Meshing in OpenFOAM by Joel Guerrero

• author: Joel Guerrero
• affiliation: Universita degli Studi di Genova, Wolf Dynamics
• contact: joel.guerrero@unige.it
• OpenFOAM version: 3.0.x
• published under: CC BY-SA license (creative commons licenses)

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Meshing

In this pdf you will find all the important information for meshing your geometry. Depending on your application it might be important to use the correct mesher for a certain flow type. In OpenFOAM you have the possibility to use a wide selection of meshes. In this tutorials you will learn about

• mesh quality assessment (slide 27)
• mesh conversion from external tools (slide 59)
• blockMesh (slide 79)
• snappyHexMesh (slide 151)

In order to download the examples, click:

tutorial files - size approximately 1.4 GB

You only have to download it once, you can find all the cases in the tarball, which you need for all the tutorials of Joel Guerrero.