Course program:

• 1. Basics
  

  • Basis of numerical heat transfer analysis 

  • Configuration of OpenFOAM environment

  • Step-by-Step training

• 2. Numerical basics
  

  • Mesh generation

  • Failure analysis of numerical simulations 

  • Keypoints for trustful results

  • Runtime-analysis mechanism

  • Collecting data for professional post processing

• 3. Heat transfer 

  • Overview Understanding of the source code 

  • Using / changing of OpenFOAM syntax

  • Tutorial: Application and Implementation of heat transfer modules in OpenFOAM

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• 4. Heat conduction

  • Concept, Understanding of the source code 

  • Numerical failure analysis 

  • Variation of mesh characterics / solver settings

  • Variation of boundary conditions 

    • fixed Temperature
    • fixed heat flux
    • convective 

  • Tutorial: Heat conduction with variation of parameters

• 5. Heat convection

  • Numerical concept in OpenFOAM

  • Solver / Classification

  • Turbulence models / turbulent heat fluxes

  • Influence of Prandtl number

  • Meshing and failure analysis

  • Compressible / incompressible fluids

  • Buoyant flows

  • Variation of boundary conditions 

  • Wallfunctions

  • Simulation speed up

  • Best practice guides

  • Tutorial: Practical using OpenFOAM for different exanples 

     

     

• 6. Conjugate Heat Transfer

  • Concept and Overview

  • Basic classes and important functions

  • Best practice guide 

  • Fast case setup 

  • Coupled mesh generation

  • Tutorial: Coupling of fluid and solids for complex geometries

• 7. Heat radiation

  • Theory and Implementation

  • Basic equations

  • Modeling in OpenFOAM

  • Decision of different radiation models 

  • Tutorial: Application of different radiation models / case setup

• 8. Using fvOptions 

  • Simplified modeling of heat sources 

  • Model construction / runtime 

  • Numerical settings

• 9. User defined problems