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Old   November 11, 2008, 07:16
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Hi,

I am new to OpenFOAM and I have gone through quite a few of the tutorial, but I would like to know is there anywhere I can find out about how to write a solver.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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Old   November 11, 2008, 08:44
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Here's a good start:

http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/Ho...ure_to_icoFoam
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Old   November 19, 2008, 13:16
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Hi Ville,

What about after that? Looks like there are more questions than answers...
Any ideas?

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Old   November 19, 2008, 15:09
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Hi Alex,

depends what you want to do For me the existing solvers and utilities are just examples. They use the OpenFOAM core libraries to read, solve and write stuff.

I know that getting deep into OpenFOAM takes time. Browse the existing code "examples", read the programmer's guide and make your own modifications

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Old   November 19, 2008, 16:08
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yeah, that's how I feel... it's gonna be long and time consuming (but, hopefully, fun). I just wish there was a tutorial like "Let's make a solver for such and such problem using OpenFOAM libraries". But, since it's an open project, nobody wants to do it for free... arr

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Old   November 25, 2008, 13:11
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Hi Ville!

I am not a CFD person, but I have become interested in using OpenFOAM in my research work (I am in the field of electrochemistry). I have gone through some tutorials and I think I have a general understanding how the program works. To start with a simple problem, I would like to use OpenFOAM to solve Fick's second law of diffusion, which has the form dC/dt = D*laplacian(C) (where C is the concentration and D is the diffusion coefficient of the species). Is there a standard solver available for such type of a problem, or would I have to create my own? Would laplacianFoam be appropriate? I hope you could help me since nobody seems to answer my questions...

Thank you very much!

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Old   November 25, 2008, 14:35
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Hi Alex,

laplacianFoam solves the following equation:

dT/dt = laplacian(DT,T)
= DT*laplacian(T) (when DT is constant)

To answer your question, I think laplacianFoam is VERY appropriate for your problem. If you use the solver directly, you'll have to make an analogy between the temperature T and the concentration C by doing some dimensional analysis (same thing for the diffusion coefficients...). Hope this helps,

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Old   November 25, 2008, 17:59
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Thank you Mathieu, I think this is the right direction. I appreciate it!
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Old   November 28, 2008, 16:03
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Hi,

I managed to make OpenFoam solve a simple PDE dC/dt=laplacian(D, C) by modifying laplacianFoam. But now I am looking to solve a more difficult equation:

dC(x,y,t)/dt = laplacian(D, C)+(D/x)*(dC/dx).

Can someone give me a clue how could I modify laplacianFoam to incorporate this extra term?

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Old   November 28, 2008, 16:50
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Hi,

I am new to OpenFOAM and I have gone through user guide, but I want to implement Matrix-Vector multiplication (I have c++ code) in OpenFOAM. I would be grateful if somebody can help me or If someone has already implemented some algorithms in OpenFoam then I would like to request that implementation.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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Old   November 29, 2008, 02:03
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Hi Alex,

This is what I would try:

vector oneX(1,0,0);
volScalarField x = oneX & mesh.C();

do untill convergence
{
solve
(
fvm::ddt(C) = fvm::laplacian(D, C)+(D/x)*(oneX & fvc::grad(C))
)
}

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Old   December 1, 2008, 16:08
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Sorry, I wrote "do until convergence" for simplicity (pseudo code). The "do while" is clearly what you need here. To be more specific:

int iCorr = 0;
scalar initialResidual = 0;

do
{
fvVectorMatrix Eqn
(
fvm::ddt(C) = fvm::laplacian(D, C)+(D/x)*(oneX & fvc::grad(C))
);

initialResidual = Eqn.solve().initialResidual();


}
while (initialResidual > convergenceTolerance && ++iCorr < nCorr);


This is very similar to the procedure in the solver solidDisplacementFoam... The "convergence" loop is used to update the explicit term (fvc::grad(C)) at each iteration. Good luck !

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Old   December 1, 2008, 21:28
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For the readSolidDisplacementFoamControls.H file, try the tutorial of solidDisplacementFoam and you should understand it (there are also some explanations in the user guide, in the tutorial section). The parameters are read in the fvSolution file. For the "void expression" error, try to isolate the problem by removing terms from the equation... it may have something to do with the (D/x)*(oneX & fvc::grad(C)) term but I can't say for sure... By the way, I think you should remove the "for (int nonOrth=0; nonOrth<=nNonOrthCorr; nonOrth++) " loop.

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Hey Alex, i am trying to do the same as you did and i wanted to ask you, how you managed to modify the laplacian foam to solve Fick's second law?
I am trying to modify, but somehow it won't work :/
I tried to change the temperature to the concentration where i could find it as well i was going through the tutorial before on how to change a solver posted by villet.
I hope someone will read this as it was quite some time ago.
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