Cavity by Alex Vakhrushev

• author: Alexander Vakhrushev
• affiliation: Montanuniversität Leoben, Austria
• contact: alexander.vakhrushev@unileoben.ac.at
• OpenFOAM version: ???
• Published under: CC ??? license ([https:// creativecommons.org/licenses creative commons licenses])

Go back to Day 1.

[https:// www.dropbox.com/sh/nu3cyx1ekft6wax/AAA8JPGggqn-nuVCj6DACe_Ca/01__Lectures_OpenFOAM__Introduction.pdf?dl=0 Cavity tutorial by Alexander Vakhrushev]

The cavity tutorial is one of the most basic and easiest tutorials. We will come back to it later in more detail. Here, you will get a fast walkthrough with a good explanation about

• the mesh
• running the case
• postprocessing the results.

As a first step:

• click on the [https:// www.dropbox.com/sh/nu3cyx1ekft6wax/AAA8JPGggqn-nuVCj6DACe_Ca/01__Lectures_OpenFOAM__Introduction.pdf?dl=0 link]
• go to slide 20 (feel free to read the slides before)
• open a terminal on your computer (ctrl+alt+t)

From here you can follow the tutorial on slide 20. If you do not know, where you OpenFOAM installation is, you can also

• type "tut" to jump into the tutorial folder of OpenFOAM
• type

>> cd incompressible/icoFoam/cavity

to go into the folder of cavity

From here you can copy the case to the location of your preference and follow the instructions in the [https:// www.dropbox.com/sh/nu3cyx1ekft6wax/AAA8JPGggqn-nuVCj6DACe_Ca/01__Lectures_OpenFOAM__Introduction.pdf?dl=0 pdf].