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CASE STUDY ON BLOOD FLOW OVER NFRPC BONE ATTACHED PLATE USING COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS

D.Chandramohan
Ph.D., Research scholar, Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Anna University of Technology Coimbatore, Coimbatore, India
Email: mail_2_cm@yahoo.com
K. Marimuthu
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Coimbatore Institute of Technology, Coimbatore, India
Email: kmcit@yahoo.co.uk...

The method to create a hybrid mesh.

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In case you are dealing with sharp fields, there are multiple options to choose from. Usually, the literature recommends the "least squares approach", or linear regression. In order to get somewhere with this, the least squares points should pick up the skew cells , not just the normal own-nei surrounding cells in OpenFOAM. Still, there is a workaround that works fine:

#1) IDW interpolation of cell values to mesh points
#2) create a surface*field
#3) average the...

The primitiveMesh::cellCells returns with a cross cell stencil of 6 cells (the cell in question is excluded). This computation comes from the basis of OpenFOAM: face addressing. Although it is very efficient, this kind of computation introduces errros e.g. in the gradient reconstruction of sharp fields.

Try to generate a field that has a jump in a single layer of cells, whose iso surface is a plane, and try to compute the normal field of this plane from the fraction gradient using...

My work for B.Tech thesis is on Flow Induced Vibrations- Flow around a circular cylinder.

The geometry is as follows...

A long cylinder is suspended on 4 springs-2 at 2 ends from top along the length and 2 right below them. The axis of the cylinder is horizontal. The arrangement is such that the transverse vibrations are in the direction of the spring axes.

For this, I am using OpenFOAM version2.1.0, and tutorials/incompressible/pimpleDyMFoam/wingMotion/wingMotion2D_pimpleDyMFoam...