Overview🔗

• Category: Combustion
• transient
• compressible
• Turbulence
• fvOptions
• heat transfer
• chemistry
• combustion
• surface film
• pyrolysis
• multi-region: film and pyrolysis regions

Equations🔗

• PIMPLE algorithm
• Hydrostatic pressure effects

Input requirements🔗

Mandatory fields🔗

• p: pressure [pa]
• p_rgh: pressure - hydrostatic contribution [pa]
• U: velocity [m/s]
• T: temperature [K]
• specie fields, e.g. N2, O2 depending on choice of thermophysical modelling

Physical models🔗

• turbulence: constant/turbulenceProperties
• heat transfer: constant/thermophysicalModels
• chemistry: constant/chemistryProperties
• combustion: constant/combustionProperties
• finite volume options: constant/fvOptions (optional)

Solution controls🔗

• Schemes
• Solvers
• controlDict

Further information🔗

Source code

• $FOAM_SOLVERS/combustion/fireFoam

See also

• reactingFoam

Tutorials

• $FOAM_TUTORIALS/combustion/fireFoam