Theory by Joel Guerrero

• contributor: Joel Guerrero
• affiliation: Universita degli Studi di Genova, Wolf Dynamics
• contact: click here for email address
• OpenFOAM version: 3.0.x
• published under: CC BY-SA license (creative commons licenses)

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Crash introduction to CFD and the FVM

In this pdf you will find a very detailed introduction into the theory of CFD in OpenFOAM. The covered topics are:

• finite volume method (slide 3)
• CFL number (slide 80)
• linear solvers (slide 180)
• solution methods (slide 222)
• unsteady and steady simulation (slide 248)
• residuals (slide 279)
• boundary and initial conditions (slide 303)

For the simulations download the initial case setups here:

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.