Commit 56546ac5 authored by Jordan Musser's avatar Jordan Musser
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Add solids thermal conductivity model options (exa/docs!137)

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@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ models. The following inputs are defined with the prefix ``solids``:
| molecular_weight                         | Value of constant solid molecular weight.                   |  Real    |  0       |
+------------------------------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------+----------+----------+
| specific_heat                            | Specify which specific heat model to use for solids.        |  String  | constant |
|                                          | use for solid.                                              |          |          |
|                                          |                                                             |          |          |
|                                          | Options:                                                    |          |          |
|                                          |                                                             |          |          |
@@ -29,7 +28,7 @@ models. The following inputs are defined with the prefix ``solids``:
| reference_temperature                    | Reference temperature used for specific enthalpy.           |  Real    |  0       |
+------------------------------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------+----------+----------+
| species                                  | Specify which species can constitute                        |  String  |  None    |
|                                          | the fluid phase [defined species must                       |          |          |
|                                          | the solids phase [defined species must                      |          |          |
|                                          | be a subset of the species.solve                            |          |          |
|                                          | arguments].                                                 |          |          |
+------------------------------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------+----------+----------+
@@ -39,6 +38,30 @@ models. The following inputs are defined with the prefix ``solids``:
+------------------------------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------+----------+----------+
| newton_solver.max_iterations             | Define max number of iterations for damped Newton solver    |  Int     |  100     |
+------------------------------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------+----------+----------+
| thermal_conductivity                     | Specify which thermal conductivity model to use for solids. |  String  | constant |
|                                          | Options:                                                    |          |          |
|                                          |                                                             |          |          |
|                                          | * ``constant`` - constant thermal conductivity              |          |          |
|                                          |                                                             |          |          |
|                                          | A thermal conductivity model is not required for solids.    |          |          |
|                                          | Defining a thermal conductivity model enables conductive    |          |          |
|                                          | heat transfer for DEM. However, it has no effect for PIC    |          |          |
|                                          | solids heat transfer.                                       |          |          |
+------------------------------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------+----------+----------+
| thermal_conductivity.constant            | Constant solids thermal conductivity value.                 |  Real    |  0       |
|                                          | A value is required for ``constant`` thermal conductivity   |          |          |
|                                          | model.                                                      |          |          |
+------------------------------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------+----------+----------+
| min_conduction_dist                      | The surface roughness separating two touching particles.    | Real     |  2.e-8   |
|                                          | This value is used to remove the singularity that the       |          |          |
|                                          | particle-fluid-particle conduction model develops at        |          |          |
|                                          | the contact interface.                                      |          |          |
+------------------------------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------+----------+----------+
| flpc                                     | The fluid lens proportionality constant (flpc) is used to   | Real     |  0.4     |
|                                          | calculate the radius of the fluid lens surrounding the      |          |          |
|                                          | particle for particle-fluid-particle conduction.            |          |          |
+------------------------------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------+----------+----------+


Below is an example for specifying the solids solver model options.