OpenFOAM and DAKOTA: a Complete Guide
Running a single CFD simulation rarely provides enough information to find a good hydraulic or aerodynamic design of a component. In many cases the poor engineer has to wrestle an…
Tag: blockMesh
A Parametric CFD Model: Wind Turbine from Pipes
I’m building a wind turbine and as you might imagine, the blades are Ye Royale Paine In Me Buttocks. Too big for a CNC, too exposed for a 3D print,…
blockMesh for External Flows
The Old-Fashioned blockMesh BlockMesh is the weapon of choice for directly generating rather simple meshes of channels, pipes, 2D-stuff etc. Those are mostly internal flows. With external flows, life gets…
Classy Classes for blockMesh
IMPORTANT! classy_blocks have been massively improved but this article hasn’t. Please refer to readme in repository for most up-to-date information and examples. blockMesh: pros and cons blockMesh is a great…
OpenFOAM meshing: a few shortcuts
Merging Files If you’re using SALOME to create STL files for meshing you can only save separate surfaces to separate files. That’s not a problem if you’re using snappyHexMesh but…
A Parametric CFD Model: Wind Turbine from Pipes
I’m building a wind turbine and as you might imagine, the blades are Ye Royale Paine In Me Buttocks. Too big for a CNC, too exposed for a 3D print,…
blockMesh for External Flows
The Old-Fashioned blockMesh BlockMesh is the weapon of choice for directly generating rather simple meshes of channels, pipes, 2D-stuff etc. Those are mostly internal flows. With external flows, life gets…
Classy Classes for blockMesh
IMPORTANT! classy_blocks have been massively improved but this article hasn’t. Please refer to readme in repository for most up-to-date information and examples. blockMesh: pros and cons blockMesh is a great…
OpenFOAM meshing: a few shortcuts
Merging Files If you’re using SALOME to create STL files for meshing you can only save separate surfaces to separate files. That’s not a problem if you’re using snappyHexMesh but…