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Old   February 23, 2014, 15:17
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Hello everyone,
I am trying to simulate a simple fuel cell (no difference what type) in OpenFOAM.
Would you please let me know which solver in OpenFOAM is used to simulate fuel cell?
Thanks a lot for your help,
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Old   February 24, 2014, 06:01
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Have a look at:

http://openfuelcell.sourceforge.net

The git repository with the code is available there as well.

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Old   February 24, 2014, 11:56
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Thanks a lot,
that is a big favor
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Old   February 25, 2014, 04:12
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Hi:

Did you follow the instructions for downloading and running the code under "documentation"?
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Old   February 25, 2014, 04:54
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I am not able to access the source code. The git repository seems to be private.
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Old   February 25, 2014, 15:08
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Try:

git clone git://git.code.sf.net/p/openfuelcell/git openfuelcell
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Old   February 25, 2014, 18:48
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Thank you very much. It works this way.

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git clone git://git.code.sf.net/p/openfuelcell/git openfuelcell
But why is the repository on the sourceforge website private?
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Old   February 26, 2014, 00:52
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Well, I could install that, thanks. But when I try to compile the solver, it come up with an error and shows the lack of a class or header in porous.
Have you seen that error before?
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Old   February 26, 2014, 17:37
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I am completely following the instruction. However, when I wanna compile the model (src ./ Allwmake), it comes up with a fatal error as the below:

sofcFoam.C:57:25: fatal error: porousZones.H: No such file or directory

Has anyone ever seen this error? If such a file doesn't exist, that would be a big issue. I am sure there is something wrong from my side.
I really appreciate your helps.

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Old   February 28, 2014, 12:31
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Have a look at:

http://openfuelcell.sourceforge.net

The git repository with the code is available there as well.

Enjoy,

Hrv
I tried to run in parallel. However, "make parprep" doesn't work. I also tried with decompospar but it doesn't run as parallel.
Have you ever tried to run in parallel?
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Old   April 5, 2014, 16:28
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Greetings to all!

I order to make it a little be easier to find this toolkit, I've created a wiki page for it: http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/Ex...s/OpenFuelCell
Anyone and everyone is welcome to add information to it!

Although a bit late, regarding the issues on the previous posts:
  1. This error message:
    Code:
    sofcFoam.C:58:25: fatal error: porousZones.H: No such file or directory
    is because openFuelCell was designed to work with OpenFOAM 2.1.x: http://openfuelcell.sourceforge.net/doc/quick-start - and I quote:
    Quote:
    Assuming you have OpenFOAM version 2.1.x with environment variables set, here is all you need to download, compile, and run sofcFoam.
  2. @Parisa_Khiabani: Knowing which case you're referring to would make it easier to try and reproduce the same problem!
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Old   May 2, 2014, 06:21
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Dear all,

I am running a 64 bits computer with ubuntu 12.04LTS installed. I have installed and tested openfoam211 and paraviewopenfoam3120. Everything looks fine.
I have also installed openfuelcell using the following instructions: http://openfuelcell.sourceforge.net/doc/quick-start .
The compilation and the mesh generation steps went well but the make run command gave me the following error:

Create mesh for time = 0

Reading cell properties

--> FOAM FATAL IO ERROR:
keyword numCells is undefined in dictionary "/home/victorhess/OpenFOAM/openfuelcell/run/coFlow/constant/cellProperties"

file: /home/victorhess/OpenFOAM/openfuelcell/run/coFlow/constant/cellProperties from line 29 to line 60.

From function dictionary::lookupEntry(const word&, bool, bool) const
in file db/dictionary/dictionary.C at line 400.

FOAM exiting

Any help will be highly appreciated.
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Old   May 6, 2014, 12:27
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Hi Bruno (and everyone else),

do you know if the openfuelcell toolkit has been already ported onto OpenFOAM-2.2.x? I have also older versions installed, but since the 2.2.x is my baseline release I was just trying to know if there is already some work done out there or should I start it from scratch.

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Greetings to all!

I've had this thread on my to-do list for some time now and only managed to look into this a few minutes ago.

@Yvo: The problem you've triggered is related to a recent code change that was made back in April 2014. You can use the following command from the "run" folder, for searching the tutorial cases that already use this option:
Code:
find . -name cellProperties | xargs grep "numCells"
I got the following two results:
Code:
./quickTest/constant/cellProperties:numCells        numCells [0 0 0 0 0 0 0] 1;      // K
./quickTestStack/constant/cellProperties:numCells            numCells [0 0 0 0 0 0 0] 3;
The description from the git repository about this new option is this:
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Added numCells in readCellProperties.H to indicate number of cells in stack (set to 1 for single cell)
This new option/variable is used in the file "src/appSrc/solveCurrent.H".

