Taylor Couette flow by Andras Horvath

• author: Andras Horvath
• affiliation: Rheologic GmbH
• contact: andras.horvath@rheologic.at
• OpenFOAM version: 4.x
• published under: CC BY-ND license ([https:// creativecommons.org/licenses creative commons licenses])

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Taylor Couette flow

In this pdf you will find a compact description of a well known flow from literature. In this tutorial you will run a simple steady-state simulation, where you can directly compare the quality of your results with literature values.

You can download the case files here.

In this tutorial we focus on:

• case, geometry and mesh setup
• boundary conditions
• solution evaluation and post processing
• comparison with theory and experiments from literature