IAPWS-IF97-OpenFOAM-v8

IAPWS-IF97 Properties of Water and Steam library compatible for OpenFOAM v8.

• Installation introduction

  • run following command in terminal to compile the lib

    wmake libso

• usage

  • add the compiled lib in file controlDict like that:

    libs
    (
    "libfluidThermophysicalModelsNew.so"
    )

    • set IAPWS-IF97 in constant/thermophysicalProperties simply with:

    /*--------------------------------*- C++ -*----------------------------------*\
     =========                 |
     \\      /  F ield         | OpenFOAM: The Open Source CFD Toolbox
      \\    /   O peration     | Website:  https://openfoam.org
       \\  /    A nd           | Version:  8
        \\/     M anipulation  |
    \*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
    FoamFile
    {
       version     2.0;
       format      ascii;
       class       dictionary;
       location    "constant";
       object      thermophysicalProperties;
    }
    // * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * //
    
    thermoType  IAPWSThermo;

  • run the case as normal:

    decomposePar
    mpirun -np 4 buoyantSimpleFoam -parallel

• result of test case buoyantCavity_IAWPS: