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Old   September 15, 2009, 23:12
Default conjugateHeatFoam: Should solid and fluid have the same mesh at the coupled boundary?
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Hi all,

Should the solid region and fluid region have the same mesh grid at the coupled boundary when using the conjugateHeatFoam solver?

Will it work if I define the coupled boundary for solid and fluid as following:

For solid:

cavityTop
{
type regionCouple;
nFaces 50;
startFace 8890;

shadowRegion region0;
shadowPatch polymerMeltTop;
attached on;
}


For fluid:

polymerMeltTop
{
type regionCouple;
nFaces 100;
startFace 3920;

shadowRegion solid;
shadowPatch cavityTop;
attached on;
}


Thanks in advance.

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Hi,

is conjugateHeatFOAM same as chtMultiRegionFoam?

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is conjugateHeatFOAM same as chtMultiRegionFoam?

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No. chtMRF does coupling by copying values at the domain boundary, while conjugateHF assembles a large matrix for all domains and solves it as one.
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No. chtMRF does coupling by copying values at the domain boundary, while conjugateHF assembles a large matrix for all domains and solves it as one.

I have a simple case with hot fluid region, with zero fluid velocity, and cold solid region. I'd like simulate heat transfer between the regions. Which one of these solvers would you recommend?

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Hi Jitao
It seems they did an interpolation at the coupled interface, so you don't have to set the same mesh.

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I have a simple case with hot fluid region, with zero fluid velocity, and cold solid region. I'd like simulate heat transfer between the regions. Which one of these solvers would you recommend?

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chtMRF should work just fine and is part of the standard OpenFOAM package.
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Hi Jitao
It seems they did an interpolation at the coupled interface, so you don't have to set the same mesh.

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Hi Junwei,

Thanks for your kind reply to my post above. I will try it out.

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