Overview🔗

• Category: Heat transfer
• steady state
• compressible
• Turbulence
• Thermophysical
• fvOptions

Equations🔗

• SIMPLE algorithm
• Hydrostatic pressure effects

Input requirements🔗

Mandatory fields:

• p: pressure [pa]
• p_rgh: pressure - hydrostatic contribution [pa]
• U: velocity [m/s]
• T: temperature [K]

Physical models🔗

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

Solution controls🔗

• Schemes
• Steady state schemes
• Solvers
• controlDict

Further information🔗

Source code

• $FOAM_SOLVERS/heatTransfer/buoyantSimpleFoam

See also

• simpleFoam
• rhoSimpleFoam

Tutorials

• $FOAM_TUTORIALS/heatTransfer/buoyantSimpleFoam