tabulatedThermophysicalProperties

Tabulated thermophysical properties for OpenFOAM 5.x.

REQUIREMENTS

OpenFOAM 5.x

• https://openfoam.org/

Python 3

• https://www.python.org/downloads/
• Tested with version 3.5.3 and higher. May work with other python 3 versions.

INSTALLATION

• Copy the source files in your user OpenFOAM tree (often /home/user/OpenFOAM/user-5.x/)
• Compile all sources:
  • Use wmake libso in each directory where a Make folder is present
  • Use wmakeLnInclude -update . in src/OpenFOAM directory

USAGE

python script

• Only table transposition works.
• Importation from CSV file is planned but not implemented.
• To transpose a table:
  • Copy the table in your python script repository.
  • Open thermophysicalTable.py file.
  • Change the values in thermo.read("your_file") and thermo.write("your_file").
  • Use python3 thermophysicalTable.py

Tabulated thermophysical model

• Compile your solver with:

  • libTabularThermophysicalModels
  • libuserspecie
  • libtabularReactionThermophysicalModels (for multi-species simulation)

• In your constant/thermophysicalProperties file:

  • Change transport, thermo, and equationOfState to the desired values.
  • Use hePsiThermo, heRhoThermo or heTabularThermo for type value.
  • Create subdictionaries for each property using tabulated data.
    • Add fileName value.
    • Add outOfBounds value:
      • ERROR which exits with a Fatal Error
      • WARN which issues warning and extrapolates value (default)
      • EXTRAPOLATE which extrapolates value Be careful when using WARN and log file, log may be very huge.

• If your thermophysical model is not defined:

  • Add it in tabularThermos.C (for single specie)
  • Add it in tabularReactionThermos.C and makeTabularChemistryReaders.C (for multi-species)

MISCELLANEOUS

• Multi-species works but it is very slow for large tables due to OpenFOAM code design.
• Only 1 non reactive model of multi-species is currently implemented.

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

See license file.