OpenFOAM® Basic Training
6th edition, April 2023
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Editorial board:
Bahram Haddadi
Technische Universität Wien
Christian Jordan Institute of Chemical, Environmental
& Bioscience Engineering
Michael Harasek
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OpenFOAM® v10
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ISBN 978-3-903337-02-2
Publisher: chemical-engineering.at
Available from: www.fluiddynamics.at
OpenFOAM® Basic Training
Preface
In this OpenFOAM® tutorial series, we have prepared fourteen case examples that are
designed to help users to learn the key utilities and features within OpenFOAM ®, including
mesh generation, multiphase modeling, turbulence modeling, parallel processing and
reaction modeling. The base tutorial examples can be imported directly from the
OpenFOAM® installation directory or downloaded from our webpage:
www.fluiddynamics.at.
The tutorials should be primarily used for OpenFOAM® v10 (Foundation version –
www.openfoam.org) but with slight differences, generally applicable to the other flavors of
OpenFOAM® such as ESI-version and foam-extend! The structure of each case example
follow the below general structure:
0. Background: an introduction about the key topics explored in the tutorial and the
relevant CFD theory
1. Pre-processing: instructions on how to set up the correct case structure for a given
problem using base case tutorials, with explanations on relevant dictionaries
2. Running simulation: instructions on running the solver and its associated
commands
3. Post-processing: examining the results in OpenFOAM®’s post-processing
application, ParaView V5.10.1
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Table of Contents
Tutorial One: Basic Case Setup
Solver: icoFoam
Geometry: 2-dimensional
Tutorial: elbow
Tutorial Two: Built in Mesh
Solver: rhoPimpleFoam
Geometry: 2-dimensional
Tutorial: forwardStep
Tutorial Three: Patching Fields
Solver: rhoPimpleFoam
Geometry: 1-dimensional
Tutorial: shockTube
Tutorial Four: Discretization – Part 1
Solver: scalarTransportFoam
Geometry: 1-dimensional
Tutorial: shockTube
Tutorial Five: Discretization – Part 2
Solver: scalarTransportFoam
Geometry: 2-dimensional
Tutorial: circle
Tutorial Six: Turbulence, Steady state
Solver: simpleFoam
Geometry: 2-dimensional
Tutorial: pitzDaily
Tutorial Seven: Turbulence, Transient
Solver: pisoFoam
Geometry: 2-dimensional
Tutorial: pitzDaily
Tutorial Eight: Multiphase - VoF
Solver: interFoam
Geometry: 2-dimensional
Tutorial: damBreak
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Tutorial Nine: Parallel Processing
Solver: compressibleInterFoam
Geometry: 3-dimensional
Tutorial: depthCharge3D
Tutorial Ten: Residence Time Distribution
Solver: simpleFoam, scalarTransportFoam
Geometry: 3-dimensional
Tutorial: TJunction
Tutorial Eleven: Reaction
Solver: reactingFoam
Geometry: 3-dimensional
Tutorial: reactingElbow
Tutorial Twelve: snappyHexMesh – Single Region
Solver: snappyHexMesh, scalarTransportFoam
Geometry: 3-dimensional
Tutorial: flange
Tutorial Thirteen: snappyHexMesh – Multi Region
Solver: snappyHexMesh, chtMultiRegionFoam
Geometry: 3-dimensional
Tutorial: snappyMultiRegionHeater
Tutorial Fourteen: Sampling
Solver: rhoPimpleFoam
Geometry: 3-dimensional
Tutorial: shockTube
Appendix A: Important Commands in Linux
Appendix B: Running OpenFOAM®
Appendix C: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Appendix D: ParaView
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