Let there be a script that makes blockMesh usage much, much easier to use. It shall be called classy_blocks. If you don’t know it yet, take a quick scroll through the readme file on github, then come back for an easy tutorial. Installation Recently, classy_blocks has become a python package so it can be installed […]
I solved the problem with burn marks on Klarart‘s laser cutter. Here is the blog post about details. At the end, I mentioned that the air assist nozzle might not be optimally shaped. Immediately I felt guilty for not backing that statement up. Here’s a quick-and-dirty CFD analysis of a wannabe ‘better’ air assist nozzle.
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 awfully long list of design parameters into a state-of-the-art shape. Luckily, OpenFOAM and DAKOTA together provide an almost ready-to-use solution just for that: Sensitivity analysis(long
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, too complicated to be made by hand. I decided to make blades from pipes. This simplifies the build but now how do I know how
All OpenFOAM tutorials have Allrun and Allclean scripts which call some mysterious RunFunctions from even more mysterious sources. The most mysterious thing of all this is how poorly those are documented. Since those are not a big deal, I decided to jot down some remarks so a newcomer can tell what they are for. The
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 tool for creating simple and quick meshes. It also creates structured meshes and offers total control over its cells, which snappyHexMesh (and many other) doesn’t.
I am not going to share my negative opinion on visual aspects of design of this vehicle (although I could be very verbose) but there are some technical issues I need to clarify. There are statements in style of “Tesla Cybertruck could be insanely aerodynamic” or “Tesla’s Cybertruck Aerodynamics Do Flow Smoothly” or even nonsense
Context If you’re creating a multiregion mesh and you found this article you probably already know what SALOME , OpenFOAM, snappyHexMesh and chtMultiRegionFoam mean. In case you dont’ here’s a quick explanation: OpenFOAM is your favourite open-source CFD package, chtMultiRegionFoam is the OpenFOAM solver for conjugate heat transfer simulations, conjugate heat transfer analysis calculates heat
