<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div>Dear Paul </div><div><br class=""></div><div>thank you so much for your help !</div><div>I am looking forward to see your example, it will be of great help !</div><div><br class=""></div><div>could you tell me something more about the recycling BC as well ?</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Thank you again for your help </div><div>Agnese</div><div><br class=""></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; 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margin: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(127, 127, 127);" class=""><b class="">Subject:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Re: [Nek5000-users] double mesh ?</b><br class=""></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(127, 127, 127);" class=""><b class="">Date:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">January 16, 2017 at 4:05:21 PM GMT+1<br class=""></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(127, 127, 127);" class=""><b class="">To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">"<a href="mailto:nek5000-users@lists.mcs.anl.gov" class="">nek5000-users@lists.mcs.anl.gov</a>" <<a href="mailto:nek5000-users@lists.mcs.anl.gov" class="">nek5000-users@lists.mcs.anl.gov</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(127, 127, 127);" class=""><b class="">Reply-To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="mailto:nek5000-users@lists.mcs.anl.gov" class="">nek5000-users@lists.mcs.anl.gov</a><br class=""></span></div><br class=""><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; direction: ltr; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;" class="">Dear Agnese,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Sorry for the long delay in answering this question. The issue is that in fact it is possible</div><div class="">(and used to be a supported but rarely used feature). The challenge, however, is how to</div><div class="">make it relatively easy in the context of the current setup for a variety of applications.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Nek supports a different gather-scatter handle for each field (velocity, temperature, passive</div><div class="">scalar, etc.)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We have a handle that allows the user access to the connectivity list, which would give</div><div class="">you an opportunity to "disconnect" the periodic faces for the temperature array.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I'll try to code up an example for the case of channel flow with a mesh generated by</div><div class="">genbox and post it shortly.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Incidentally, an alternative approach that we often use for more complex domains</div><div class="">would be to use a recycling boundary condition. I think it would not be as efficient,</div><div class="">however, as periodicity for the case that you propose.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Once again, apologies for the delayed response.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Paul</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px;" class=""><hr tabindex="-1" class=""><div id="divRpF470953" style="direction: ltr;" class=""><font face="Tahoma" size="2" class=""><b class="">From:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:nek5000-users-bounces@lists.mcs.anl.gov" class="">nek5000-users-bounces@lists.mcs.anl.gov</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[<a href="mailto:nek5000-users-bounces@lists.mcs.anl.gov" class="">nek5000-users-bounces@lists.mcs.anl.gov</a>] on behalf of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:nek5000-users@lists.mcs.anl.gov" class="">nek5000-users@lists.mcs.anl.gov</a>[<a href="mailto:nek5000-users@lists.mcs.anl.gov" class="">nek5000-users@lists.mcs.anl.gov</a>]<br class=""><b class="">Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Thursday, December 22, 2016 4:38 AM<br class=""><b class="">To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:nek5000-users@lists.mcs.anl.gov" class="">nek5000-users@lists.mcs.anl.gov</a><br class=""><b class="">Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[Nek5000-users] double mesh ?<br class=""></font><br class=""></div><div class=""></div><div class="">Hi<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">i am quite new, so i’m sorry if i’m getting things wrong.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I am trying to simulate a turbulent channel flow, with a passive scalar. </div><div class="">in the streamwise direction, i would like to impose periodic boundary conditions for the flow, and non-periodic for the scalar.</div><div class="">in fact the scalar has a point source near the inlet, and i want to see how that develops downstream. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">as far as i understand this is not supported by nek5000, because the last mesh point is identified with the first mesh point when periodic BC are imposed.</div><div class="">correct ?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">my question is : could i define two meshes, one for the scalar and one for the velocity ?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">thanks a lot for your help !!!</div><div class="">agnese</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class="" style="letter-spacing: normal; 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