Theory by Joel Guerrero

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Crash introduction to the FVM and numerical playground

In these slides, you will find a general introduction to the FVM and some details on the numerics implemented in OpenFOAM. The following topics are covered:

  • Brief introduction to the finite volume method
  • CFL number
  • Linear solvers
  • Solution methods
  • Unsteady and steady simulations
  • Monitoring and interpreting the residuals
  • Boundary and initial conditions


In these slides, you will a series of test cases, that you can use to play around with the nmerics. Do not fooled by the cases, they seen to be easy problems, they athey are know to be numberical schemes killers, so you will need to put :

You can download the numerical playground case files in this link.


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