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Old   September 7, 2014, 01:18
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in post-processing (ParaView), the pressure is given in which unit when using the units [0 2 -2 0 0 0 0] in "p" file? [Pa] or [mē/sē]?


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Dear Vitor,

OpenFOAM uses density specific pressure for calculation:

p* = p / rho

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