Free surface flows in OpenFOAM by Victoria Korchagova

• contributor: Victoria Korchagova, Sergei Strijhak
• affiliation: ISPRAS, Russia, Moscow
• contact: click here for email address
• OpenFOAM version: 3.0.x
• Published under: CC BY-NC-SA license (creative commons licenses)

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Free surface flows in OpenFOAM

In this tutorial you will find a compact introduction to the theory behind free surface flows in OpenFOAM and a step-by-step guide to run the 2D spillway tutorial. You will

• create your mesh with
  • blockMesh
  • snappyHexMesh
  • extrudeMesh
• set the physical properties
• set the boundary conditions
• initialize the fields
• set the numerical schemes

The case files can be found here.