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Can someone tell me more about vulashaka

Posted April 10, 2011 at 11:44 by alexey2petrov

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Originally Posted by santiagomarquezd

pythonFlu really rulez. I was using it yesterday with my advisor and extracting data from fields and operate with them via numPy was completely transparent. Here nisi prepared a series of gdb macros in order to debug FOAM easely, now much of this work can be done with pythoFlu, plus the potential of data manipulation inside of the running. I think I'll code some lines in order to export fvMatrix to numPy arrays and things like this.

Keep this party going.

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Atmosphearic flow problem.

Posted April 4, 2011 at 06:37 by vishal

Hi All,

I know its really painful to find correct formulas for calculation of k and Epsilon values, If any of you are dealing with atmosphetic flows. (Exponential valocity inlet or power law). I would recommend to "atmBoundaryLayderInlet" conditions located at

OpenFOAM1.7.1/scr/turbulanceModels/incompressible/RAS/derivedFvPatchFields/atmBoundaryLayerInletEpsilon/atmBoundaryLayerInletVelocity.c file.

over list of values at inlet and...

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Blast from the past: installing OpenFOAM 1.5 in modern Linux boxes

Posted April 2, 2011 at 09:23 by wyldckat
Updated July 30, 2012 at 17:14 by wyldckat (Added v2)

Tags openfoam 1.5, ubuntu 10.xx and above

Here we are in 2011 and we need good oldie OpenFOAM 1.5 to work in our latest über advanced Linux box.
Our trusty gcc compiler nowadays comes in flavours 4.4.x, 4.5.x and 4.6.0 was released a little while ago.
The official release of OpenFOAM 1.5 latest compatible gcc was 4.3.x. And you think to yourself: now what do I do?

Well, not to worry! After a request from the forum user kurne, I rolled up my sleeves and made a cookbook script of a hybrid OpenFOAM 1.5 with 1.7.x script...

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Notes about running OpenFOAM in parallel

Posted February 27, 2011 at 10:22 by wyldckat
Updated October 31, 2015 at 09:25 by wyldckat (added more links)

Tags mpirun, openfoam, parallel

This is a rough list of informations to be compiled and posted on openfoamwiki.net on a page about running OpenFOAM in parallel. If someone picks up on this and wants to start the article in the wiki, be my guest. Leave a comment pointing to the wiki page, so we can cooperate

List of already catalogued applications on the wiki for pre/post processing for parallel mode: http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/Ca...sing_utilities
Yet to be catalogued:

redistributeMesh
renumberMesh

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Linking FLUENT with visual C++ (Tested on 32Bit OS)

Posted February 12, 2011 at 12:10 by Amir
Updated September 14, 2012 at 10:26 by Amir

Tags compile, linking, udf, visual c++

In general, there are 2 different ways to link FLUENT with VC++. In both methods, we need to add fluent to system path which can be easilly done via executing "setenv.exe" which is in FLUENT installation folder.

1) non-permanent method:

In this method, we need to launch FLUENT by VC++ command prompt (which can be found in tools folder of VC++) by simply typing fluent.
In this method, we have to launch FLUENT in this manner whenever we want to compile a UDF....