advice for modeling water tank

ryan_c · November 15, 2012, 00:43

Hello All:
I am looking for advice in modeling flow in a drinking water storage tank. I have some past experience with Fluent. I have gone through the Openfoam tutorials and ran a few of my own test cases on smaller meshes but am otherwise fairly new to Openfoam. The test cases I have run used simplefoam to model single phase incompressible isothermic flow. I would like to progress to a multiphase model that includes water in the bottom of the tank overlain with a layer of air and includes buoyancy effects from differential water temperatures. In looking at the models, I have not seen any that combine multiphase flow and heat transfer.

Any suggestions? Thank you in advance.

Lieven · November 15, 2012, 17:42

It seems that the best option is to write a new solver combining interFoam with buoyantBoussinesqPimpleFoam.

November 15, 2012, 00:43	advice for modeling water tank	#1
ryan_c New Member Ryan Join Date: Nov 2012 Posts: 1 Rep Power: 0	Hello All: I am looking for advice in modeling flow in a drinking water storage tank. I have some past experience with Fluent. I have gone through the Openfoam tutorials and ran a few of my own test cases on smaller meshes but am otherwise fairly new to Openfoam. The test cases I have run used simplefoam to model single phase incompressible isothermic flow. I would like to progress to a multiphase model that includes water in the bottom of the tank overlain with a layer of air and includes buoyancy effects from differential water temperatures. In looking at the models, I have not seen any that combine multiphase flow and heat transfer. Any suggestions? Thank you in advance.

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November 15, 2012, 17:42		#2
Lieven Senior Member Lieven Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Leuven, Belgium Posts: 299 Rep Power: 23	It seems that the best option is to write a new solver combining interFoam with buoyantBoussinesqPimpleFoam.