OpenFOAM/C2/Simulating-flow-in-a-Lid-Driven-Cavity/English-timed
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00:01 | Hello and welcome to the spoken tutorial on Simulating Flow in a Lid Driven Cavity using openFoam. |
00:07 | In this tutorial, I will show you: |
00:09 | The Lid Driven Cavity file structure |
00:12 | Meshing the Geometry |
00:14 | Solving and post-processing results in Paraview |
00:17 | Plotting & validating results on a spreadsheet. |
00:21 | To record this tutorial, I am using: Linux Operating system Ubuntu version 10.04 |
00:27 | OpenFOAM version 2.1.0 and ParaView version 3.12.0. |
00:32 | The tutorials were recorded using the versions specified in previous slide. Subsequently the tutorials were edited to latest versions. To install latest system requirements go to Installation Sheet. |
00:37 | Lid driven cavity is the most widely used 2D test |
00:41 | case for validation of a CFD code. |
00:44 | This is the diagram of Lid Driven Cavity, |
00:46 | the boundary conditions remain the same. |
00:49 | A moving wall and three fixedwalls. |
00:51 | We are solving this for Reynolds no (Re) = 100. |
00:56 | The moving wall has a velocity of 1 meter per second. |
01:01 | The path for the Lid Driven Cavity is the same as discussed in the installation tutorial. |
01:05 | Now, open a command terminal. |
01:07 | To do this, press Ctrl+Alt+t keys simultaneously on your keyboard. |
01:13 | In the command terminal |
01:17 | and type "run" and press Enter. |
01:20 | cd (space) tutorials and press Enter. |
01:25 | cd (space) incompressible and press Enter. |
01:31 | cd (space) icoFoam (Note that F here is capital) and press Enter. |
01:38 | cd (space) cavity and press Enter. |
01:43 | Now, type "ls" and press Enter. |
01:46 | In the file structure of cavity, you will see 3 folders : 0 , constant , and system. |
01:51 | Now, type cd (space) constant and press Enter. |
01:57 | Now type "ls" and press Enter. |
02:00 | The constant folder contains another folder named polyMesh and a file describing the physical properties of fluid. |
02:06 | Now, type cd (space) polymesh and Press Enter. |
02:13 | PolyMesh contains a file named 'blockMeshDict'. |
02:17 | Now type "ls" and press Enter. |
02:20 | You can see the blockMeshDict |
02:22 | To open up the blockMeshDict file, type gedit space blockMeshDict.
(Note that M and D here are capital).Now press Enter. |
02:35 | This will Open up the blockMeshDict file. |
02:37 | Let me drag this to the capture area. |
02:41 | This contains: coordinates for the lid driven cavity, |
02:46 | blocking and meshing parameters |
02:49 | and boundary patches. |
02:52 | Since there are no arcs as well as no patches to be merged, edges and mergePatchPairs can be kept empty. |
03:01 | Now close this. |
03:03 | In the command terminal, type : cd (space) .. (dot) (dot) and press Enter. |
03:09 | Do this twice. You will come back to the cavity folder. |
03:14 | Now, type cd (space) system and press Enter. |
03:20 | Now type "ls", press Enter. This contains three files- |
03:27 | controlDict, fvSchemes and fvSolutions. |
03:31 | controlDict contains control parameters for start/end time. |
03:35 | fvSolution contains discritization schemes used in run time. |
03:40 | And, fvSchemes contains equation for solvers, tolerance etc. |
03:45 | Now, again type cd (space) (dot dot) .. and press Enter. |
03:51 | Now type cd ( space ) 0 (zero) and Press Enter. |
03:58 | Now type "ls" and press Enter. |
04:02 | This contains the initial values for boundary conditions like Pressure, Velocity, Temperature etc. |
04:08 | Now type cd ( space ) (dot dot) . . to return back to the cavity folder. |
04:14 | Now we need to mesh the geometry. |
04:16 | We are using a coarse mesh here. |
04:19 | Mesh the geometry by typing blockMesh in the terminal. |
04:23 | Now type blockMesh (Note that M here is capital) and press Enter. |
04:30 | The Meshing is done. |
04:32 | If there are some errors in the blockMesh file, it will be shown in the terminal. |
04:36 | To view the geometry,type paraFoam. Note that 'F' here is capital and press Enter. |
