[Aino]

Hi,

I recently started my diploma thesis in physics and am supposed to model aerosol dispersion, but I'm totally new to the topic of CFD, so if anybody could help me with some basic questions I'd really appreciate it.

My situation is the following:

I inject dust (particle size between 2 and 25 micrometer) into air and measure how far the cloud disperses due to turbulent diffusion. After measuring the vertical distribution of my cloud using a PIV system, I want to compare this to my model, but that's where I got stuck.

A friend suggested to use OpenFoam, so my first question is if it's in general possible to model this scenario? Anyone every done this before? And how do I best get started?

Thanks for any advice or help!