[henrik]

Hi JinBao,

Christan Lucas at the TU Braunschweig has done some work on real gas thermodynamics which might find helpful. It includes implementations of aungierRedlichKwong, pengRobinson, redlichKwong, soaveRedlichKwong EOS.

Please checkout the feature/fullyIntegratedRealGasThermo branch on extend.

... and, yes, your contribution is more than welcome.

Best Regards,

Henrik

[JinBiao]

Hi Henrik, Thank you for the helpful information. Christan Lucas's approach is very interesting. I will try to apply it in my calculation. Christan Lucas provided the tutorial for CO2. I am not sure the library will work for water. I will share my experience here after I try it.

I am also trying to get a successful calculation with my own property library. Thanks again.

Regards,

[yhaomin2007]

Hi, JinBiao:

I am doing something with OpenFOAM using some real gas model.

I want to know where do you fine the "Christan Lucas provided the tutorial for CO2."

thank you

[Chris Lucas]

Hi,

you can find my code in the OpenFOAM extend on sourceforge. See link:

http://openfoam-extend.git.sourcefor...-ext;a=summary

Have a look at feature/fullyIntegratedRealGasThermo.

Best Regards
Christian

[JinBiao]

Hi Haomin,

I hope you have already get what you need. Because I am playing with water, I had no further experience with Lucas's library. But the structure of Lucas's implementation looks very good. Much better than I can do.

Good luck and enjoy it.

Regards,

Jinbiao

[Chris Lucas]

Hi Jinbiao,

I forgot to ask you, is your IAPWS-IF97 implementation working? Did you implement it yourself or are you using external libraries like freeSteam.

Best Regards,
Christian

[ashrawage]

Hello guys..
I am working on simulations which involves water at 24MPa and temperatures ranging from 350-700 C.

Like JinBiao, I have been using IAPWS equations (RefProp) to get data sets for K Cp, Rho and Viscosity.
With these data sets, I generated a plot in excel and fitted curves to get R squared values very close to 1.
Now i have implemented these curves as piecewise polynomials in Fluent material properties. But as of now i am consistently getting divergence in temperature or pressure correction errors the moment i initiate the calculations.

Do you have any recommendations regarding this? Or can you think of any better way to model Super critical water in Fluent?

Thanks a lot...
Abhijeet J S

[diego gomez]

hello, I'm just learning openFoam. could you tell me how can I simulate a turbulent flow? I know the icoFoam solver is only for laminar flow.
Thanks a lot,
Diego

[Chris Lucas]

Hi,

for all who are interested in IAPWS Water properties in OpenFOAM, I included IAPWS water properties in the openFOAM 1.6.ext version. I use freeSteam to calculate the properties.

http://openfoam-extend.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=openfoam-extend/OpenFOAM-1.6-ext;a=summary

see branch: feature/fullyIntegratedRealGasThermo

Kind Regards,
Christian

[Smed]

Christian,

Would you mind explaining how to download and install your IAPWS implementation? Can it also be used in version 2.1.1 or only in 1.6?

[Chris Lucas]

Hi,

the code is developed for OpenFOAM 1.6-ext (extend), so I am not sure if the code works in OpenFOAM 2.1.

The code is provided as a git branch, download OpenFOAM 1.6-ext
(see http://www.extend-project.de/). Change branch and connect your new branch to branch feature/fullyIntegratedRealGasThermo of the external repository (if needed, google for checkout of remote branch)

You can find the main source file in “src/thermophsicalModels/externalMedia”. You need to compile the code yourself (wmake libso), the code is not includes in the Allwmake file in src/thermophsicalModels/

Have a look at the tutorial ReadME file. The tutorial can be found at tutorials/compressible/rhoPisoFoam/ras/IAPWS97_Pipe. The file should explain what you need to do (mainly install freeSteam and provide the dynamic library to openFOAM)

Regards,
Christian

[Smed]

Christian,

I am not very familiar with git, so I would appreciate your help. I have downloaded OpenFOAM-1.6 ext using

git clone git://openfoam-extend.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/openfoam-extend/openfoam-extend

If I look for “src/thermophsicalModels/externalMedia” at this point, the externalMedia directory doesn't seem to exist. I'm guessing this is because I need to do something with the branches. I have tried

git checkout -b origin/feature/realGasThermo

But after executing this command, I still don't see an externalMedia directory. Can you please explain what I need to do next? Thanks.

