OpenFOAM/C2/Installing-Running/English
Tutorial; Installing and Running OpenFOAM
Script and Narration : Rahul Joshi
Keywords: Video tutorial,CFD.
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Slide 1:
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Hello and welcome to the spoken tutorial on Installing and running OpenFOAM and paraView.
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Slide 2: Learning Objectives | In this tutorial I will show you
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Slide 3:
System Requirement |
To record this tutorial
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Slide 4
Prerequisites |
To practice this tutorial you should have some basic knowledge of
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Slide 5
About OpenFOAM
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Let me introduce you to OpenFOAM
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Slide 6:
About paraView |
Now let me introduce you to Paraview:
It is used for visualizing results obtained in OpenFOAM.
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Slide 7: | OpenFOAM and paraView can also be installed through Synaptic package manager |
Demo:
Synaptic Package Manager |
For Synaptic Package Manager go to System > Administration > Synaptic Package Manager
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Slide 7 | For more details on Synaptic Package Manager
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Demo and slide 8:
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Alternately you can also install OpenFOAM and paraView from openfoam website on this url: http://www.openfoam.com/download
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Demo | From the first point of installation copy the command line and paste it in the terminal window.
or go to Application > Accessories > Terminal
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Demo:
Configure the software and test its working |
Now we need to configure the installed software
This opens up the bash file,
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Demo:
Set up working Directory
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Now let me show you how to set up a working directory.
By typing in the terminal 'cp (space) -r (space) $FOAM_TUTORIALS (space) $FOAM_RUN ' (Press Enter)
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From source code | If some errors occurs during downloading OpenFOAM and Paraview
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Slide 9 :
Diagram |
Let us see how to Solve a problem in OpenFOAM with an example
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Display Slide 10 : | The type of Solver I am using here is for incompressible flow
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Demo:
Running the first example in openfoam |
Now Open a new command terminal again
cd (space) incompressible (Press Enter) cd (space) icoFoam (Note that F here is capital) (Press Enter) cd (space) cavity (Press Enter)
(Press Enter)
(Note here that F is capital) and Press Enter. |
Demo:
Using paraView |
The iterations running can be seen in the terminal window.
(Note that 'F' is capital here) and press Enter
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Slide 11:
Summary
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In this tutorial we learnt how to install
OpenFOAM and Paraview through Synaptic Package Manager and the website solved a lid driven cavity.
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Slide 12:
Assignment |
As as Assignment,
install OpenFOAM and Paraview This brings us to the end of the tutorial |
Slide 13 & 14 about Spoken tutorials | Watch the video available at this URL:
http://spoken-tutorial.org/What_is_a_Spoken_Tutorial It summarizes the Spoken Tutorial project. If you do not have good bandwidth, you can download and watch it.
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Slide 15
Acknowledgement
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Spoken Tutorials are part of Talk to a Teacher project,
It is supported by the National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, Government of India. More information on the same is available at the following URL link http://spoken-tutorial.org/NMEICT-Intro |
About the contributor | This is Rahul Joshi from IIT BOMBAY signing off.
Thanks for joining. |