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Old   July 2, 2013, 10:13
Default Generating Mesh - NACA0012 Airfoil
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I am trying to generate a mesh of a NACA0012 airfoil and then run a case with water and air running over the airfoil. I have an stl file of the airfoil and have attempted to convert this to a blockMeshDict file to be able to modify the airFoil2D tutorial case and use blockMesh to generate the mesh, but haven't had any luck. I am very new to OpenFOAM and CFD concepts, so I may be going about this entirely the wrong way. I am using Ubuntu 12.04 and OpenFOAM-2.2.0.
Any help pointing me in the right direction, such as how to correctly generate the mesh, what solvers to use, etc., would be greatly appreciated!
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Old   July 2, 2013, 10:41
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welcome to forum

first of all, you can find your solution faster by search in forum, forexample search airfoil,
NACA and so on , i made it for you, and some interesting link is below:

http://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/ope...-aerofoil.html
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http://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/ope...-naca0012.html

in brief, you have two choice:
1- using blockMesh ( create a Cmesh around airfoil)
2-uisng snappyHexMesh if you have stl file
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Thanks for the quick reply, although I have already searched the forum and have read both of those threads. Either the person who posted the thread had some information previously that I did not have or there were parts of the given solution that I didn't understand, so that's why I decided to post my own question.
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I think you should follow the wingMotion tutorial. You could find it under incompressible/pimpleDyMFoam.
Check the Allrun file.

Basically, you will have to follow the following steps;
1 - Generate .stl file using any CAD program like FreeCAD.
2 - Create background mesh using blockMesh
3 - Using snappyHexMesh to create your mesh
4 - use extrudeMesh to create 2D mesh

And to achieve a good yPlus value for your case you could use refineWallLayer

Also you could use blockMesh only which I am not prefer. I use it only for simple cases.
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