (Rotating rod): Vn = 0, Vs = 10 [cm] * f(t)
with f(t) = t if t < 1 [s]
f(t) = 1 if t > 1 [s]
- BS2 (Wall): Vn = VS = 0
- Along the intersection of the sub-domains, we define a moving interface.

ELASTIC REMESHING
As we can see in figure 1, there is no regularity in the mesh and there is only 2 boundaries for
each sub-domains, therefore we must use the elastic remeshing. This remeshing technique
needs boundary conditions defined as follows:
On BS1: No displacement.
On BS2: No displacement.
On intersection between SD1 and SD2: Moving interface.
In order to use a remeshing technique such as Thompson, we ought to define, at least, 4 subdomains and 5 boundary-sets.

SPECIAL COMMENT

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This problem must be solved with a transient scheme, a steady state problem requiring a
boundary condition for the free surface or an equation expressing the mass conservation in
each sub-domain. Therefore, we will simulate the problem as far as the steady state is
reached.

POLYDATA SESSION
- Read a mesh file: remelas2d.msh
- Create a new task: F.E.M task, transient
- Create a subtask: Generalized Newtonian isothermal flow problem
Domain: S1
Material data:
Constant viscosity: 1 [Poise]
Density: 1 [gr/cm3]
Inertia taken into account.
Flow Boundary Conditions:
Along SD2: Interface
Moving interface
BS1: Vn,Vs imposed
EVOL
Vn = 0
Vs = 10 *f(t)
f(t): ramp function
a = 0.0
b = 0.0
c = 1.0
d = 1.0
EVOL
Global remeshing
Domain: SD1
Elastic remeshing
Condition on displacement along borders
Along SD2: Moving interface
BS1: No displacement
- Create a subtask: Generalized Newtonian isothermal flow problem
Domain: S2
Material data:
Constant viscosity: 0.5 [Poise]
Density: 1.23 [gr/cm3]
Inertia taken into account.
Flow Boundary Conditions:
Along SD1: Interface
Moving interface
BS2: Vn = Vs = 0
Global remeshing

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Domain: SD2
Elastic remeshing
Condition on displacement along borders
Along SD1: Moving interface
BS2: No displacement
Numerical parameters:
Transient iterative parameters:
Upper time limit: 100
Max time-step: 25
- Filename syntax:
New prefix: remelas2d
Outputs
- Default output : CFD-Post
- System of units for CFD-POST: metric_cm/g/s/A+Celsius
- listing: max.
- Save and Exit:
- mesh file:
remelas2d.msh
- data file:
remelas2d.dat
- result file:
remelas2d.res
- CFD-Post:
remelas2d.cfx.res

RUNNING POLYFLOW
The input file for POLYFLOW is 'remelas2d.dat'.
'remelas2d.res', and result files for CFD-Post.

POLYFLOW generates a result file

polyflow < remelas2d.dat > remelas2d.lst

GRAPHIC POST-PROCESSING
As we can see in the listing file, we have reach the steady state because, for the last steps, the
time-step increases until 25[s] while the last step converges with 1 iteration only and the
relative changes are of the order of magnitude of 10 -6.
The figure 2 shows the interface position and the mesh for the steady state solution (last step:
100 [s]).

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Fig. 2. Interface position (left) and mesh (right) for steady state (t = 100 [s])
The figure 3, 4 and 5 present the velocity vectors colored by the velocity magnitude, the isovalues of velocity magnitude and the iso-values of pressure respectively.

Fig. 3. Velocity vectors colored by the velocity magnitude for steady state solution.

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Fig. 4. Iso-values of velocity magnitude for steady state solution.

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Fig. 5. Iso-values of pressure for the steady state solution.

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The table 1 gives the mass conservation for the first step and for the last one. The mass
conservation is quantified by the surface of the fluid domain. At the end of the simulation,
after 47 steps, the error over the mass conservation is only 0.22% This is acceptable.
Step
Exat
1
47

Surface SD1
37.70
37.71
37.65

Error SD1 [%]

0.00%
0.03%
0.13%

Surface SD2
41.73
41.77
41.82

Error SD2 [%]

0.00%
0.10%
0.22%

Table 1. Mass balance: error over the surface of the flow domain.

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