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Physical properties setup

  • The physical properties of the fluid flow are located in directory constant
  • Let us look in it:# ls $FOAM_RUN /cavity/constant
    polyMesh  transportProperties
    

  • Inside this directory we can find a computational mesh and one configuration file transportProperties
  • Usually, there are more configuration files presented, depending on the test case, solver and models used
  • Let us print the file transportProperties content to the standard output:# cat $FOAM_RUN /cavity/constant/transportProperties
    /*--------------------------------*- C++ -*----------------------------------*\
    | =========                 |                                                 |
    | \\      /  F ield         | OpenFOAM: The Open Source CFD Toolbox           |
    |  \\    /   O peration     | Version:  dev                                   |
    |   \\  /    A nd           | Web:      www.OpenFOAM.com                      |
    |    \\/     M anipulation  |                                                 |
    \*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
    FoamFile
    {
        version     2.0;
        format      ascii;
        class       dictionary;
        location    "constant";
        object      transportProperties;
    }
    // * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * //
    
    nu              nu [ 0 2 -1 0 0 0 0 ] 0.01;
    
    
    // ************************************************************************* //
    
  • This configuration file transportProperties has only one parameter – kinematic viscosity nu = 0.01 img95 2
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