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Old   February 4, 2014, 16:22
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I need to set a temperature boundary condition as convection, i.e.:


heat flux = k*grad(T) = h*(T-T_ext)


Does OpenFOAM have a convection boundary condition?
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Old   February 5, 2014, 05:05
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_boundary_condition

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Old   February 11, 2014, 00:17
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I had worked with the similar type of boundary with groovyBC http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/Contrib/groovyBC
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