[aneps]

Hello everyone, I am a newbie to Openfoam. Rather than just following lessons, I am right away into making the models I am interested. I made a simple pipe geometry with air flow. I know the pressure at the entrace (2.5 mbar) and at the exit (0 mbar).

After making geometry and meshing with salome, I imported the UNV mesh file to openfoam. I am using icoFOAM solver from the example (cavity).I modified the 'p' file as

boundaryField
{
Inlet
{
type fixedValue;
value uniform 8194.8;
}
Outlet
{
type fixedValue;
value 0;
}
Walls
{
type zeroGradient;
}
}

I am wondering if this is the right way to apply fixed pressure at the inlet and outlet. 2.5 mbar means 25.49 Kg/m^2. This divided by density at this pressure will give 8194.8.

The result I get is quite strange. Obviously wrong!. Can anyone tell me is this correct way to simulate if we know only the inlet and outlet pressure (no velocity information). This is more practical case, because we measure only pressure with a gauge at the both ends.

Is it correct to use icoFoam for this example?