OpenFOAM Intermediate

OpenFOAM Intermediate, available at $64.99, has an average rating of 4.39, with 75 lectures, based on 536 reviews, and has 3207 subscribers.

You will learn about OpenFOAM snappyHexMesh Computational Fluid Dynamics This course is ideal for individuals who are OpenFOAM users looking to learn the most practical and versatile aspects of the program – those few things that everybody uses most in practice! or Researchers, engineers and hobbyists looking to enter the world of computational fluid dynamics It is particularly useful for OpenFOAM users looking to learn the most practical and versatile aspects of the program – those few things that everybody uses most in practice! or Researchers, engineers and hobbyists looking to enter the world of computational fluid dynamics.

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Summary

Title: OpenFOAM Intermediate

Price: $64.99

Average Rating: 4.39

Number of Lectures: 75

Number of Published Lectures: 75

Number of Curriculum Items: 75

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 75

Original Price: £44.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

OpenFOAM
snappyHexMesh
Computational Fluid Dynamics

Who Should Attend

OpenFOAM users looking to learn the most practical and versatile aspects of the program – those few things that everybody uses most in practice!
Researchers, engineers and hobbyists looking to enter the world of computational fluid dynamics

Target Audiences

OpenFOAM users looking to learn the most practical and versatile aspects of the program – those few things that everybody uses most in practice!
Researchers, engineers and hobbyists looking to enter the world of computational fluid dynamics

The results are in – OpenFOAM can solve all the major industrial CFD problems that established competitors can. The power to design anything from jet airplanes and engines to pipes and heat exchangers is a simple download away. Unfortunately, as I learned the first time I used it, OpenFOAM has a very steep learning curve. Having learned the basics several years ago I quickly realised just how complicated CFD could get. Even though I knew how to set up a case and use blockMesh with some simple solvers it wasn’t always clear how to do realistic problems with knowledge of the basics. The principle difficulties were:

– Turbulence: all the really interesting flows included some aspect of this and it’s often more art than science!

– Meshing: simple meshes can’t account for fighter jet bodies or turbine blades, I knew there must be a better way.

– Mesh Behaviour and Convergence: without solutions with which to compare I never knew whether I could trust my results.

I made this course with my younger self in mind. It’s these things, among other tips and tricks, that gave me the most trouble in practice and which require the most experience/correct techniques to do well. The aim of this course, by its end, is to show you how to do this. There are many specialist topics that we can’t cover and to learn CFD to an industry standard (where salaries past $100,000 a year are not unusual) could easily span a PhD and many years experience. Even so, there are a few general skills you will need again and again when you face practical problems in CFD. If you can master these, in my experience, you can pick up a lot of the rest as you go and quickly acquire the skills that are already propelling modern engineering into the future.

Disclaimer:

This course is not a substitute for a degree in aerospace engineering or specialist consultancy, by purchasing this course you agree that the course instructor is in no way liable for any disputes, claims, losses, injuries, or damage of any kind that might arise out of or relate to the content of this course or any supporting communications between instructor and student.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Installation and Introduction

Lecture 1: Are you "Intermediate" with OpenFOAM?

Lecture 2: What Will You Learn?

Chapter 2: Tutorials – Basics

Lecture 1: Intro 01

Lecture 2: Intro 02

Lecture 3: Intro 03

Lecture 4: Intro 04

Lecture 5: laplacianFoam 01

Lecture 6: laplacianFoam 02

Lecture 7: laplacianFoam 03

Lecture 8: laplacianFoam 04

Lecture 9: laplacianFoam 05

Lecture 10: laplacianFoam 06

Lecture 11: laplacianFoam 07

Lecture 12: potentialFoam 01

Lecture 13: potentialFoam 02

Lecture 14: potentialFoam 03

Lecture 15: potentialFoam 04

Lecture 16: potentialFoam 05

Lecture 17: potentialFoam 06

Lecture 18: potentialFoam 07

Lecture 19: potentialFoam 08

Lecture 20: scalarTransportFoam – a first look

Lecture 21: scalarTransportFoam 02

Lecture 22: scalarTransportFoam 03

Lecture 23: scalarTransportFoam 04 – simulation results

Lecture 24: scalarTransportFoam – the balance of convection and diffusion

Chapter 3: Incompressible

Lecture 1: icoFoam – a first look

Lecture 2: icoFoam 02 – case setup and examining the solver prt 1

Lecture 3: icoFoam 03 – examining the solver prt 2

Lecture 4: icoFoam 04 – simulation results

Chapter 4: Turbulence

Lecture 1: Turbulence Modelling Overview

Lecture 2: Turbulence Modelling DNS

Lecture 3: Turbulence Modelling RAS

Lecture 4: Turbulence Modelling LES

Lecture 5: Spalart-Allmaras – the aerospace solver

Lecture 6: Spalart-Allmaras – running the solver and results

Lecture 7: Spalart-Allmaras – examining results and boundary conditions

Lecture 8: Spalart-Allmaras – setting up Spalart-Allmaras

Lecture 9: k-Epsilon – setting up our case

Lecture 10: k-Epsilon – patches and initial conditions

Lecture 11: k-Epsilon – wind around buildings results prt 1

Lecture 12: k-Epsilon – wind around buildings results prt 2

Lecture 13: k-Omega – examining case files

Lecture 14: k-Omega – results and initial values

Lecture 15: k-Omega – initialising omega

Lecture 16: LES – setting initial conditions

Lecture 17: LES – setting up the mesh

Lecture 18: LES – examining results

Chapter 5: Multiphase Flow

Lecture 1: multiPhase – setting up sloshingTank2D

Lecture 2: multiPhase – initial conditions and mesh motion

Chapter 6: snappyHexMesh

Lecture 1: Meshing and when to use snappyHexMesh

Lecture 2: snappyHexMesh – first run

Lecture 3: snappyHexMesh – castellated mesh

Lecture 4: snappyHexMesh – snapping and boundary layer

Lecture 5: The snappyHexMeshDict file

Lecture 6: Making a sphere – building our geometry in Blender

Lecture 7: Meshing a sphere – importing geometry

Lecture 8: Meshing a sphere – managing imported geometry

Lecture 9: Meshing a sphere- surfaceTransformPoints

Lecture 10: Meshing a sphere – castillated mesh and snapping

Lecture 11: Meshing a sphere – boundary layers

Chapter 7: Checking Your Results

Lecture 1: Approach 1: Residuals

Lecture 2: Approach 2: checkMesh

Lecture 3: Approaches 3 and 4: Experiment and Analytical Solution

Lecture 4: Approach 5: Grid/Mesh Convergence

Lecture 5: Mesh Convergence – preparing your study

Lecture 6: Mesh Convergence – setting blockMesh scales

Lecture 7: Mesh Convergence – building your 3 meshes

Lecture 8: Mesh Convergence – running the cases

Lecture 9: Mesh Convergence – examining results

Lecture 10: Mesh Convergence – Getting a graph

Lecture 11: Mesh Convergence – Formulae

Lecture 12: Mesh Convergence – Using Formulae (p, F0 and GCI)

Lecture 13: Mesh Convergence – Using Formulae (checking GCI is in region of convergence)

Lecture 14: Plotting Residuals

Instructors

Philip Baldock
Physics Grad, Programmer and Illustrator

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2 stars: 19 votes
3 stars: 55 votes
4 stars: 197 votes
5 stars: 259 votes

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