Overview🔗

• Category: Heat transfer
• Transient
• Frozen flow
• Turbulence
• Thermophysical
• fvOptions

Usage🔗

Synopsis🔗

thermoFoam [OPTIONS]

Examples

thermoFoam -region region1

Input🔗

Arguments

No argument needed.

Options

  -case <dir>       Case directory (instead of current directory)
  -decomposeParDict <file>
                    Alternative decomposePar dictionary file
  -dry-run          Check case set-up only using a single time step
  -dry-run-write    Check case set-up and write only using a single time step
  -parallel         Run in parallel
  -postProcess      Execute functionObjects only
  -doc              Display documentation in browser
  -help             Display short help and exit
  -help-full        Display full help and exit

Files🔗

• Schemes
• Solvers
• controlDict

Fields

Models

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

Method🔗

The solver can employ the SIMPLE or the PIMPLE algorithm to solve the energy transport equation on a frozen flow field:

• Energy transport equation

Further information🔗

Tutorial:

• None

Source code:

• $FOAM_SOLVERS/heatTransfer/thermoFoam

History:

• Introduced in version 2.2.0