Basic programming by Hakan Nilsson

• contributor: Håkan Nilsson
• affiliation: Department of Applied Mechanics, Chalmers University
• contact: click here for email address
• OpenFOAM version: 2.4
• published under: CC BY-NC-SA license (creative commons licenses)
• origin: http://www.tfd.chalmers.se/~hani/kurser/OS_CFD_2015

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icoFoam and pisoFoam by Håkan Nilsson

This pdf gives you a compact explanation on the difference between a laminar and a turbulent solver in OpenFOAM. This is important to know, if you want to decide, which solver in OpenFOAM you would like to use for your specific application. You will learn about

• icoFoam
• pisoFoam
• the PISO algorithm
• write statements
• inclusion of turbulence modelling