[kevinlea]

Hi all,

I am a beginner for OpenFOAM. My school project requires me to model fluid flow in a stirred tank reactor (a cylinder with impeller blades at the center to move liquid in rotation).

I am just hoping someone can give some advice to my workflow on this CFD project. Not seeking exact solution here, but just pondering if this is a feasible approach.

1. Use blender to make the cylinder surface, the impeller and rod holding the impeller.

2. Then export as stl. file, and then use snappyHexMesh (do it need Swiftsnap plugin for blender for this?) for meshing the CAD model.

3. Then in OpenFOAM, I can use moving reference frame approach (to simulate rotating blades) with RANS solver (for turbulent flow) to simulate the flow?

Thank you for your help!
Kevin