CFD-Lab Using OpenFOAM

  • type: practical course
  • semester: WS 24/25
  • place:

    30.41 Room 132
  • time:

    24.02.-28.02.2025
  • lecturer:

    Dr.-Ing. Rainer Koch
  • sws: 3
  • ects: 4
  • lv-no.: 2169459
  • exam:

    Successful solution of the exercises.
  • information:

    Supervision
    Markus Wicker, M.Sc.

     

    You can register on this page using the form provided. The link to the ILIAS course will take you to a date survey. After evaluation of the survey, the registration form will be activated here.

    The number of participants is limited to 20.
    The practical course will only take place if there is a minimum number of participants.
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Goals and content

Learning Objectives:

Students will be able to:

  • Apply OpenFOAM
  • Generate or import grids in OpenFOAM
  • Determine and define suitable boundary conditions
  • Estimate and evaluate numerical errors
  • Evaluate and select turbulence models
  • Simulate 2-phase flows with suitable models
Course content:
  • Introduction to OpenFOAM
  • Grid generation
  • Boundary conditions
  • Numerical errors
  • Discretization methods
  • Turbulence models
  • 2-phase flow - spray
  • Reacting flows
Media:

None

Prerequisites:
  • Fluid Mechanics


Recommendations:

  • Basic knowledge in LINUX
  • Lecture on computational fluid dynamics
Workload:

5 days of 8 h each = 40 h

References:

Information and documentation on OpenFOAM: https://openfoam.org