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Old   July 30, 2010, 13:44
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Hey everyone,

Firstly while I have several years of experience with Fluent I am completely new to OpenFOAM and have had a hard time getting my head around the framework of the program. If someone could help me set up the following case I would be most grateful!

I want to set up a 500m x 25m 2-D structured mesh with 1m^2 cells as a transient, incompressible case (icoFoam ?) with (in Fluent-speak) a velocity inlet, two periodic faces and a pressure outlet. The velocity inlet has been prescribed with a user-defined function in Fluent and I could use some help implementing this in OpenFOAM also.

Later I will introduce some objects in the flow field and go to 3-D etc. but if I could get some help to start up this simple case asap then that would be great.

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Hi,

Your case seems simple to setup in OpenFOAM. The best option to prescribe your user-defined function in the inlet is to use the groovyBC utility that is available in the OpenFOAM wiki.

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Thanks for that tip! Off-topic but I'm doing some cleaning right now as my room is a mess so I'll look into this groovyBC facility tomorrow!

I want to specify fluctuating u and v components though, rather than just an oscillating velocity magnitude normal to the inlet boundary.

I've found this test case...

http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/Bl...Flow_Benchmark

...which is something like what I'll ultimately be doing. What I'll try and do is go as far as I can on my own modifying this code and when I come across problems I'll hopefully have more specific questions. Thanks again!
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Old   July 31, 2010, 19:58
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OK, I've managed to set up the case apart from my inlet BC...

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Old   August 3, 2010, 08:45
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Last edited by steph79; August 4, 2010 at 13:19. Reason: Problem solved on other topic!
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