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Old   September 16, 2014, 08:29
Default fireFoam - implications with "oppositeBurningPanels" tutorial
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Hi I'm finishing my bachelor degree as a fire safety engineer working with the fireFOAM solver for OpenFOAM.
As my major is in the physics of fire and not CFD I'm rather novice in the area compared to many on this forum/website.
At the moment I'm working on trying to run and understand the tutorials given with the OpenFOAM installation and finding difficulty getting "oppostieBurningPanels" to work.
The problem is when running the "blockMesh" function the created directory "points" (found under "constant/polyMesh/points") does not write out the information it is supposed to, looks like this:

/*--------------------------------*- C++ -*----------------------------------*\
| ========= | |
| \\ / F ield | OpenFOAM: The Open Source CFD Toolbox |
| \\ / O peration | Version: 2.2.x |
| \\ / A nd | Web: www.OpenFOAM.org |
| \\/ M anipulation | |
\*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
FoamFile
{
version 2.0;
format binary;
class vectorField;
location "constant/polyMesh";
object points;
}
// * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * //


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As this is supposed to be a fixed and working tutorial i am wondering if I am doing anything wrong or if the problem is located in the tutorial itself. Has anyone else found any problem working with this tutorial or if anyone has a functioning one, would it be possible to share this with me so i can continue with working with using the program.
Because the points are not written I'm stuck here not being able to start a simulation and observe all the details off the results, rather annoying...


For the other two tutorials found "smallPoolFire2D" and "smallPoolFire3D" the creating of the mesh and running the simulation goes fine but when looking at the results for the temperature in ParaView it is but a slight 0,0002 degrees difference from the hotest and coldest areas, now I'm no expert (but working on becoming) at least a 300-900 degrees diffrence should be present to observe for a fire no?
And the temperature-slice for either of these tutorials does not seem to indicate a normal fire in the temperature-diffrence-formation. Neither as a coarse or fine simulation, has anyone else tried running these tutorials with reasonable results?

Grateful for any help and pointers.

Tnx for taking the time reading this!
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