Sig Turbomachinery

1 OpenFOAM Turbomachinery Working Group

The OpenFOAM Turbomachinery Working Group was initiated at the Second OpenFOAM Workshop in Zagreb, June 2007. See the slides for more information.

Responsibles: Maryse Page, Martin Beaudoin (Hydro-Québec) and Hakan Nilsson (Chalmers).

Join the Sig Turbomachinery e-mail list to be part of the discussions!

Short personal presentations of the people in the group (add a presentation of yourself!)

2 Objectives

• Identify common interests with OpenFOAM for turbomachinery, and plan joint activities.
• Develop OpenFOAM for turbomachinery applications, including pre-processing, solution methods, and post-processing.
• Provide tutorials on how to produce accurate results using OpenFOAM in turbomachines.
• Distribute relevant validation test cases and corresponding OpenFOAM applications.
• Use OpenFOAM to develop Best Practice Guidelines for CFD in turbomachines.
• Connect people with the same interest: OpenFOAM and turbomachinery.
• Organize meetings, workshops and collaborations.

3 Guidelines

Source files and tutorial cases should be located in the OpenFOAM extensions on SourceForge.net under the SVN repository.

Detailed written tutorials should be added to the 'tutorial' workspace below.

4 Work space

• Table of common interests
• Developments
• Tutorials
• Validation test cases
• Best practice guidelines
• Publications
• Meetings

5 Current projects

• Work on specific projects
• Organize the next meeting