[Chris Lucas]

Hi,

try

git checkout -b feature/fullyIntegratetedRealGasThermo origin/feature/fullyIntegradetedRealGasThermo

maybe you need to use
git pull
afterwards

Regards,
Christian

[markusrehm]

Hi Chris,

can you please explain step by step how to get the branch?

Is the right one

feature/fullyIntegradetedRealGasThermo

or

origin/feature/fullyIntegradetedRealGasThermo?

I got the following messages:

>git checkout -b feature/fullyIntegradetedRealGasThermo origin/feature/fullyIntegradetedRealGasThermo

fatal: git checkout: updating paths is incompatible with switching branches.
Did you intend to checkout 'origin/feature/fullyIntegradetedRealGasThermo' which can not be resolved as commit?


>git pull
You asked me to pull without telling me which branch you
want to merge with, and 'branch.origin/feature/realGasThermo.merge' in
your configuration file does not tell me, either. Please
specify which branch you want to use on the command line and
try again (e.g. 'git pull <repository> <refspec>').
See git-pull(1) for details.

If you often merge with the same branch, you may want to
use something like the following in your configuration file:
[branch "origin/feature/realGasThermo"]
remote = <nickname>
merge = <remote-ref>

[remote "<nickname>"]
url = <url>
fetch = <refspec>

See git-config(1) for details.


Thanks a lot. Markus

[Chris Lucas]

Hi,

Follow this explanation (this is what I did)

http://gugod.org/2008/12/git-checkout-remote-branch/

Have a look at

http://openfoam-extend.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=openfoam-extend/OpenFOAM-1.6-ext;a=summary

you can find the name of the branch, the changes in the branch ... there. The name is:


feature/fullyIntegratedRealGasThermo

Kind Regards,
Christian

[markusrehm]

Hi Chris,

you are right. So that is what I did (again):

git clone git://openfoam-extend.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/openfoam-extend/OpenFOAM-1.6-ext
cd OpenFOAM-1.6-ext
git checkout -b feature/fullyIntegratedRealGasThermo origin/feature/fullyIntegratedRealGasThermo

Ok thanks for your patience.

Markus

[Chris Lucas]

Hi,

if you have the time, I would like to get a response regarding the code (problems, suggestions, ...)

Regards,
Christian

[magazoni]

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to install freesteam and I had some problems with it. Does anybody have a tutorial in how to install the freesteam package?

Chris Lucas,
Is it possible to simulate superheated steam and supercooled steam using your code?

Best regards,
Felipe Magazoni

[Chris Lucas]

Hi,

have a look at the freesteam page, you can find the limits, in which the code works, there. The code works with superheated and subcooled steam.

Have you looked at the README file in the tutorial case I provided for freesteam (in OpenFOAM/tutorials/compressible/rhoPisoFOAM/RAS/IAPWS97_pipe)?

Have you installed all the required components for freesteam as stated in the README file in freesteam?

Could you post the error?

Kind Regards,
Christian

[magazoni]

Hi Chris Lucas, thanks for help me.

Now, the freesteam package is correctly installed, but I installed it in the folder '/opt/freesteam'. The libfreesteam.so is not in a folder where OpenFOAM finds ($WM_PROJECT_DIR/lib/linux64GccDPOpt). Must I install the freesteam package in another folder?

After I tried to compile the IAPWS package and there are some errors,

cluster@node0:~/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6-ext/src/thermophysicalModels/externalMedia/IAPWS_Waterproperties$ wmake libso
/home/cluster/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6-ext/wmake/MakefileOptions:37: /home/cluster/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6-ext/wmake/rules/linux64Gcc46/general: No such file or directory
make: *** No rule to make target `/home/cluster/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6-ext/wmake/rules/linux64Gcc46/general'.  Stop.
/home/cluster/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6-ext/wmake/MakefileFiles:39: /home/cluster/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6-ext/wmake/rules/linux64Gcc46/general: No such file or directory
/home/cluster/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6-ext/wmake/MakefileFiles:40: linux64Gcc46DPOpt/options: No such file or directory
make: *** No rule to make target `linux64Gcc46DPOpt/options'.  Stop.
wmake error: file 'Make/linux64Gcc46DPOpt/objectFiles' could not be created

Best regards,
Felipe Magazoni