Vortex shedding by Joel Guerrero 2D

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  • contributor: Joel Guerrero
  • affiliation: Universita degli Studi di Genova, Wolf Dynamics
  • contact: joel.guerrero@unige.it
  • OpenFOAM version: 4.x
  • published under: CC BY-SA license (creative commons licenses)

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2D Circular cylinder - Vortex shedding

In this tutorial, we setup the classical case of the flow around a 2D circular cylinder at various Reynolds number. We use this case to understand how to setup different solvers and physics (laminar, turbulent, compressible). You will learn,

  • Setting incompressible and compressible cases
  • Running laminar and turbulent cases
  • Interpreting the results
  • Mapping solutions from a coarse mesh to a fine mesh
  • Field initialization to speedup the computation
  • Converting a mesh to OpenFOAM format
  • Sampling, plotting, and scripting
  • Field manipulations
  • Monitoring the solution
  • Running parametrical studies
  • Computing and monitoring forces and other quantities of interest


You can download the case files in the following link


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