[smillion]

I'm not sure if someone has already asked this question. But hopefully some of you guys and girls can help me out.

2010 will be my final year as a mechanical engineering student and my final year thesis will require me to use Openfoam.
My supervisor has suggested I browse through two CFD books which are called:
CFD basics with applications by John D Anderson
and
An Introduction to CFD - The Finite Volume Method by Versteeg and Malalasekera.

I'm sure many of you have heard of these books but the contents of the book seems so overwhelming that I don't know whether I should browse through it or read the entire book.

I have to admit that my weak point is programming so I'm somewhat cautious about using Openfoam.

I would appreciate if some of you could provide some tips and briefly guide me.

Thanks

smillion

[DoHander]

You should read first the book of Malasekera it contains most of the finite volume theory used in a modern CFD solver like OpenFoam. The book of Anderson is OK but it is more finite difference centered, however it will be a good lecture.

I'm not sure if you need to look into the source code of OpenFoam but if you need to ... take a C++ course (you've said you are not so good at programming).

Do

[CFDtoy]

Hi there,
I have long list of openFoam lectures and implementation written down in my blog. http://cfdtoy.blogspot.com. If you require something more detailed let me knw I will try figuring that out for ya.

/CFDtoy

Originally Posted by smillion

I'm not sure if someone has already asked this question. But hopefully some of you guys and girls can help me out.

2010 will be my final year as a mechanical engineering student and my final year thesis will require me to use Openfoam.
My supervisor has suggested I browse through two CFD books which are called:
CFD basics with applications by John D Anderson
and
An Introduction to CFD - The Finite Volume Method by Versteeg and Malalasekera.

I'm sure many of you have heard of these books but the contents of the book seems so overwhelming that I don't know whether I should browse through it or read the entire book.

I have to admit that my weak point is programming so I'm somewhat cautious about using Openfoam.

I would appreciate if some of you could provide some tips and briefly guide me.

Thanks

smillion