[rbozinoski]

Hi Foamers,

I am very new to OpenFOAM and have only been playing around with it for about a month(very unsuccessfully I might add). I have heard great things about this cfd toolkit and wanted to start getting my feet wet with some of its capabilities. I've gone through some of the tutorials and have read a lot of journal articles where OpenFOAM was used and am convinced that OpenFOAM will be a great tool for my future research aspirations. Unfortunately, my first few attempts at using it for cases other than what's packaged with the tutorials have not gone very well. So what I finally did was focus all my efforts on learning OpenFOAM by first using the following Fluent tutorial.

http://courses.cit.cornell.edu/fluent/nozzle/step4.htm

This tutorial outlines a simple inviscid nozzle flow problem and I wanted to reproduce the results using OpenFOAM. I converted the mesh using 'fluentMeshToFoam' and then tried to first generate an initial flow field using potentialFoam and then launch an inviscid case using rhoSonicFoam. I was unsuccessful with both. I've attached a tarball of my case files and was hoping someone could help me understand what I am doing wrong and how to properly launch this case. I will admit that I don't have a clear understanding of how to properly implement the boundary conditions or how to get more information regarding the current capabilities in OpenFOAM.

Once again, thank you all in advance and any assistance would be greatly appreciated.