[Other] One dimensional meshes as they pertain to engine simulation

burdickjp · July 9, 2012, 16:21

I'm working my way through Gordon P. Blair's "Design and Simulation of Four-Stroke Engines" as an exercise. Using it and a few more references I am building engine modeling tools, and posting as an open-source project here:
https://sourceforge.net/p/openenginesim/wiki/Home/
I'm mainly working in Python, and have been looking into PyFOAM and/or PyFlu to interface with OpenFOAM.

Chapter 2 of Prof. Blair's work deals with gas flow as single-dimensional cylindrical meshes. I was wondering if anyone could help me with what would be involved in translating this into OpenFOAM, PyFoam, or PyFlu terms.
I'm sure one-dimensional cylindrical meshes are stupidly trivial, the OpenFOAM documentation dives so quickly into the more advanced cases that I can't seem to razor this thing down to simpler methods.
If someone has a copy of the book and is willing to help me through the process of getting OpenFOAM tied in to what I'm trying to accomplish via PyFlu and/or PyFOAM I'd appreciate the instruction.

Thank you!

burdickjp · July 18, 2012, 14:14

Can anyone point me in the right direction to be able to accomplish this?

July 9, 2012, 16:21	One dimensional meshes as they pertain to engine simulation	#1
burdickjp New Member Jeffrey P Burdick Join Date: Jul 2012 Posts: 2 Rep Power: 0	I'm working my way through Gordon P. Blair's "Design and Simulation of Four-Stroke Engines" as an exercise. Using it and a few more references I am building engine modeling tools, and posting as an open-source project here: https://sourceforge.net/p/openenginesim/wiki/Home/ I'm mainly working in Python, and have been looking into PyFOAM and/or PyFlu to interface with OpenFOAM. Chapter 2 of Prof. Blair's work deals with gas flow as single-dimensional cylindrical meshes. I was wondering if anyone could help me with what would be involved in translating this into OpenFOAM, PyFoam, or PyFlu terms. I'm sure one-dimensional cylindrical meshes are stupidly trivial, the OpenFOAM documentation dives so quickly into the more advanced cases that I can't seem to razor this thing down to simpler methods. If someone has a copy of the book and is willing to help me through the process of getting OpenFOAM tied in to what I'm trying to accomplish via PyFlu and/or PyFOAM I'd appreciate the instruction. Thank you!

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July 18, 2012, 14:14		#2
burdickjp New Member Jeffrey P Burdick Join Date: Jul 2012 Posts: 2 Rep Power: 0	Can anyone point me in the right direction to be able to accomplish this?