Session B by Stefan Radl

• contributor: Stefan Radl
• affiliation: Technische Universität Graz, Austria
• contact: click here for email address
• OpenFOAM version: 5.x
• published under: CC BY-NC-SA license (creative commons licenses)

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Session B: Using OpenFOAM

You may now start to use the software! Here is a series of videos that help you to get started: After your first simple cases here are two videos (Part 1, Part 2), which give you information on

• This is the primer: you will get familiar with the main strategy to develop a case.
• This is the case overview: you will get familiar with the structure of a case.
• Basics of blockMesh: you will get build a simple mesh.
• Inspection of controlDict: you will be guided through the main file that controls your case.
• Hints related to Dictionaries: making life easier by displaying options in dictionaries.
• fvSchemes and fvSolution: informs you about key settings of the numerics.
• Sampling and Probing: you will learn essential post-processing steps.
• Visualization 0.1: basics of how to look at your data.
• DPMFoam Part 1, and DPMFoam Part 2: quick look at an Euler-Lagrange solver.
• MPPICFoam: an interesting solver for all uses that like to work with particles!

Listen, and get hands dirty!

Note: videos should display fine on Google Chrome browser. There are some known issues with MS Edge browsers.

Useful background information

• The OpenFOAM user guide has a section on Function Objects that is useful to understand which post-processing can be done by OpenFOAM natively.