[jignesh_thaker2007]

Hello Friends

I am trying to solved the two-phase pipe flow problem in OpenFOAM by using interFOAM solver but it will take to much time because grid is around 1000000.
I want to go for parallel programming but i dont know how can i do that?
please anybody explain me how can i go for parallel programming in OpenFOAM.

I am using Inter I5 computer which has 4 core only. But when i solved my problem than it used only one core. I want to use all four core of the computer so i have to go for parallel programming.

I drew geometry and did meshing in gambit and than import in to the openFOAM.

Please anybody explain how i go ahead with parallel programming in OpenFOAM?

[Lieven]

Hi Jignesh,

I would recommend you to have a look at the section 3.11 of the openfoam user guide http://www.openfoam.org/docs/user/. This is a step-by-step explanation of running a job in parallel. Anyway, here is a short summary:

renumberMesh -overwrite
decomposePar
foamJob -p simpleFoam

This is for simpleFoam but this is purely as example. Change it to the solver you need. The 'renumberMesh' is simply there to improve the efficiency of the simulation.

You also need to add a decomposeParDict to system which looks like

/*--------------------------------*- C++ -*----------------------------------*\
| =========                 |                                                 |
| \\      /  F ield         | OpenFOAM: The Open Source CFD Toolbox           |
|  \\    /   O peration     | Version:  2.0.1                                 |
|   \\  /    A nd           | Web:      www.OpenFOAM.com                      |
|    \\/     M anipulation  |                                                 |
\*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
FoamFile
{
    version     2.0;
    format      ascii;
    class       dictionary;
    location    "system";
    object      decomposeParDict;
}
// * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * //

numberOfSubdomains 3;

method          scotch;

// ************************************************************************* //

Note that you could use all 4 processors, but this will jam your system since the operating system won't have a processor for itself. So I recommend you to use 3 at max.

Cheers,

Lieven

[jignesh_thaker2007]

Thanx for your kind reply

Now my code is working in parallel but please inform me how i postprocess it
because i dont know how it will work in paraFOAM

does it work same as single core or i have to make some modifications?

[Lieven]

You can either postProcess every core separately by browsing to the corresponding processor folder and open paraFoam. Or you can use the reconstructPar utility to "undecompose" the case and post-process the case on one processor.