Introduction
Introduction
This offering is not approved or endorsed by ESI® Group, ESI-OpenCFD® or the OpenFOAM®
Foundation, the producer of the OpenFOAM® software and owner of the OpenFOAM® trademark.
Editorial board:
Bahram Haddadi
Technische Universität Wien
Christian Jordan Institute of Chemical, Environmental
& Bioscience Engineering
Michael Harasek
Compatibility:
OpenFOAM® v10
ISBN 978-3-903337-02-2
Publisher: chemical-engineering.at
Available from: www.fluiddynamics.at
OpenFOAM® Basic Training
Preface
In this OpenFOAM® tutorial series, we have prepared fourteen case examples that are
designed to help users to learn the key utilities and features within OpenFOAM ®, including
mesh generation, multiphase modeling, turbulence modeling, parallel processing and
reaction modeling. The base tutorial examples can be imported directly from the
OpenFOAM® installation directory or downloaded from our webpage:
www.fluiddynamics.at.
The tutorials should be primarily used for OpenFOAM® v10 (Foundation version –
www.openfoam.org) but with slight differences, generally applicable to the other flavors of
OpenFOAM® such as ESI-version and foam-extend! The structure of each case example
follow the below general structure:
0. Background: an introduction about the key topics explored in the tutorial and the
relevant CFD theory
1. Pre-processing: instructions on how to set up the correct case structure for a given
problem using base case tutorials, with explanations on relevant dictionaries
2. Running simulation: instructions on running the solver and its associated
commands
3. Post-processing: examining the results in OpenFOAM®’s post-processing
application, ParaView V5.10.1
OpenFOAM® Basic Training
Table of Contents
Appendix D: ParaView
OpenFOAM® Basic Training
Table of Contents