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Re: [Question #264881]: how to achieve hydrostatic pressure with flowengine

 

Question #264881 on Yade changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/264881

    Status: Open => Answered

Chareyre proposed the following answer:
Hi,

> I need to monitor the pore pressure

Consider that the model gives piezometric pressure (water head converted
in Pascal).
Abolute (pore) pressure is simply:
p = FlowEngine::pressure - gamma*z

You can post-process this one for seeing a classical hydrostatic field.

> But your tip is actually important, because I forgot about buoyancy in
my system...

Yes, very important.

Bruno

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