OpenFOAM: Future

Developments
Hrvoje Jasak
h.jasak@wikki.co.uk

Wikki Ltd, United Kingdom

FSB, University of Zagreb, Croatia
18/Nov/2005

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Outline
Objective
• Present (my) development plans
• Dissemination, training and workshops
Topics
• Library infrastructure
• Solvers and utilities
• Collaboration and pilot projects
• Future Workshops and Seminars

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Background
OpenFOAM Today
• Number of academic users rising rapidly
• Some industry penetration: pilot projects
Requirements for the Next Phase
• Expanded knowledge base and support
• Formal and wider testing, validation database
and release management
• Need public CVS repository

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Library Development
Supporting Complex Coupling
• Block Matrix and Solver
• Rewrite of FEM discretisation
• Block-implicit FVM operators
• Direct solver technology
• Solid-fluid interaction and general multi-mesh
and multi-model framework

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Library Development
Support for Topological Changes
• Complete deployment of mesh morphing
• Automatic support in top-level solvers
• OpenFOAM in engine simulations
• Generalisation of polyMesh support: point
and edge zones; sub-meshes?
• Topological changes in parallel and dynamic
load balancing

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Block Matrix
Block Matrix Class Rewrite
• Old code: scalar matrix and segregation only
• Need support for point-implicit and block
vector solution: tensor coefficients
• Introducing coupled variable support for block
solution on GeometricField level
• Automatic coefficient morphing for efficiency
• Generalised sparse addressing support: op+
• First implementation complete: under testing
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Block Matrix

UP

aP
X
aN UN
aP uP + aP uN = R
N

• Coupling vector components in the same cell:

tensor diagonal (aP ) coefficient
• Coupling vector components in neighbour:
tensor off-diagonal (aN ) coefficient
• Dynamic type change on matrix summation
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Block Matrix
Block Matrix Class Rewrite
• BlockCoeff: scalar, Type or Type-squared
• CoeffField: List of BlockCoeff
◦ Type morphing to highest required type
◦ Automatic calculus operations
• BlockLduMatrix and BlockConstraint
◦ BlockCoeff diagonal and off-diagonal
◦ Sparse addressing: static and dynamic
• Discretisation support with new matrix types
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Solver Development
Solver Development
• Surface tracking solver ready for release
• Updates in automatic mesh motion
• Improvements in moving mesh and
topological changes: run-time selection
• 2-D CFD solver on a curved surface: wall film
• Rewrite of FV stress analysis capabilities:
multi-material, improved contact handling

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Surface Tracking
Surface Tracking Model
• Separate mesh for each phase
• Motion obtained from boundary conditions
• Mesh adjusted for the motion of free surface
Example: Hydrofoil Under Free Surface

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Finite Area Solver
Transient Convection-Diffusion on a Sphere
• vt = v4∞ sin θ eθ
• ψ = 1 at t = 0
5
Analytical, t=0.4s
Analytical, t=1.0s
4.5 EI, t=0.4s
EI, t=1.0s
CN, t=0.4s
4 CN, t=1.0s

3.5

phi
2.5

2
Z Y
1.5

X 1

0.5

0
0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180
theta

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FV Stress Analysis
Contact Stress Analysis
• Multi-material and non-linear materials:
governing equation given per region
• Multiple contact and self-contact

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Dissemination
Pilot Projects
• US Dept. of Energy: MFIX replacement
• Funded development: industrial collaboration
Workshop and Training Seminars
• OpenFOAM Workshop in USA and Japan
• Follow-up (annual?) European event
• OpenFOAM in teaching: virtual flow lab
• University collaboration/EU project?

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USM Chile: Air Injection

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Summary
OpenFOAM Development
• Entering a new phase: increased user base
• Need to expand developer base and
expertise: encourage collaboration
• Promote Open-Source CFD approach in
industry and academia
Thank you for attending the
First OpenFOAM Workshop!

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