Melbourne, Australia, July 26 & 27, 2012

This two-day course is delivered by Dr Darrin Stephens at Applied CCM Pty Ltd.

Description:

The two day introductory training in OpenFOAM is designed to enable CFD practitioners to start using OpenFOAM for practical computations. The methodology employed consists of a series of lectures that provide a general understanding of OpenFOAM topics followed by hands-on work. No knowledge of the OpenFOAM library is assumed. Rudimentary Linux commands and their relationships to hands-on examples are explained. This training focuses on the OpenFOAM Foundation version 2.1.1 of OpenFOAM.

Overview:

Day 1

-Introduction

-Overview of Linux commands

-OpenFOAM: A library for Scientific Computing

-Mesh generation, conversion and set-up: importing Fluent meshes,

-Material properties, initial and boundary conditions, Running the solver,

-Hand-on examples.

Day 2

-Finite Volume Discretisation: theoretical base of OpenFOAM,

-Field inialisation, post-processing and field probes,

-Hands-on examples,

-Mesh generation with Pointwise,

-Turbulence models and bounday conditions,

-Using OpenFOAM in parallel.

A hard copy of the training notes will be provided together with a USB stick with a working copy of OpenFOAM and workshop files from the course. For hands-on examples, attendees will have access to desktop computers with OpenFOAM installed.