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| − | |* How to create | + | |* How to create simple geometry |
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| − | | In '''CFD''' the | + | | In '''CFD''' the Pre-processing part consists of creating geometry and meshing it. |
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| − | | Recall the '''path''' for the earlier tutorial | + | | Recall the '''path''' for the earlier tutorial. |
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| − | | In this, there is another folder called as ' | + | | In this, there is another folder called as 'polyMesh'. |
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| − | | Let me switch back to the '''slide''' | + | | Let me switch back to the '''slide'''. |
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| − | | The blocks are numbered starting from | + | | The blocks are numbered starting from 0 (zero) as shown in the figure. |
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| − | | Note that in | + | | Note that in OpenFOAM, for creating a 2D geometry you need to give an unit cell thickness value in the z-axis. |
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| − | | On your desktop, create an empty file by right click > create document > Empty file. Name this as 'blockMeshDict | + | | On your desktop, create an empty file by right click > '''create document > Empty file'''. Name this as 'blockMeshDict'. (Note that M and D here are capital). |
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| − | | Open this. Now | + | | Open this. Now, copy the data from the original '''lid driven cavity''' 'blockMeshDict' file to the new 'blockMeshDict' file from line 0. |
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| − | | Press the tab key. Start with point 0, insert open, close brackets, '''Enter'''. | + | | Press the '''tab''' key. Start with point 0, insert open, close brackets, '''Enter'''. |
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| − | | '''0 space 0 space 0 '''and press '''Enter'''. Again, press tab key, open close bracket . | + | | '''0 space 0 space 0 '''and press '''Enter'''. Again, press '''tab''' key, open close bracket . |
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| − | | | + | | Move towards point 1 in positive x-axis and enter ''' 1 space 0 space 0''' and press '''Enter'''. |
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| − | |Again press tab key, open close bracket. Move towards point 2 in positive x-y plane and enter '''1 space 1 space 0''' and press '''Enter'''. | + | |Again press the tab key, open close bracket. Move towards point 2 in the positive x-y plane and enter '''1 space 1 space 0''' and press '''Enter'''. |
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| − | |Again press tab key, open close bracket. Enter the 3rd point in positive y-axis '''0 space 1 space 0 ''', press '''Enter'''. | + | |Again press '''tab''' key, open close bracket. Enter the 3rd point in positive y-axis '''0 space 1 space 0 ''', press '''Enter'''. |
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| − | | Again press tab key. Enter the 4th point on the front face, open close bracket '''0 space 0 space 0.1''' and press '''Enter'''. | + | | Again press the '''tab''' key. Enter the 4th point on the front face, open close bracket, '''0 space 0 space 0.1''' and press '''Enter'''. |
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| − | | Below vertices are the blocks. Type blocks and press '''Enter'''. Insert a | + | | Below vertices are the blocks. Type blocks and press '''Enter'''. Insert a open bracket and press '''Enter'''. |
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| − | |Enter the points for the | + | |Enter the points for the block in the clockwise sense. |
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| − | |We are using here '''hexa | + | |We are using here '''hexa hedral blocks '''for '''meshing.''' |
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| − | |Now, type "hex". Leave some space. In brackets, enter ''' 0 space | + | |Now, type "hex". Leave some space. In brackets, enter ''' 0 space 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ''', again leave some space. |
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| − | |After this, enter the grid points in the x, y and z directions. | + | |After this, enter the '''grid''' points in the x, y and z directions. |
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| − | |Grid point in z-axis can be taken as one. | + | |Grid point in the z-axis can be taken as one. |
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| − | |Now, leave some space and type "simple | + | |Now, leave some space and type "simple Grading". Leave some space, open close bracket, enter '''1 space 1 space 1 '''. |
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| − | | This is the grid spacing in the x, y and z | + | | This is the grid spacing in the x, y and z directions. Press '''Enter'''. |
