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April 27, 2009, 05:39 |
problem with use of opemfoam
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Mohammed TOUIL
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I am beginner and I need to use openfoam, but I did not know how and what the difference between the pre-processing , solving and post-processing?
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April 27, 2009, 09:55 |
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Gavin Tabor
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Same as for any other CFD code. Pre-processing refers to the steps you take to set up the case you want to run; geometry and mesh generation, setting physical and numerical coefficients. Solving consists of actually running the code to generate numbers. Post-processing is manipulating those numbers to provide answers - this can involve graphical display (paraFoam) or data processing (eg. evaluating drag forces)
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April 28, 2009, 03:19 |
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Mohammed TOUIL
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thanks Gavin
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April 28, 2009, 03:21 |
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Mohammed TOUIL
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what's the best pre and post processing that is easy to handle
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April 28, 2009, 03:38 |
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Gijsbert Wierink
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For pre-processing there are many tools, it is a matter of taste and resources. You need to generate a mesh in some meshing program like Gambit (is expensive), Gridgen (also costs), Gmsh (is free, I believe), Salome (is free), Cubit (costs a bit), or some other program. For post-processing you can use ParaView as paraFoam or you can also do nice post-processing with Matlab. Of course, you can also use a more commercial post-processing program, but that costs.
Hope this informs you abit. Regards, Gijsbert |
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April 30, 2009, 06:12 |
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Wolfgang Heydlauff
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hi mtouil,
since i think you only want to use opensource (free) tools, i advice you to take the openfoam internal tool "blockMesh" for simple meshes (blocks, shapes, 2D, ...) and salome meca for more complex geometries (triangle, quads,...). gmsh is free an very simple, but only creates tetra-meshes. for CFD you might better use hexa-meshes. another pre-tool would be engrid from the company egits its for free and can also create structured boundary layers. also a good tool (but hard to learn) sit the openfoam internal program snappyhexmesh. it ca (with some errors and problems) create very complex meshes with a boundary layer added. see those many forum threads here. grtabor is right: paraVierw is a very nice and very good postprocessor. creating a 3D geometry would be your hardest part, if you don't have a CAD program. |
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