alphaContactAngleFvPatchScalarField.H

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Class
    Foam::alphaContactAngleFvPatchScalarField

Description
    Contact-angle boundary condition for multi-phase interface-capturing
    simulations.  Used in conjunction with multiphaseMixture.

SourceFiles
    alphaContactAngleFvPatchScalarField.C

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#ifndef alphaContactAngleFvPatchScalarField_H
#define alphaContactAngleFvPatchScalarField_H

#include "zeroGradientFvPatchFields.H"
#include "multiphaseMixture.H"

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namespace Foam
{

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                  Class alphaContactAngleFvPatch Declaration
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class alphaContactAngleFvPatchScalarField
:
    public zeroGradientFvPatchScalarField
{
public:

    class interfaceThetaProps
    {
        //- Equilibrium contact angle
        scalar theta0_;

        //- Dynamic contact angle velocity scale
        scalar uTheta_;

        //- Limiting advancing contact angle
        scalar thetaA_;

        //- Limiting receding contact angle
        scalar thetaR_;


    public:

        // Constructors
            interfaceThetaProps()
            {}

            interfaceThetaProps(Istream&);


        // Member functions

            //- Return the equilibrium contact angle theta0
            scalar theta0(bool matched=true) const
            {
                if (matched) return theta0_;
                else return 180.0 - theta0_;
            }

            //- Return the dynamic contact angle velocity scale
            scalar uTheta() const
            {
                return uTheta_;
            }

            //- Return the limiting advancing contact angle
            scalar thetaA(bool matched=true) const
            {
                if (matched) return thetaA_;
                else return 180.0 - thetaA_;
            }

            //- Return the limiting receding contact angle
            scalar thetaR(bool matched=true) const
            {
                if (matched) return thetaR_;
                else return 180.0 - thetaR_;
            }


        // IO functions

            friend Istream& operator>>(Istream&, interfaceThetaProps&);
            friend Ostream& operator<<(Ostream&, const interfaceThetaProps&);
    };

    typedef HashTable
    <
        interfaceThetaProps,
        multiphaseMixture::interfacePair,
        multiphaseMixture::interfacePair::hash
    > thetaPropsTable;


private:

    // Private data

        thetaPropsTable thetaProps_;


public:

    //- Runtime type information
    TypeName("alphaContactAngle");


    // Constructors

        //- Construct from patch and internal field
        alphaContactAngleFvPatchScalarField
        (
            const fvPatch&,
            const DimensionedField<scalar, volMesh>&
        );

        //- Construct from patch, internal field and dictionary
        alphaContactAngleFvPatchScalarField
        (
            const fvPatch&,
            const DimensionedField<scalar, volMesh>&,
            const dictionary&
        );

        //- Construct by mapping given alphaContactAngleFvPatchScalarField
        //  onto a new patch
        alphaContactAngleFvPatchScalarField
        (
            const alphaContactAngleFvPatchScalarField&,
            const fvPatch&,
            const DimensionedField<scalar, volMesh>&,
            const fvPatchFieldMapper&
        );

        //- Construct and return a clone
        virtual tmp<fvPatchScalarField> clone() const
        {
            return tmp<fvPatchScalarField>
            (
                new alphaContactAngleFvPatchScalarField(*this)
            );
        }

        //- Construct as copy setting internal field reference
        alphaContactAngleFvPatchScalarField
        (
            const alphaContactAngleFvPatchScalarField&,
            const DimensionedField<scalar, volMesh>&
        );

        //- Construct and return a clone setting internal field reference
        virtual tmp<fvPatchScalarField> clone
        (
            const DimensionedField<scalar, volMesh>& iF
        ) const
        {
            return tmp<fvPatchScalarField>
            (
                new alphaContactAngleFvPatchScalarField(*this, iF)
            );
        }


    // Member functions

        //- Return the contact angle properties
        const thetaPropsTable& thetaProps() const
        {
            return thetaProps_;
        }

        //- Write
        virtual void write(Ostream&) const;
};


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} // End namespace Foam

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#endif

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