!!!!! THE VALUE USED FOR KINEMATIC VISCOSITY IN THE SIMULATION THAT IS DESCRIBED IN THIS POST WAS INCORRECT. THE DARCY-FORCHHEIMER COEFFICIENTS, HOWEVER, DO SEEM TO BE CORRECT. FOR AN UPDATED ON THE RESULTS IS AVAILABLE !!!!! In 2003, Lope G. Tabil and three co-authors decided that they would make my 2021 life much much easier…
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Just a quick reminder 1st attempt: flow over a structure the shape of a clamp 2nd attempt: flow through a porous clamp This attempt: flow through a porous clamp with a less porous cover added The cover is 5cm normal to the surface. At a ca. 34 degree angle of repose, this makes the cover…
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After getting familiar with OpenFOAM by building a model of airflow around a clamp, it was time to start looking in the clamp. To be honest, I’ve been waiting 2.5 years for this moment, so I was pretty keen to get a model that worked, regardless of whether it has the right parameters or not.…
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The love-hate relationship builds. The things I’m loving about OpenFOAM so far include: the price, the way it makes you understand what everything (every step, every parameter, every decision) is and means – the learning is much deeper, the way it make you understand that you’re asking the computer to do a lot of computations!…
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