engineFoam

Table of Contents

• Overview
• Equations
• Input requirements
  • Physical models
  • Solution controls
• Further information

Overview

• Category: Combustion
• transient
• compressible
• Turbulence
• Finite volume options
• heat transfer
• chemistry
• combustion
• moving mesh
• time defined in crank-angle (CA) degrees

Equations

• PIMPLE algorithm

Input requirements

Mandatory fields:

• p: pressure [Pa]
• U: velocity [m/s]
• T: temperature [K]

Physical models

• turbulence: constant/turbulenceProperties
• heat transfer: constant/thermophysicalModels
• chemistry: constant/chemistryProperties
• combustion: constant/combustionProperties
• finite volume options : constant/fvOptions (optional)

Solution controls

• Schemes
• Linear equation solvers
• controlDict

Further information

Source code

• $FOAM_APP/solvers/combustion/engineFoam

See also

• coldEngineFoam
• XiFoam

Tutorials

• $FOAM_TUTORIALS/combustion/engineFoam

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