Name: OpenFOAM Fundamentals & Hands on Training
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The participant will learn OpenFOAM basics and will get trained to set up and solve problems using OpenFOAM

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Course details

OpenFOAM is a freely available open-source CFD software and is being widely used in academia and industry. The software has huge potential with many solvers and utilities for pre- and post-processing. On the downside, OpenFOAM has limited documentation and hence with proper training and practice it is possible to leverage its full potential leading to cost-effective, robust and reliable simulation. In this session the participant will be given full exposure to basics of CFD (Meshing, material properties, models, discretization schemes, solver settings, boundary conditions, solution convergence, post-processing…) and how these are implemented in OpenFOAM. Thereafter, hands on training will be provided on a simple CHT case involving solver set-up and post-processing

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Key topics covered

CFD and OpenFOAM basics

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CHT Simulation Set up

Visualization in ParaView

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OpenFOAM

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Questions and Answers

Q: You're sanity-checking an OpenFOAM tutorial case and google "estimate y+ first cell height OpenFOAM wall function". Air at 25°C flows over a flat plate at 20 m/s, characteristic length 0.5 m. You want y+ ≈ 30 for standard wall functions. What’s the defensible order-of-magnitude for the first cell height?

A: Governing principle: y+ = uτ y / ν, with uτ from Cf ~ 0.003 at this Reynolds number. Applied here, uτ lands around 0.8 m/s, giving y ≈ 5e-4 m for y+ ≈ 30. The 50 µm choice traps people who remember the formula but quietly switch to laminar thinking.

Q: A steady-state OpenFOAM case diverges after 200 iterations. Residuals flatten, then blow up. You search "OpenFOAM SIMPLE solver diverges after few hundred iterations". Velocity field shows checkerboarding pressure. What's the root cause that explains all symptoms?

A: Governing principle: pressure–velocity coupling must suppress odd–even decoupling on collocated meshes. In this case the checkerboard pattern and delayed divergence line up with missing or incorrect Rhie–Chow treatment. High Co would hurt earlier; low relaxation slows convergence but doesn’t create checkerboarding.

Q: You're setting up a conjugate heat transfer tutorial and google "OpenFOAM CHT solver buoyancy natural convection". Air flows at low speed around a heated aluminum block, ΔT ≈ 80 K, buoyancy dominant. Which solver choice best fits commissioning today?

A: Governing principle: solver physics should match driving forces without extra model debt. Here buoyancy and steady operation point straight to buoyantSimpleFoam in a CHT framework. Fully compressible and transient solvers work elsewhere but add failure paths you don’t need under time pressure.

Q: As-built documentation is thin. You only have a P&ID-style sketch of regions and boundary patches. You google "OpenFOAM boundary condition type from P&ID heat exchanger". One wall is marked as "adiabatic" but temperature still drifts. What inconsistency should you look for first?

A: Governing principle: adiabatic means no heat flux, but conduction still needs k defined. If the solid region lacks thermal conductivity, energy balance collapses and temperatures wander. Boundary syntax errors show earlier; pressure outlets don’t drive wall temperature drift.