ReactingFoam

vassilis

Hi all!

I'm a new user of openFOAM with a very limited experience in the field of CFD. I am currently trying to simulate a CH4 combustion (laminar) in a cylinder with two inlet surfaces, one for the air and one for the fuel. The chemistry etc. are to be read from a CHEMKIN file.
I've read in previous threads that the best way to do this would be by using the reactingFOAM solver. Could you please give me some general directions/instructions?

My biggest problem is in locating the entities demanded from the solver in the 0/ directory, i.e. the initial conditions. How do I make clear where the fuel is entering? Is it the ft variable that defines this? Do I need to state k and epsilon when calculating with :

turbulenceModel laminar;
turbulence off;

????

My guideline so far was the aachenbomb tutorial copied from the dieselFoam case. The geometry and the mes(s)h was imported.

Waiting for an answer,
v.p.