Sig Turbomachinery Feature MixingPlane Interface OpenFOAM-1.6-ext

1 The mixingPlane interface for OpenFOAM-1.6-ext

1.1 Authors

• Martin Beaudoin, Hydro-Québec
• Hrv Jasak, Wikki Ltd.

1.2 Description

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1.3 References

   OpenFOAM TURBO TOOLS: FROM GENERAL PURPOSE CFD TO TURBOMACHINERY SIMULATIONS 
   H. Jasak, M. Beaudoin, Proceedings of ASME-JSME-KSME Joint Fluids
   Engineering Conference 2011, AJK2011-FED, July 24-29, 2011, Hamamatsu,
   Shizuoka, JAPAN 

   Steady-state capabilities for hydroturbines with OpenFOAM,
   M. Page, M. Beaudoin, A.-M. Giroux, Internationnal Journal of Fluid
   Machinery and Systems, 4(1):160–170, Jan-Mar 2011.

   Development of a General Grid Interface for Turbomachinery simulations with
   OpenFOAM, M. Beaudoin, H. Jasak, Open Source CFD International Conference,
   December 2008 

1.4 Availability

• Availability of the mixingPlane_RC1 version
• How to download
• How to compile

1.5 Current limitations

As of January 2012, the limitations of the current mixingPlane implementation (mixingPlane_RC1) are:

• Todo

1.6 Examples of dictionaries configuration

• constant/polyMesh/boundary

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• field value dictionaries in the time directories

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1.7 Specification of mixingPlane reference frame

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1.8 Specification of the mixingPlane discretization profile

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1.9 Running the mixingPlane in parallel

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1.10 The mixingPlaneCheck functionObject

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1.11 The checkMixingPlane utility program

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1.12 Tutorials

• Simplistic examples
• The ERCOFTAC conical diffuser
• The ERCOFTAC centrifugal pump
• Simple rotor-stator examples

1.13 Test harness

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