An incompressible Casson non-Newtonian viscosity model. More...

Inheritance diagram for Casson:

Collaboration diagram for Casson:

Public Member Functions
	TypeName ("Casson")
	Runtime type information. More...

	Casson (const word &name, const dictionary &viscosityProperties, const volVectorField &U, const surfaceScalarField &phi)
	Construct from components. More...

virtual	~Casson ()
	Destructor. More...

virtual tmp< volScalarField >	nu () const
	Return the laminar viscosity. More...

virtual tmp< scalarField >	nu (const label patchi) const
	Return the laminar viscosity for patch. More...

virtual void	correct ()
	Correct the laminar viscosity. More...

virtual bool	read (const dictionary &viscosityProperties)
	Read transportProperties dictionary. More...

Public Member Functions inherited from viscosityModel
	TypeName ("viscosityModel")
	Runtime type information. More...

	declareRunTimeSelectionTable (autoPtr, viscosityModel, dictionary,(const word &name, const dictionary &viscosityProperties, const volVectorField &U, const surfaceScalarField &phi),(name, viscosityProperties, U, phi))

	viscosityModel (const word &name, const dictionary &viscosityProperties, const volVectorField &U, const surfaceScalarField &phi)
	Construct from components. More...

virtual	~viscosityModel ()
	Destructor. More...

const dictionary &	viscosityProperties () const
	Return the phase transport properties dictionary. More...

tmp< volScalarField >	strainRate () const
	Return the strain rate. More...

Additional Inherited Members
Static Public Member Functions inherited from viscosityModel
static autoPtr< viscosityModel >	New (const word &name, const dictionary &viscosityProperties, const volVectorField &U, const surfaceScalarField &phi)
	Return a reference to the selected viscosity model. More...

Protected Member Functions inherited from viscosityModel
	viscosityModel (const viscosityModel &)
	Disallow copy construct. More...

void	operator= (const viscosityModel &)
	Disallow default bitwise assignment. More...

Protected Attributes inherited from viscosityModel
word	name_

dictionary	viscosityProperties_

const volVectorField &	U_

const surfaceScalarField &	phi_

Detailed Description

An incompressible Casson non-Newtonian viscosity model.

References:

    Casson, N. (1959).
    Rheology of disperse systems.
    In Proceedings of a Conference Organized by the
    British Society of Rheology.
    Pergamon Press, New York.

    Fournier, R. L. (2011).
    Basic transport phenomena in biomedical engineering.
    CRC Press.

Example specification for blood:

     transportModel  Casson;

     CassonCoeffs
     {
         m       3.934986e-6;
         tau0    2.9032e-6;
         nuMax   13.3333e-6;
         nuMin   3.9047e-6;
     }

Source files

Definition at line 79 of file Casson.H.