[aban]

i am new to openFoam. i want to simulate the working of catalytic convertor for my case, for this i have choosen porousSimpleFoam for anlysing the pressure drop across the convertor. bot now i am little confused about the solving procedure in porousSimpleFoam. can anyone provide the steps of solving a problem with openFoam solver porousSimpleFoam. thanks in advance

[Ahmed Khattab]

Originally Posted by aban

i am new to openFoam. i want to simulate the working of catalytic convertor for my case, for this i have choosen porousSimpleFoam for anlysing the pressure drop across the convertor. bot now i am little confused about the solving procedure in porousSimpleFoam. can anyone provide the steps of solving a problem with openFoam solver porousSimpleFoam. thanks in advance

Hi aban,

first of all you must start with simple case and read user manual as you say you are new user. at all, you can run case of porousSimpleFoam included in tutorial cases then make all changes you need.

Good Luck

[aban]

i have searched a lot on the working of simpleFoam and porousSimpleFoam in the user manual as well as other e-documents and was unable to find much information on how the solvers work. so please provide the steps of working of these solvers

[Ahmed Khattab]

Originally Posted by aban

i have searched a lot on the working of simpleFoam and porousSimpleFoam in the user manual as well as other e-documents and was unable to find much information on how the solvers work. so please provide the steps of working of these solvers

Hi Aban,
i meant to start with tutorial discussed in the manual "cavity case". at all you can go with these steps:

1- create new folder on porousSimpleFoam then create three folder within it called 0, costant, system.

2- within every directory create new document with same number and names exists in case angledDuctExplicit.

note: don't copy the case immediately, because it contains shortcuts for files not files so when you make your changes you will change original files not your copy. so open every file and copy its contents in the corresponding file in your case.

3- don't forget to copy Allrun file by the same way.

4- if you go to /constant/polyMesh. you won't find blockMesh file as other cases instead you will file with same name but with .m4 extension so you must compile it with m4 compiler first using this command in terminal

m4 ./home/aban/tutorials/incompressible/porousSimpleFoam/angledDuctExplicit/constant/polyMesh/blockMesh.m4 > ./home/aban/tutorials/incompressible/porousSimpleFoam/angledDuctExplicit/constant/polyMesh/blockMesh

or modify path if your tutorial directory is in other place.

5- now you can run the case by usual commands:
cd ./home/aban/tutorials/incompressible/porousSimpleFoam/angledDuctExplicit

blockMesh

porousSimpleFoam

parafoam

6- you can use this command only after step 3 immediately:

cd ./home/aban/tutorials/incompressible/porousSimpleFoam/angledDuctExplicit

./Allrun

then paraFoam to plot results.

i hope good luck for you . after running the case start to make your modifications.


Good Luck again

Ahmed.

[aban]

thank u for your valued information, but i want to know what is going inside while we run using the solver or how the momentum and continuity equation are been solved. can u provide the step by step procedure or algorithm of how the mass and momentum eq are been solved for each iteration.

[Ahmed Khattab]

Originally Posted by aban

thank u for your valued information, but i want to know what is going inside while we run using the solver or how the momentum and continuity equation are been solved. can u provide the step by step procedure or algorithm of how the mass and momentum eq are been solved for each iteration.

Hi aban,

please check this URLs and download pdf files, it may be helpful.
http://www.tfd.chalmers.se/~hani/kur...ukurReport.pdf

http://www.google.com.eg/url?sa=t&rc...Lt-UilobIeujEw

regards,

[aban]

i have already read through these files and was only about how the prous media is set in the momentum governing equation. there was no information regarding how the pressure, velocity are solved in each iteration. can you provide the algorithm or steps for solving of these p and u each time.

[Ahmed Khattab]

Originally Posted by aban

i have already read through these files and was only about how the prous media is set in the momentum governing equation. there was no information regarding how the pressure, velocity are solved in each iteration. can you provide the algorithm or steps for solving of these p and u each time.

the only way to do this is to go through the solver source code, i can help you find important files, but it would take more time from me to figure out the algorithm.
you will find files at directory:

opt/openFoam210/applications/solvers/incompressible/simpleFoam/porousSimpleFoam.

you will find files for U,P,porousSimpleFoam.

another useful files are in directory:

opt/openFoam210/src/finiteVolume/finiteVolume.

good Luck

[Saran16]

hii Friends

I am new to openfoam actually am modelling a heat exchanger with porous medium on the surface and the wall of the surface has some temperature so when coolant flows there must be temperature drop how to find the temperature drop due to the coolant....


should i go with the porous simplefoam solver or some other solver if some other means please specify the solver........

The flow is a laminar flow and incompressible...............

waiting for your reply

Thank you.......................

[marcello1980]

Originally Posted by Ahmed Khattab

Hi Aban,
i meant to start with tutorial discussed in the manual "cavity case". at all you can go with these steps:

1- create new folder on porousSimpleFoam then create three folder within it called 0, costant, system.

2- within every directory create new document with same number and names exists in case angledDuctExplicit.

note: don't copy the case immediately, because it contains shortcuts for files not files so when you make your changes you will change original files not your copy. so open every file and copy its contents in the corresponding file in your case.

3- don't forget to copy Allrun file by the same way.

4- if you go to /constant/polyMesh. you won't find blockMesh file as other cases instead you will file with same name but with .m4 extension so you must compile it with m4 compiler first using this command in terminal

m4 ./home/aban/tutorials/incompressible/porousSimpleFoam/angledDuctExplicit/constant/polyMesh/blockMesh.m4 > ./home/aban/tutorials/incompressible/porousSimpleFoam/angledDuctExplicit/constant/polyMesh/blockMesh

or modify path if your tutorial directory is in other place.

5- now you can run the case by usual commands:
cd ./home/aban/tutorials/incompressible/porousSimpleFoam/angledDuctExplicit

blockMesh

porousSimpleFoam

parafoam

6- you can use this command only after step 3 immediately:

cd ./home/aban/tutorials/incompressible/porousSimpleFoam/angledDuctExplicit

./Allrun

then paraFoam to plot results.

i hope good luck for you . after running the case start to make your modifications.


Good Luck again

Ahmed.

i am following your writting. -unfortunately, when i copy the folder from the tutorial of openfoam there isn't any polymesh folder. Instead there are folder called trisurface, that in not readable from blockMesh,

[sasa17]

Hello everyone,
I am a junior engineer, I am currently working on OpenFOAM. I want to simulate the flow of water through a porous medium with a certain porosity and permeability. I am using the solver porousSimpleFoam, with the module Darcy Forchheimer to treat the porosity. Does anyone know how to deal if it is the right way or there is another solver?
Have a good day