CFD

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 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 […]

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RunFunctions: a Quick Cheatsheet

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

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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 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.

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Tesla Cybertruck Aerodynamics

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

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SALOME for multiregion meshing

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

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Truck Aerodynamics

Practical Background Our intuition will tell us that sharp or rounded objects will cause less drag when moving through fluid. Slightly less intuitive is the fact that changing the rear part will reduce drag even more than changing the front. So why is it that on cars and trucks, all drag-reducing effort is being put

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Whistle Science

In a random conversation I recently had, a question popped up: why do whistles whistle? I had no choice but to reach for the most complex tool available: OpenFOAM . All the Trouble It’s quite straightforward, get a model of a whistle and stick it into a solver. At least it seemed that easy at

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