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Old   March 28, 2010, 07:38
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:hello FOAMers

i want solve a canal and obtain temperature contour for its solid container. convective heat transfer is internally (Forced) and externally (Natural) exists.

i produced mesh as standard OpenFOAM format.

I know i should use laplacianFoam of basic dir. BUT i don't know how should i solve this problem.

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i produced mesh as standard OpenFOAM format.
I suppose you meshed only the container (what is that exactly to you?) because this is all you are interested in?
Than you should use convective boundary conditions on both sides.
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I suppose you meshed only the container (what is that exactly to you?) because this is all you are interested in?
Than you should use convective boundary conditions on both sides.
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Yes i've meshed the solid container of canal. my problem is what changes should i do on run/tutorials/basic/laplacianFoam dir to achieve a solution for my desired canal problem. i am new and it is my first FOAMing.
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Well, as mentioned above you should change the boundary conditions.
Make yourself comfortable with heat transfer, so you can decide which condition suits your problem best: http://web.mit.edu/lienhard/www/ahtt.html

Changing the boundary conditions you should be able to do, once you have read the User Guide.

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