Finite Volume Discretization by Hrvoje Jasak

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Part 1:

• contributor: Hrvoje Jasak
• affiliation: Wikki Ltd.
• contact: click here for email address
• OpenFOAM version: every
• published under: CC BY license (creative commons licenses)

Discretisation strategies

This pdf will give a short summary on the best strategies in OpenFOAM to improve your simulation results by optimizing the applied discretization schemes.

You will find suggestions and explanations on the following topics

• gradient scheme
• gradient limiter
• convection discretization
• face interpolation
• diffusion discretization

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Part 2:

• contributor: Hrvoje Jasak and Kenneth Hoste
• affiliation: Wikki Ltd and Dept. of Electronics and Information Systems (ELIS) of Ghent University
• contact: click here for email address - click here for email address
• OpenFOAM version: foam-extend 3.2
• published under: CC BY license (creative commons licenses)
• additional acknowledgements:
  • HPC-UGent [1]
  • Flemish Supercomputer Centre (VSC): [2]
  • SESAMENet [3]

Finite Volume Discretization

In this video you will find a detailed talk on the topic covered in the pdf above.