First of all, I am relatively
 

First of all, I am relatively new to OpenFOAM, but have a 15 year history with other commercial and/or university codes including the code Eric Patterson authored CFDSHIP-Iowa.

Over the last few weeks I have been able to take grids I created in Gridgen and transfer them to OpenFOAM and got resonable incompressible unsteady results.

The first model is a ships rudder on a ground board like you would have in a water tunnel. I have been manually moving the inlet/outlet patches to change the AoA. I would like some pointers on how to set this up with a movable mesh so I can prescribe a set of rudder angles to develop lift/drag curves as a function of rudder angle. Eventually, I will be including this in the flow field of the actual ships hull.

The second case I have is a ships topside again modeled on a ground board. I have used turbFoam to get an unsteady solution of the wake around the superstructure. Here I am looking for input on how to model the exhaust gases that are ejected from the stacks for a various stack gas velocites and temperatures. I need to track the stack gas plume, and if it impinges on the ships superstructure I need to determine the temperature of the plume at that point. I should add that all of this needs to be done in the context of various wind over deck speeds and directions.

thanks
dennis

Hi Dennis, Send me an email
 

Hi Dennis,

Send me an email or give me a call. I can help you with both cases.

Eric