thermoFoam

Overview

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

Usage

Synopsis

thermoFoam [OPTIONS]

Examples

thermoFoam -region region1

Input

Arguments

No arguments required.

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
• Linear equation solvers
• controlDict

Fields

Property	Description	Type	Required	Default
U	Velocity [m/s]	volVectorField	yes	-
T	Temperature [K]	volScalarField	yes	-

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:

• thermoFoam

History: Introduced in version 2.2.0