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Pressure units in incompressible solvers

Posted February 23, 2017 at 04:17 by kindle

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I am quite new to OpenFOAM, and have some basic questions about units. From the tutorial cases I see that the units for pressure in incompressible solvers (e.g. simpleFoam) are m^2/s^2. Which make sense since pressure is constant. I guess I then have to scale (divide) my pressure initial and boundary conditions with rho in order to get a correct solution? My real question is: can I define my pressure units to be kg/ms^2 and define density rho in the transportProperties file
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