[bowall]

Hi,

I'm new to OpenFOAM, well actually quite new to CFD as well, and has walked through some of the OpenFOAM tutorials. I'm interested in sail boat design and would like to use OpenFOAM for looking at e.g. drag of a hull. Is it possible to exchange the geometry for the hull used in e.g. the interFoam DTCHull to another geometry (i.e. use the tutorial as a template and change it according to needs)? That would be a great start to begin exploring. My idea is to design a hull using free software, starting with DelftShip Free to design a hull and then to look at the hydrodynamic aspects using OpenFOAM. Out of my head it would basically be just to exchange the geometry of the DTCHull to my geometry (and probably do some conversion from the "CAD" to "OpenFOAM World") and everything else would come out of the box from the DTCHull example. Of course I might be wrong, it has happened Before :-). Anyone who has any pointers in any direction? Links to similar discussions?

best regards,
Bo-Göran