Training Session

From OpenFOAM workshop 2008

One day OpenFOAM training course

9.00-10.30: OpenFOAM structure:

• organization of the installation: central library or user account
• libraries, solvers, utilities
• file organizations: headers, implementation, include files and templates
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10.30-10.45: coffee break

10.45-12.00: Applications and case setup:

• standard applications
• file organization and control of the run
• setting up initial fields and boundary conditions
• choice of discretisation: convection, diffusion, time derivative, sources and sinks, gradient calculation
• pre-processing in FoamX, mesh conversion, case setup by hand
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12.00-13.30: lunch

13.30-15.30: Programming and customization:

• C++ basic principles
• linking, compiling, profiling, debugging the code
• wmake build system and environment variables
• container types, dictionaries and stream design
• templating
• setting up own executable
• adding a new boundary condition; user-defined library
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• Download training presentation (C++ for CFD)
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15.30-15.45: coffee break

15.45-17.00: Post-processing and advance running options:

• graphical post-processing: paraFoam
• data manipulation
• handling statistics, probes and time-traces
• running OpenFOAM on parallel computers: domain decomposition and reconstruction
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