I’m sorry for my ignorance; I didn’t quite grasp the meaning and physical significance of the ‘fun-avg-upup’ expression.
What is ‘uu’? I’m not sure when such parameters were set.
What is ‘fun-avg-upup’? I’m guessing based on my simulation results that it represents the time-averaged velocity fluctuation of the flow velocity component, i.e., the velocity turbulence. It should be expressed as the true velocity minus the mean velocity. I don’t quite understand why ‘uu - u*u’ matches its meaning.
Of course, it’s also possible that my understanding is completely wrong.
In the time averager plugin there are two types of expressions that can be defined: averages and functions of averages.
As per the documentation, the avg expression can be defined such as:
avg-{some name} = {some expression}
ie
avg-somefancyexpression = sqrt(0.5*rho*u*u + p)
avg-u = u
These avg expressions are evaluated and added to the accumulator every time the plugin is called.
The fun-avg expressions are functions of the averages you have defined using the names you set when you defined the averages. These are evaluated when the average files are written using the current average values.
In the default ‘tavg’ plugin settings, ‘fun-avg-upup’ is indeed defined as ’ uu - u * u ', which can be expanded as follows:
‘fun-avg-upup = (avg-uu) - (avg-u)*(avg-u)’
This can be understood as:
‘fun-avg-upup = u_instantaneous * u_instantaneous - u_average * u_average’
Is my understanding correct?
Thank you for explaining ‘functions of averages’; I’m so glad it was helpful.
However, I still don’t fully understand the physical significance of ‘fun-avg-upup’ and the significance of the letter ‘p’ in ‘upup.’ I look forward to your explanation.
Lastly, if you want to obtain the time-averaged velocity fluctuation of the flow velocity component u, its value should indeed be ‘(u_instantaneous - u_average)’.
If my reasoning is correct, then the correct expression for the time-averaged velocity fluctuation of the flow velocity component ‘u’ would be ‘fun-avg-upup / (u_instantaneous + u_average).’
Is my understanding correct?