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| − | | As this is a simple geometry | + | | As this is a simple geometry, '''edges''' can be kept empty. |
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| − | | Insert open bracket, press '''Enter''', close the bracket | + | | Insert open bracket, press '''Enter''', close the bracket. Insert a semicolon and press '''Enter'''. |
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| − | | Here you need to enter the '''boundary | + | | Here you need to enter the '''boundary names''' for the '''faces'''. |
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| − | |Now let me switch back to the slides. | + | |Now, let me switch back to the slides. |
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Revision as of 13:28, 23 June 2016
| Time | Narration |
| 00:01 | Hello and welcome to the spoken tutorial on creating simple geometry in OpenFOAM. |
| 00:06 | In this tutorial, I will show you: |
| 00:08 | * How to create simple geometry |
| 00:11 | * How to view the geometry in paraview. |
| 00:15 | To record this tutorial, |
| 00:16 | I am using:
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| 00:27 | In CFD the Pre-processing part consists of creating geometry and meshing it. |
| 00:33 | Let us take the Lid driven cavity case of the previous tutorial as an example. |
| 00:38 | Recall the path for the earlier tutorial. |
| 00:40 | I have already opened the command terminal and entered the path for lid driven cavity. |
| 00:48 | There are three folders '0, constant' and 'system'. 'Geometry' is inside the 'polymesh' folder of 'constant'. |
| 00:55 | In the command terminal, type: cd space constant and press Enter. |
| 01:03 | Now, type "ls" and press Enter. |
| 01:06 | In this, there is another folder called as 'polyMesh'. |
| 01:10 | Now type: cd space polymesh and press Enter. |
| 01:18 | Now type "ls" and press Enter. |
| 01:22 | This contains the 'geometry' file called as 'blockMeshDict'. |
| 01:26 | Open the 'blockMeshDict' file with any editor of your choice. |
| 01:30 | In the terminal, type: gedit space blockMeshDict( Note that M and D are capital) and press Enter. |
| 01:45 | Let me drag this to the capture area. |
| 01:49 | Now minimize this. |
| 01:53 | Let me switch back to the slide. |
| 01:55 | In openfoam, the entire geometry is broken into blocks . |
| 01:59 | The blocks are numbered starting from 0 (zero) as shown in the figure. |
| 02:08 | Note that in OpenFOAM, for creating a 2D geometry you need to give an unit cell thickness value in the z-axis. |
| 02:19 | lid driven cavity is of length 1 and height 1. Minimize the slide. |
| 02:29 | On your desktop, create an empty file by right click > create document > Empty file. Name this as 'blockMeshDict'. (Note that M and D here are capital). |
| 02:48 | Open this. Now, copy the data from the original lid driven cavity 'blockMeshDict' file to the new 'blockMeshDict' file from line 0. |
| 02:59 | Scroll up line 0 upto 'convertTometers'. Copy this and paste it here. |
| 03:15 | Scroll down. Now leave some space after 'converttometers'. |
| 03:21 | Enter 1 as the geometry is in meters. Insert a semicolon and press Enter. |
| 03:30 | Again press Enter. In the file, type "vertices" and press Enter. |
| 03:39 | Insert the open bracket and press Enter. |
| 03:43 | Press the tab key. Start with point 0, insert open, close brackets, Enter. |
| 03:52 | 0 space 0 space 0 and press Enter. Again, press tab key, open close bracket . |
| 04:02 | Move towards point 1 in positive x-axis and enter 1 space 0 space 0 and press Enter. |
| 04:12 | Again press the tab key, open close bracket. Move towards point 2 in the positive x-y plane and enter 1 space 1 space 0 and press Enter. |
| 04:26 | Again press tab key, open close bracket. Enter the 3rd point in positive y-axis 0 space 1 space 0 , press Enter. |
| 04:39 | Again press the tab key. Enter the 4th point on the front face, open close bracket, 0 space 0 space 0.1 and press Enter. |
| 04:51 | Similarly, enter the other points with one unit value in the positive z- axis. |
| 04:56 | close the bracket and insert a semicolon after it. Press Enter, again press Enter. |
| 05:03 | Below vertices are the blocks. Type blocks and press Enter. Insert a open bracket and press Enter. |
| 05:16 | Let me switch back to the slides. |
| 05:19 | Note that Lid driven cavity is taken as a single block. |
| 05:24 | Let me switch back to 'blockmeshdict'. |
| 05:27 | Enter the points for the block in the clockwise sense. |
| 05:31 | We are using here hexa hedral blocks for meshing. |
| 05:34 | Now, type "hex". Leave some space. In brackets, enter 0 space 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 , again leave some space. |
| 05:53 | Note that for multiple blocks, the points will be more. |
| 05:58 | After this, enter the grid points in the x, y and z directions. |
| 06:02 | In brackets, open close brackets, enter 30 space 30 space 1. Leave some space, you can modify the grid as and when needed. |
