Entries for October 21, 2013

If an error occurs while compiling OpenFOAM from source that has to do with the "linker" ld does not support the --add-nedded option (Read more at: http://www.openfoam.org/mantisbt/view.php?id=685 and http://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/ope...roblem-ld.html).

The problem summary:

The 'nixOS has two linker programs ld.bfd and ld.gold. They both are situated in /usr/bin/. The /usr/bin/ld is a link to either. If this...

These are the implementations of two static SGS models, due to Vreman and Nicoud (see the attached files for the detailed references). These models are in the same spirit of the well known WALE model; still, they are different in several aspects.

The models are provided without any kind of warranty; still, no specific problem came up during testing.

For wall bounded turbulent flows in Fluent i strongly suggest the Vreman model due to its specific, theoretically wrong, near...