Collection by topic

This is a list of the contributions ordered alphabetically by topic. Also we will constantly add theses as well as publications in a given topic as further reading.

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Meshing

Overview

• A List of meshing tools that integrate with OpenFOAM.

Multiphase modeling

Intro and Overview

• Hoste and Jasak provide a in-depth introduction into a variety of models for multiphase flows.

Volume of Fluid

• Haddadi et al. provide a walk through of the dam break tutorial. The videos of Nagy detail on the same tutorial.
• Guerrero details on setup, control and monitor of VoF simulations.
• Vakhrushev details on the VoF solver, and its application to iron casting.

Postprocessing

• Data inspection using various tools (incl. ParaView).
• Ferras et al. provide 5 cases and guide through the postrpocessing with gnuplot and ParaView.
• Santos provides material on how to use swak4Foam and pyFoam to postprocess data.

• For Lagrangian Data Visualization using ParaView checkout this training material of the NanoSim project. Note, this page also contains instructions to load data from the popular particle dynamics code LAMMPS/LIGGGHTS.

Programming

Complete Programming Courses

• Hoste and Jasak video series on programming.
• Nilsson's collection of programming tutorials.

Intro: Compilation and Testing

• Lee's compact introduction to compilation using existing code.
• The tutorials by Stefan Radl provide details on compilation and basic testing of new code.
• Ferras et al. describe solver, compilation, and testing.

Implementation of Initial and Boundary Conditions

• Guerrero describes how to implement and test BCs using codeStream.
• Guerrero describes field initialization using codeStream.

Customizing solvers

• Rusche's introduction to programming details on version control with git, the build system and customizing solvers.
• Vakhrushev's slides illustrate how to modify a solver.

Debugging

• See the list of tools by Stefan Radl to get an overview of debugging tools.