| 06:16 | Grid point in the z-axis can be taken as one. |
| 06:22 | Now, leave some space and type "simple Grading". Leave some space, open close bracket, enter 1 space 1 space 1 . |
| 06:36 | This is the grid spacing in the x, y and z directions. Press Enter. |
| 06:43 | Insert close bracket, insert a semicolon and press Enter. |
| 06:48 | Again press Enter. Now type "edges" and press Enter. |
| 06:55 | As this is a simple geometry, edges can be kept empty. |
| 07:00 | Insert open bracket, press Enter, close the bracket. Insert a semicolon and press Enter. |
| 07:07 | Again press Enter. Below edges are the boundary conditions. |
| 07:11 | Here you need to enter the boundary names for the faces. |
| 07:15 | Type "boundary" and press Enter . |
| 07:19 | Insert an open bracket and press Enter. |
| 07:23 | Now, let me switch back to the slides. |
| 07:26 | In the geometry, the upper wall is moving and other three walls are fixed. |
| 07:31 | The front and back faces are named as 'empty' as this is a 2D problem. |
| 07:39 | Open the new 'blockMeshDict' file again. |
| 07:42 | In boundary, put the name of the patch as 'moving wall' . Press Enter. |
| 07:51 | Now, insert a open curly bracket and press Enter. |
| 07:56 | Now enter the type for the moving wall , enter type space wall. |
| 08:06 | Insert a semicolon and press Enter. |
| 08:09 | Now insert open bracket and press Enter. Press the tab key, open close bracket. |
| 08:20 | In this bracket, enter the point for faces. |
| 08:24 | Let me switch to the slide. |
| 08:27 | Note that order of the points should be in such a way that the thumb should be normal to the face . |
| 08:34 | And fingers making a curl as shown in the figure. |
| 08:39 | The curl can be clockwise or anti-clockwise. |
| 08:43 | Also, note that the points should match with the points inserted in vertices. |
| 08:48 | Now, let me switch back to the new 'blockmeshdict' file. |
| 08:52 | Now in the faces, enter 3 space 7 space 6 space 2. |
| 09:01 | Let me switch back to the slide. These are the points for the moving wall 3, 7, 6, 2. |
| 09:09 | Minimize this. Note that you can start from any point on that face. Now press Enter. |
| 09:17 | Close the bracket again, press Enter. Close the curly bracket. |
| 09:22 | Another note, we need to enter a semi colon. After you insert the points, a faces Now after the curly brackets, press Enter, again press Enter. |
| 09:35 | Now, similarly enter boundary condition and faces for the fixed wall . |
| 09:40 | Being a 2D problem the type of boundary for front and back faces can be kept as empty. |
| 09:46 | Refer to the figure in the slide. For entering the points, minimize this. |
| 09:52 | Insert the closed brackets, put a semicolon and press Enter, again press Enter. |
| 09:59 | Now type "mergePatchPairs" and press Enter. |
| 10:04 | Since there are no patches to merge, it can be kept empty. |
| 10:08 | Insert open close bracket. Insert a semicolon and press Enter. |
| 10:14 | We are done with creating the 'blockmeshdict' file. Save this. |
| 10:18 | The complete 'blockMeshDict' file is as shown here. |
| 10:26 | Close both the 'blockMeshDict' files. |
| 10:29 | Note that the command terminal will not work until blockMeshDict file is closed. |
| 10:35 | Switch back to the terminal. Now, type cd (dot) (dot) twice to return back to the 'cavity' folder. Now Mesh the geometry. |
| 10:45 | To do this, on the terminal, type: "blockMesh" and press Enter. |
| 10:53 | Now, view the geometry by typing in the command terminal paraFoam and press Enter. |
| 10:59 | This will open the ParaView window. |
| 11:03 | Now, on the left hand side, click Apply on object inspector menu. Thus, you can see the geometry. |
| 11:13 | Now let me switch back to the slides. |
| 11:16 | In this tutorial, we learnt: |
| 11:18 | * Creating a simple geometry in OpenFOAM |
| 11:22 | * Viewing the geometry in Paraview . |
| 11:25 | This brings us to the end of the tutorial. |
| 11:29 | As an Assignment- |
| 11:31 | Change the direction of lid driven cavity, change the grid size to 50 50 1and view the geometry in paraview. |
| 11:41 | Watch the video available at this URL: [1] |
| 11:44 | It summarizes the Spoken Tutorial project. |
| 11:46 | If you do not have good bandwidth, you can download and watch it. |
| 11:51 | The Spoken Tutorial project team: |
| 11:53 | * Conducts workshops using spoken tutorials |
| 11:55 | * Gives certificates to those who pass an online test. |
| 11:59 | For more details, please write to:
contact@spoken-tutorial.org |
| 12:05 | Spoken Tutorial project is part of Talk to a Teacher project. |
| 12:09 | It is supported by the National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, Government of India. |
| 12:15 | More information on the same is available at the following URL link: |
| 12:19 | This is Rahul Joshi from IIT Bombay, signing off. Thanks for joining. |
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