myFoam

The repository contains several additional solvers for OpenFOAM. There are several branches supporting different versions of OpenFOAM:

• master development branch supporting recent OpenFOAM (Foundation and ESI)
• OF6 branch for OpenFOAM 6 and OpenFOAM v1812
• OF5 branch for OpenFOAM 5

The package consists of two sub-directories:

• myFoam containing several extensions to standard OpenFOAM including:
  • some specific boundary conditions,
  • mesh movement solver,
  • Venkatakrisnan limiter.
• Solver containing
  • myLusgsFoam: the LU-SGS solver for steady or transient simulations of turbulent compressible flows,
  • mySonicLiquidFoam: transient solver for trans-sonic/supersonic, laminar flow of a compressible liquid.

Obsolete / removed parts:

• myRhoSimpleFoam: steady state SIMPLE solver for compressible gas with corrections for MRF was removed because OpenFOAM v2312 already contains the correction

Installation

The installation is quite easy, just do

cd myFoam
./Allwmake
cd ../mySolvers
./Allwmake

Tutorial case

There is simple tutorial case in tutorials/myLuSgsFoam. Just run ./Allrun inside that directory.

Notes

• Compatibility with OpenFOAM v2012 there is a change in thermodynamics. The sensible enthalpy of ideal gas is calculated in v2012 as h = cp*(T - Tref) + href whereas h = cp*T in eralier versions. Therefore the solver requires to set Tref = 0 in thermophysicalProperties, see tutorials.

How to cite

Please cite as

@article{Furst2018,
author = {F{\"{u}}rst, Ji\v{r}{\'{\i}}},
doi = {10.1016/j.compfluid.2018.04.020},
issn = {00457930},
journal = {Computers {\&} Fluids},
month = {aug},
pages = {332--339},
title = {Development of a coupled matrix-free {LU-SGS} solver for turbulent compressible flows},
volume = {172},
year = {2018}
}