• Date: Year cycle
• Place: OnLine - University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, HPC Lab (LECAD)
• Author: Aleksander Sandro GRM ([email protected])

Day 1

• Introduction to PDEs, FVM (Finite Volume Method), OpenFOAM structure
• Run simple cavitiy example

Day 2

• Meshing in OpenFOAM: Block Mesh, GMSH
• Show how to use blockMesh: work on simple examples
• Show how to use GMSH: work on simple examples
• Introduction to Turbulent flow
  • Basics of turbulent flow
  • Computation of turbulent mesh resolution
  • Demonstration of advanced cavity with hole case (simulation of flow around tenis ball)
    • BlockMesh and GMS case
    • turbulent flow: steady and transient solution with $k-\omega$ SST turbulent model

Day 3

• Advanced use of OpenFOAM
  • time dependant boundary condition
  • post processing tools
• Demonstration of advanced simulations of fluid flow around NACA00XX profile for different angles of attack
  • BlockMesh and GMS case
  • turbulent flow: steady and transient solution

Tools an Literature

• description of standard tools: OpenFOAM, Python and HPC
• relevant literature for the course

OpenFOAM basics, three day school in a combination with basics of HPC Linux environment.

The current version of sources works for OpenFOAM version 11, downloaded from openfoam.org.