Center of Engineering and Multiscale modeling of Fluid flow
You will learn how to use reactingFOAM solver to simulate a turbulent combustion of methane in air. The simulation is based on the combustion of methane in the Sandia D flame benchmark. reactingFoam is a transient solver for simulating compressible, laminar/turbulent reactive systems. This solver uses stoichiometry expressions and kinetic…
In this post you will learn how to install OpenFOAM v2006 from source pack. The operating system is Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. It is assumed that you are installing OpenFOAM v2006 on a fresh operating system. These steps were also followed for installing OpenFOAM v2006 on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Note: If…
You see an OpenFOAM simulation of a single phase stirred tank reactor using AMI technique. This simulation is performed to find the residence time distribution (RTD) in a stirred tank reactor. In the design and scale-up of chemical reactors, the residence time distribution of fluid particles inside the reactor should…
In this tutorial you will learn how to setup a particle tracing system to obtain the residence time distribution of flow in a T-channel. This method can essentially be applied in conjunction with any incompressible solver, like icoFoam, pisoFoam, pimpleFoam and etc.
In this post you will learn how to install OpenFOAM v1912 from source pack. The operating system is ubuntu 18.04 LTS. It is assumed that you are installing OpenFOAM v1912 on a fresh operating system. A) Download and Initial Checks 1) Downloading source code: go to official website of OpenFOAM…
Two-phase stirred tanks are two phase reactors with enhanced mixing and elongated gas holdup and residence time in comparison to bubble columns. They may contain one or more sets of impellers that promote mixing force and help bubble breakage to enhance gas-liquid contact. In this tutorial, you will learn how…
You will learn how to simulate a bubble column suing OpenFAOM®. All the details on sub-models and simulation settings are presented in this tutorial. You can also see the animation of the simulation results here.
You always face times that you want to add new physical models to your solver. In two-phase simulations, drag model and turbulence model are perhaps two of the most important ones that one may want to change. In this tutorial you will learn how to add these physical models to the…
In this tutorial you will learn how to simulate a gas-solid fluidized bed using OpenFOAM® (twoPhaseEulerFoam). The tutorial also contains a complete description of physical models and available options through which you can customize your simulation. In addition, you can see the animation of this simulation here. The video is…
In this tutorial, you will learn how to install OpenFOAM-7 from source pack. If you already have some components installed on your computer, you may skip some of the steps. This tutorial has been tested on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. A) Download and Initial…