From what I can see on the git history, I would suggest that you switch to an old commit, by running the following commands from the main folder for this toolkit:
Code:
git checkout 7afc755bc -b January2014
cd src
wclean all
wmake all
The main development is kept in the "master" branch. Study any git tutorial to learn how to use a git repository

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@Vesselin: AFAIK, this toolkit has not been ported to OpenFOAM 2.2.x nor 2.3.x. From what I can figure out from the git history and project's pages:
  1. This toolkit is still in development and said development is done periodically.
  2. It seems to be done by more than one team and/or it's shared between several people from different institutes/companies.
  3. They very likely won't port to a new version until they reach a new stable release of their toolkit, so that they can validate and compare the results with 2.1.x vs 2.2.x or 2.3.x or any other OpenFOAM version.
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Old   June 8, 2014, 19:01
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Quote:
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@Vesselin: AFAIK, this toolkit has not been ported to OpenFOAM 2.2.x nor 2.3.x. From what I can figure out from the git history and project's pages:
  1. This toolkit is still in development and said development is done periodically.
  2. It seems to be done by more than one team and/or it's shared between several people from different institutes/companies.
  3. They very likely won't port to a new version until they reach a new stable release of their toolkit, so that they can validate and compare the results with 2.1.x vs 2.2.x or 2.3.x or any other OpenFOAM version.
Best regards,
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Ok, got the message, thanks anyway.

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Dear all,

i got problems while compiling the code with a newer Version of gcc.
So, if you try to compile this model, use a compatible gcc compiler version for OpenFOAM-2.1 (gcc 4.3.3 - 4.7.x)

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my erro was:

collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [/srv/home/s41323/OpenFOAM/s41323-2.1.1/platforms/linux64GccDPOpt/bin/fuelCellFoam] Error 1

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Hello,

Has anyone been able to compile this solver with the current release of OF (4.1)? I have problems installing OF 2.1.x, while OF 4.1 was easy to install via docker.

I would like to use and modify the openfuelcell solver for my master thesis. Does anyone with more experience in OpenFoam programming know how much work it would be to adapt the solver for OF 4.1?

Thanks in advance!
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Greetings Krebsmann,

Many thanks for posting your question, because I had thought the code was not available online any more. But after reading your post, I've followed the instructions at http://openfuelcell.sourceforge.net/doc/quick-start and was able to download the source code using git!

I've updated the wiki page https://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/Contrib/OpenFuelCell - after inspecting the git repository. It looks like the code has been upgraded to build with OpenFOAM 3.0.1 and that is available in the "V3" branch, which you can checkout with the following command:
Code:
git checkout V3
I've tested building it with OpenFOAM 3.0.x and it also built successfully. However, it did not build with OpenFOAM 4.1.

Right now I don't have time to try and update the source code to build with OpenFOAM 4.1. And since you didn't indicate which operating system you are using, I'm unable to suggest a specific way to build OpenFOAM 3.0.1 from source code.
However, you could create a container in Docker that uses Ubuntu 14.04 and then install OpenFOAM 3.0.1 as instructed here: https://openfoam.org/download/3-0-1-ubuntu/

Best regards,
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Greetings Krebsmann,

Many thanks for posting your question, because I had thought the code was not available online any more. But after reading your post, I've followed the instructions at http://openfuelcell.sourceforge.net/doc/quick-start and was able to download the source code using git!

I've updated the wiki page https://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/Contrib/OpenFuelCell - after inspecting the git repository. It looks like the code has been upgraded to build with OpenFOAM 3.0.1 and that is available in the "V3" branch, which you can checkout with the following command:
Code:
git checkout V3
I've tested building it with OpenFOAM 3.0.x and it also built successfully. However, it did not build with OpenFOAM 4.1.

Right now I don't have time to try and update the source code to build with OpenFOAM 4.1. And since you didn't indicate which operating system you are using, I'm unable to suggest a specific way to build OpenFOAM 3.0.1 from source code.
However, you could create a container in Docker that uses Ubuntu 14.04 and then install OpenFOAM 3.0.1 as instructed here: https://openfoam.org/download/3-0-1-ubuntu/

Best regards,
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Dear
Please share the complete steps. how I can install.

Thank you
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To download the specific branch you have to use the following command:

git clone -b V3 git://git.code.sf.net/p/openfuelcell/git openfuelcell

Then you follow the directions given here: http://openfuelcell.sourceforge.net/doc/quick-start

Thanks @wyldckat for the hint with the new version! OF 3.0.x builds fine on my system (Arch Linux, Kernel 4.10), and the Openfuelcell solver also seems to work (I don't see any fields besides temperature in Paraview in the moment, but I guess I'll sort this out quickly).
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