04:45 | This will open the paraview window. |
04:49 | Now on the left hand side of the object inspector menu, click on Apply. |
04:54 | You can see the lid driven cavity geometry. Now close this. |
05:03 | Check the mesh by typing "checkMesh" in the terminal. |
05:09 | Note that 'M' here is capital and press Enter. |
05:13 | you can see the number of cells, skewness and other parameters which are associated with the mesh. |
05:20 | Let me switch back to the slides. |
05:22 | The solver we are using here is icoFoam: |
05:25 | icoFoam is a Transient solver for incompressible flow of newtonian fluids. |
05:31 | Let me switch back to the terminal. |
05:34 | In the terminal, type "icoFoam". |
05:38 | Note that 'F' here is capital and press Enter. |
05:42 | The Iterations running will be seen in the terminal window. |
05:45 | After the solving is done, type paraFoam in the terminal to view the geometry and the results. |
05:59 | On the left hand side of object inspector menu |
06:02 | click on Apply.Now Scroll down the properties on object inspector menu. |
06:07 | you can see mesh parts, Volume Fields etc. |
06:12 | Check or uncheck these boxes in the mesh part, to view the different boundary regions of Lid driven cavity. |
06:20 | Now, after this, on top of the left-hand side on active variable control drop-down menu, change this from solid color to p or capital U which are the initial conditions such as pressure, velocity. |
06:36 | I will select capital 'U'. Now this will show you the initial condition of velocity. |
06:42 | On top of the paraview window, you will see the VCR control. |
06:49 | Click on the play button. |
06:52 | Now this is the final result of velocity for the lid driven cavity. |
06:57 | Toggle on the color legend by clicking on the top left of the active variable control menu. |
07:08 | This is the color legend for U velocity. |
07:12 | We need to validate the results obtained. |
07:14 | To do this, let us plot the U and V velocity. |
07:17 | To do this, go to Filters scroll down > Data Analysis > Plot Over line. |
07:26 | Click on it. |
07:30 | You can see X , Y and Z axes. |
07:33 | Select the X & Y axis turn by turn. |
07:39 | I will select the X axis and click Apply. |
07:45 | You can see Pressure and velocity plots being plotted. |
07:50 | Since it is a non dimensional analysis, we need to plot the graph for u/U v/s y/L for Reynolds number =100 |
08:00 | To do this, in Plot Data click on the Y-axis |
08:06 | and click APPLY. |
08:09 | You can see the plot. |
08:11 | Now in menu bar, go to File > Save Data. |
08:15 | Give appropriate name to your file. |
08:19 | I will give this as "cavity". |
08:23 | The file will be saved as ".csv" (dot csv) file. |
08:27 | Now click OK. Again click OK. |
08:31 | Now go to the cavity folder of openfoam directory. |
08:37 | Scroll down. you can see the cavity.csv file. |
08:42 | Open it in Open office or LibreOffice Spreadsheet. |
08:47 | In the LibreOffice spreadsheet, copy the U0 (u velocity) and to the right points 1(Y-axis) columns in another spreadsheet. |
08:56 | Now, divide both these columns, that is, u zero by capital U and points 1 by capital L |
09:07 | and plot the results in libreoffice charts option on top, in the menu bar. |
09:16 | Now let me switch back to the slides. |
09:18 | Results obtained will be similar to this figure. |
09:24 | Validate the results on a paper published on Lid Driven Cavity by : Ghia et al. (1982) and Results obtained from Fluent. |
09:34 | In this tutorial, we learnt: |
09:36 | File structure of Lid Driven cavity |
09:38 | Solved lid driven cavity. |
09:40 | Post-processing of solutions |
09:42 | And Validation. |
09:44 | As an assignment, Change some parameters in the lid driven cavity. |
09:48 | Velocity Magnitude in the 0 folder. |
09:51 | Kinematic viscosity in transport Properties in constant folder. |
09:55 | And, plot results of u/U and y/L. |
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10:55 | Thanks for joining. |
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