Course Information
Registration period
Year-round Recruitment
Course Level
Study Mode
Duration
3 Hour(s) 41 Minute(s)
Language
English
Taught by
Micheal Bolzon
Rating
Course Overview
Learn how to use OpenFOAM to do CFD simulations of your choice
OpenFOAM is a free and VERY powerful CFD software, rivalling Ansys, Star-CCM+ and the other paid CFD giants.
Using OpenFOAM's highly structured approach to Computational Fluid Dynamics, you can solve your engineering problems, from incompressible, compressible, air, water, and any other fluids, to steady state and transient, to supersonic, OpenFOAM can simulate it.
This course gives you a simple and straightforward guide to how to use OpenFOAM CFD as a complete beginner. It teaches you from the very start how to even install OpenFOAM, through to importing your geometry, meshing it, simulating it, and postprocessing your results to get amazing videos and pictures of the flow in your simulation.
We cover all the aspects you need to run your own simulation, including:
How to change your mesh and get a high quality one
How to choose RANS, URANS, DES, DDES, and IDDES for your simulation
Setting the right boundary conditions
Choosing the turbulence model you want
Increasing the stability of your simulation, so it converges and solves quicker!
Get OpenFOAM to give you the force and moment coefficients of your object, including the drag, lift, side force, pitching moment, rolling moment, and yawing moment coefficients
How to make cut planes to visualize the flow, streamlines, and isolate regions based on various criteria.
Course Content
- 3 section(s)
- 8 lecture(s)
- Section 1 Installing OpenFOAM On Windows And Ubuntu And First Simulations
- Section 2 Running RANS, URANS, DES, DDES, and IDDES Simulations
- Section 3 Postprocessing Results
What You’ll Learn
- Understand how to run a simulation in OpenFOAM from the very start of geometry importation to getting the final results, How to set the boundary conditions of your simulation, Meshing your geometry correctly including setting the boundary layer mesh and the farfield mesh, How to import the geometry you need, How to use the OpenFOAM tutorial files and alter them for your needs, How to set the correct solver in OpenFOAM (simpleFOAM, pisoFOAM, pimpleFOAM), How to run Steady and Unsteady simulations in OpenFOAM, How to specify different turbulence models including the K Epsilon, K Omega, K Omega SST, SST, Spalart Allmaras, How process your results to get high quality images and videos showing how the flow is behaving and developing, Calculate the forces on your geometry during the simulation
