|
[Sponsors] |
July 3, 2013, 15:54 |
OpenFOAM to Z88 mesh
|
#1 |
Senior Member
Marco A. Turcios
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada
Posts: 740
Rep Power: 28 |
Hello everyone,
I've been experimenting with the open source FEA package Z88 Aurora. I was looking to do some analysis based on the conjugate heat transfer in OpenFOAM. I was curious if anyone has done any work on data interchange between these two programs. I was mainly looking to convert a tet-mesh in OF to a tet-mesh in Z88.
Figured I'd ask before I started on a damn fool idealistic crusade Thanks everyone! |
|
August 18, 2017, 11:05 |
|
#2 |
New Member
Matthew Barrington
Join Date: Aug 2017
Posts: 1
Rep Power: 0 |
Hi mturcios777,
I know this post is from long ago, but I am just stating what you intended to start in 2013. I am also looking to use results from OpenFOAM in Z88. Was the data interchange easy? Should I dive right into this? Any and all advice is appreciated! |
|
August 18, 2017, 12:21 |
|
#3 |
Senior Member
Marco A. Turcios
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada
Posts: 740
Rep Power: 28 |
Hello Matthew,
I did do some work on this but only ever tested it on a single geometry. I believe I did it in general like this: 1) Write out the OpenFOAM pointField interpolation to use as source 2) Map the Openfoam point values to the Z88 Points If you read the Z88 programming manual, you can find the description for the boundary condition files. Its pretty straightforward. For step 1 I think I just dumped the pointfield with (x,y,z) coordinates and field values through a purpose built Foam utility, then read that file in steps 2 and output the Z88 file. If I knew more about the interpolation function in finiteVolume, I could probably streamline the process by writing a parser to read in the Z88 mesh, directly map the Foam point field to the Z88 point field, then write out the Z88 boundary condition file. The documentation is all there for how files are formatted and how to set things appropriately. Its just a tedious process. Thankfully, you do it properly once and it should work for all future case. |
|
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
[Salome] Script for converting a mesh from Salome-Platform to OpenFOAM | nsf | OpenFOAM Meshing & Mesh Conversion | 86 | February 8, 2023 10:30 |
how to set periodic boundary conditions | Ganesh | FLUENT | 15 | November 18, 2020 06:09 |
[Commercial meshers] OpenFoam Mesh to Fluent Mesh in parallel case | DominicTNC | OpenFOAM Meshing & Mesh Conversion | 3 | November 22, 2017 09:19 |
[Salome] Mesh conversion Salome to OpenFOAM | VMartinez | OpenFOAM Meshing & Mesh Conversion | 11 | April 21, 2014 02:54 |
OpenFOAM Foundation releases OpenFOAM 2.2.2 | opencfd | OpenFOAM Announcements from ESI-OpenCFD | 0 | October 14, 2013 07:18 |