By default, all kinematic conditions are applied to the material, not to the grid. For ALE
applications, options of interest are:
Fixed and full slip boundary conditions
Imposed velocities (for example: imposed flux at inlet)
Rigid links (temporary adds during restarts)
Rigid bodies to model rigid structures and connections and also to compute drag
and lift forces (that is, fluid impulse on rigid body is stored in time history
database).
Boundary Conditions
ALE boundary conditions are activated by using /ALE/BCS keyword in the input
deck. Grid constraints act only on grid velocities. If a boundary condition is not
specified for grid velocity, nodes may move in any arbitrary manner (ALE).
Figure 1. ALE Boundary Condition Applications
Rigid Body (/RBODY)
A rigid body is defined by a main node M and a set of secondary nodes. Rigid bodies are used in
CFD application to compute reactive forces on structures.
ALE Links (VEL/ALE)
ALE link is a set of n nodes with grid velocity controlled by two main nodes M1 and M2. Input
data is done at each restart (temporary add). Three options are available:
Velocity is linearly interpolated with respect to input order
Velocity is set to maximum absolute velocity of main nodes
Velocity is set to minimum absolute velocity of main nodes
