Posting this after a long break......
Simulation of a steady flow in a 3D pipe bend using Salome and OpenFOAM. Energy equation was added to the OpenFOAM solver Salome and a new solver named "simTempFoam" was developed. The geometry is a pipe with a diameter of 0.3 m and having a total length of 100 m and velocity of 1 m/s.
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| Pipe : Inlet, Outlet and wall boundary |
The above figure Shows the geometry created in Salome v 7.2.0. The meshing was carried out in Salome itself and hexahedral mesh was used for the meshing.
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| Hexahedral mesh was generated using Salome with a total cell count of 60000 |
OpenFOAM was used for solving the flow through the bend. A steady state solver named "simTempFoam" was developed for with addition of energy equation. The solution converged in 300 iterations resulting in the following pressure, velocity and temperature contour plot.
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Pressure contour
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| Velocity contour |
