Week 3 Update

Week 3 saw the team make great progress in developing their OpenFOAM skills. The team successfully ran a conjugate heat transfer multi-region analysis using a tutorial template and simplifying the geometry to a simple two block design (as shown below). The aim is to further develop this simulation with a fluid contained within two solid blocks.

Figure 1 - chtMultiRegion OpenFOAM Simulation - Mesh

Figure 2 - chtMultiRegion OpenFOAM Simulation - Velocity

Development of the CFMesh section was encouraging as the tolerance values for the stl. file inputs were fixed. The aim for next week is to have a working mesh of an stl. file by the end of the week. The team discussed whether to transition to snappyHexMesh as the meshing tool but this will discussed further with Seb at our weekly advisor meeting.

Attempts were made to download OpenCascade via Anaconda on the university computers to hopefully bypass administrative issues, however, this was not possible. We need to wait on the administrator to come back from holiday before being able to use OpenCascade. The team will use Solidworks as the modelling tool for the time being.

Next Steps:

1. Complete developed chtMultiRegion OpenFOAM simulation with fluids between two blocks.

2. Research how to parameterise model.

3. Clear up all technical issues.