Temperature with adapted solver
 

Hello All,

I would like to adapt simpleFoam solver and add temperature/ heat flux capabilities to a case.

I tried to use the step by step process found on wiki but it doesn't quite work out for me because the $FOAM_USER_APPBIN directory does not exist. Could this have been a problem in my installation? How could I fix it?

robyn@linux-4ifd:~/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6/applications/solvers/incompressible> cd $FOAM_USER_APPBIN
bash: cd: /home/robyn/OpenFOAM/robyn-1.6/applications/bin/linuxGccDPOpt: No such file or directory

Any thoughts on adapting/creating your own solvers? How can you do that?

Thanks in advance for any advice.

Robyn

Robyn,

You just need to create this directory structure, and after that follow the procedures on the wikki.

cd $WM_PROJECT_USER_DIR
mkdir applications
mkdir applications/bin
mkdir applications/bin/linuxGccDPOpt

Good luck
Ricardo

Thank you for the response however I'm not sure that the unpacking of OpenFoam was correct as I only have the run directory under my user.

Should the directories you named also contain similar files as OpenFOAM-1.6?

You can check if your installation is ok by issuing the following command:
foamInstallationTest


At least, the "Critical" items must be tagged as "Valid".
Here is a sample output. I am using 1.7.x, but the output in your case should be similar.
Executing /home/l01291/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.7.x/bin/foamInstallationTest:


Checking basic setup...
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Shell: bash
Host: stokes
OS: Linux version 2.6.32-22-generic
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------


Checking main OpenFOAM env variables...
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Environment_variable Set_to_file_or_directory Valid Crit
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
$WM_PROJECT_INST_DIR /home/l01291/OpenFOAM yes yes
$WM_PROJECT_USER_DIR /home/l01291/OpenFOAM/l01291-1.7.x yes no
$WM_THIRD_PARTY_DIR /home/l01291/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-1.7.x yes yes
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------


Checking the OpenFOAM env variables set on the PATH...
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Environment_variable Set_to_file_or_directory Valid Path Crit
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
$WM_PROJECT_DIR /home/l01291/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.7.x yes yes yes
$FOAM_APPBIN ...1.7.x/applications/bin/linuxGccDPOpt yes yes yes
$FOAM_SITE_APPBIN ...penFOAM/site/1.7.x/bin/linuxGccDPOpt no no
$FOAM_USER_APPBIN ...1.7.x/applications/bin/linuxGccDPOpt yes yes no
$WM_DIR ...l01291/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.7.x/wmake yes yes yes
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------


Checking the OpenFOAM env variables set on the LD_LIBRARY_PATH...
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Environment_variable Set_to_file_or_directory Valid Path Crit
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
$FOAM_LIBBIN ...OAM/OpenFOAM-1.7.x/lib/linuxGccDPOpt yes yes yes
$FOAM_SITE_LIBBIN ...penFOAM/site/1.7.x/lib/linuxGccDPOpt no no
$FOAM_USER_LIBBIN ...nFOAM/l01291-1.7.x/lib/linuxGccDPOpt yes yes no
$MPI_ARCH_PATH ...7.x/platforms/linuxGcc/openmpi-1.4.1 yes yes yes
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------


Third party software
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Software Version Location
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
gcc 4.4.3 /usr/bin/gcc
gzip 1.3.12 /bin/gzip
tar 1.22 /bin/tar
icoFoam 1.7.x .../OpenFOAM-1.7.x/applications/bin/linuxGccDPOpt/icoFoam
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------


Summary
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Base configuration ok.

Critical systems ok.

done.