Hallo Christoph,
I was wondering, in order to generate a complex CFD geometry such as ship cull, propeller, is it possible to use unstructured instead of structured mesh in OpenFOAM while coulping with LIGGGHTS?
Thanks in advance.
David Long
A project by DCS Computing and CFDEMresearch
Hallo Christoph,
I was wondering, in order to generate a complex CFD geometry such as ship cull, propeller, is it possible to use unstructured instead of structured mesh in OpenFOAM while coulping with LIGGGHTS?
Thanks in advance.
David Long
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alice | Tue, 08/14/2012 - 18:31
Hello David, yes, it is
Hello David,
yes, it is possible to use arbitrary geometries. For the CFD calculation you only have to convert the given mesh to an OpenFoam mesh. On the DEM side you have to load stl files and load them as granular wall.
Cheers,
Alice
keepfit | Thu, 08/16/2012 - 15:09
hi Alice, thanks very much
hi Alice,
thanks very much for your reply. If i understood correctly
1) DEM (LIGGGHTS) and OpenFOAM share with the same complex mesh, including boundaries and object geometry
2) but for a simple fluid domain, e.g. a cube or a combination of primitives which is easy defined in both OpenFOAM and DEM. In this case, should we just define the boundaries condition, i.e. walls in LIGGGHTS?
regards,
Daivd
alice | Thu, 08/16/2012 - 16:43
Hi David, basically you
Hi David,
basically you define the domains for DEM and CFD seperately. As you pointed out, for simple cases (cubes, etc...) you can set up the geometry in LIGGGHTS directly (primitives, xwall, ...) and create a CFD-mesh with blockMesh.
For more complex cases I usually generate a 3D mesh for the CFD computation and convert it to an stl-file (surfaceMeshTriangulate can do that, have a look at its descripton...) which can be used as wall in the LIGGGHTS-in-file.
Cheers,
Alice
Arghavani | Wed, 11/27/2019 - 13:53
cfdemSolverIB for unstructured mesh
Hi every one ,
I would like to know is it possible to do cfdemSolverIB for unstructured mesh namely using semi cylinder(STL file , using snappyHexMesh ) inside a background domain ?
kind regards,
Arghavan