[massive_turbulence]

I want to setup a system where I have convection heating steam (heat transfer through a metal wall with steam in container) along with moving parts like a piston and valves, sort of like a steam locomotive engine. The question I have is basically what solver do I use that allows for these things all at once.

I noticed pimpleDymFoam can solve for wing motion but that's for an incompressible fluid and steam is definitely compressible. Heat transfer solvers on the other hand don't handle dynamic mesh systems as far as I could tell by looking through tutorials.

Any suggestions?

thanks.

[pbachant]

I don't know much about the solvers, but maybe you can modify pimpleDyMFoam by adding the heat equation, similar to http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/Ho...ure_to_icoFoam.

[massive_turbulence]

Originally Posted by pbachant

I don't know much about the solvers, but maybe you can modify pimpleDyMFoam by adding the heat equation, similar to http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/Ho...ure_to_icoFoam.

Thanks, that's something I can follow, any clues if using an incompressible solver would not be the same though for a compressible need (more specifically for steam). I don't suppose there's a simple way to make pimpleDymFoam run compressible, plus buoyancy???

That's why I use buoyantPimpleFoam and so far I'm getting results but I would like to add a butterfly valve to my simulation too.


thanks

Andrew

[cyril.trp]

Hello!

did you finally succeed to create or use such a solver? I am also interested in heat transfer with mesh motion.

Regards

Cyril

[massive_turbulence]

There is no solver for heat transfer with mesh motion AFAIK.

[Paul Caicedo]

Originally Posted by cyril.trp

Hello!

did you finally succeed to create or use such a solver? I am also interested in heat transfer with mesh motion.

Regards

Cyril

Hello Andrew,

Perhaps, did you use the information on this link (http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/Ho...ure_to_icoFoam) to add the heat transfer process?

Regards,
Paul