Cavity Pressure Action

Description

The CavityPressure Action system is used to calculate the pressure from an ideal gas trapped within an internal volume.

The pressure in the cavity is computed based on the ideal gas law, (1) where is the internal pressure, is the moles of gas, is the ideal gas constant, is the temperature, and is the volume of the cavity.

The moles of gas, the temperature, and the cavity volume in Eq. (1) are free to change with time. The moles of gas at any time is the original amount of gas (computed based on original pressure, temperature, and volume) plus the amount in the cavity due to any gas injected during the simulation.

Constructed MooseObjects

The Cavity Pressure Action system consists of three separate actions, listed in the Associated Actions block below, which are all created within the same block.

Table 1: Correspondence Among Action Functionality and MooseObjects for the CavityPressure Action

FunctionalityReplaced ClassesAssociated Parameters
Calculation of the initial moles quantityCavityPressureUserObjectvolume: the name of the internal volume postprocessor
R: the universal gas constant
temperature : the name of the average temperature postprocessor
Store the value of the initial molesCavityPressurePostprocessoroutput_initial_moles: the postprocessor name to used to report the initial moles of gas
Calculation of the current internal pressureCavityPressureUserObjectoutput: the name of the cavity pressure postprocessor
Store the internal pressure valueCavityPressurePostprocessoroutput: the name of the cavity pressure postprocessor
Apply the calculated internal pressure tractionPressureboundary: the list of boundary IDs to which the pressure should be applied
displacements : a string of the displacement variables to which the Pressure BC should be applied

Example Input Syntax

[./CavityPressure]
  [./1]
    boundary = 100
    initial_pressure = 100
    material_input = materialInput
    R = 8.314472
    temperature = aveTempInterior
    volume = internalVolume
    startup_time = 0.5
    output = ppress
    save_in = 'pressure_residual_x pressure_residual_y pressure_residual_z'
  [../]
[../]
(../moose/modules/combined/test/tests/cavity_pressure/3d.i)

Postprocessors for both the average temperature and the internal volume are also required for the Cavity Pressure Action system. Note that the name of the postprocessors correspond to the arguments for the parameters temperature and internal_volume in the CavityPressure block.

[./aveTempInterior]
  type = SideAverageValue
  boundary = 100
  variable = temp
  execute_on = 'initial linear'
[../]
(../moose/modules/combined/test/tests/cavity_pressure/3d.i)
[./internalVolume]
  type = InternalVolume
  boundary = 100
  execute_on = 'initial linear'
[../]
(../moose/modules/combined/test/tests/cavity_pressure/3d.i)

Input Parameters

  • boundaryThe list of boundary IDs from the mesh where the pressure will be applied

    C++ Type:std::vector<BoundaryName>

    Controllable:No

    Description:The list of boundary IDs from the mesh where the pressure will be applied

  • displacementsThe nonlinear displacement variables

    C++ Type:std::vector<VariableName>

    Controllable:No

    Description:The nonlinear displacement variables

Required Parameters

  • active__all__ If specified only the blocks named will be visited and made active

    Default:__all__

    C++ Type:std::vector<std::string>

    Controllable:No

    Description:If specified only the blocks named will be visited and made active

  • control_tagsAdds user-defined labels for accessing object parameters via control logic.

    C++ Type:std::vector<std::string>

    Controllable:No

    Description:Adds user-defined labels for accessing object parameters via control logic.

  • inactiveIf specified blocks matching these identifiers will be skipped.

    C++ Type:std::vector<std::string>

    Controllable:No

    Description:If specified blocks matching these identifiers will be skipped.

  • outputThe name to use for the cavity pressure value

    C++ Type:std::string

    Controllable:No

    Description:The name to use for the cavity pressure value

  • save_inAuxiliary variables to save the displacement residuals

    C++ Type:std::vector<AuxVariableName>

    Controllable:No

    Description:Auxiliary variables to save the displacement residuals

  • use_automatic_differentiationFalseFlag to use automatic differentiation (AD) objects when possible

    Default:False

    C++ Type:bool

    Controllable:No

    Description:Flag to use automatic differentiation (AD) objects when possible

  • use_displaced_meshTrueWhether to use displaced mesh in the boundary condition

    Default:True

    C++ Type:bool

    Controllable:No

    Description:Whether to use displaced mesh in the boundary condition

Optional Parameters

Associated Actions

Available Actions