Literature

OpenFOAM is widely used both in academia and industry. On this page a collection of publication can be found, which are related to OpenFOAM. Publications are ordered by topic.

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Topics

Topics are ordered alphabetically:

Complex materials

• Håkan Nilsson's collection [1] comprises some reports that cover Complex Materials related topics.
• Viscoelastic solvers tutorials available in foam-extend 4.0
• J. Nagy, L. Reith, M. Fischlschweiger, G. Steinbichler: Modeling the influence of flow phenomena on the polymerization of ϵ-Caprolactam, Chemical Engineering Science, Volume 111, p. 85-93, 24 May 2014
• J. Nagy, L. Reith, M. Fischlschweiger, G. Steinbichler: Influence of fiber orientation and geometry variation on flow phenomena and reactive polymerization of ϵ-caprolactam, Chemical Engineering Science, Volume 128, p. 1-10, 25 May 2015

Heat transfer

• M. Nishikawa, H. Otomo, Y. Yoshida, J. Deguchi, M. Tsukamoto and T. Yamamoto: The cooling mechanism of minuscule ribbed surfaces, Sci Rep 10, 5635 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-62288-1

Multiphase modeling

• J. Nagy: Untersuchung von mehrphasigen, kompressiblen Strömungen durch Simulation und Experiment, PhD thesis, Technische Universität Wien, 2012.

Numerics

• H. Jasak, Error analysis and estimation for the finite volume method with applications to fluid flows, Ph.D. thesis, Impreial College, University of London (1996).
• H. G. Weller, G. Tabor, H. Jasak, C. Fureby, A tensorial approach to computational continuum mechanics using object-oriented techniques, Computers in Physics 12 (6) (1998).
• H. Jasak, OpenFOAM: Open source CFD in research and industry, International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, 1 (2) (2009) 89 – 94.

Turbulence modeling

• S. Jakirlic, L. Kutej, P. Unterlechner and C. Tropea: Critical Assessment of Some Popular Scale-Resolving Turbulence Models for Vehicle Aerodynamics, SAE Int. J. Passeng. Cars - Mech. Syst., Volume 10(1), p. 235-250, 2017, doi:10.4271/2017-01-1532.
• M. Islam, F. Decker, E. de Villiers, A. Jackson, J. Gines, T. Grahs, A. Gitt–Gehrke and J. Comas i Font: Application of Detached–Eddy Simulation for Automotive Aerodynamics Development, SAE International, 2009-01-0333, 2009.
• T. Mukha, M. Liefvendahl. Large-eddy simulation of turbulent channel flow. Technical report, Uppsala University, 2015.

Nuclear

• I. Clifford, H. Jasak, The application of a multi-physics toolkit to spatial reactor dynamics, International Conference on Mathematics, Computational Methods and Reactor Physics (2009).
• I. Clifford, A hybrid coarse and fine mesh solution method for prismatic high temperature gas-cooled reactor thermal-fluid analysis, PhD Dissertation, The Pennsylvania State University, US (2013).
• M. Aufiero, Development of Advanced Simulation Tools for Circulating Fuel Nuclear Reactors, PhD thesis, Politecnico di Milano, Italy (2014).
• C. Fiorina, I. Clifford, M. Aufiero, K. Mikityuk, GeN-Foam: a novel OpenFOAM based multi-physics solver for 2D/3D transient analysis of nuclear reactors, Nuclear Engineering and Design 294 (2015) 24 – 37.564.
• S. Radman, C. Fiorina, K. Mikityuk, A. Pautz, A coarse-mesh methodology for modelling of single-phase thermal-hydraulics of ESFR innovative assembly design, Nuclear Engineering and Design 355 (2019).