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An OpenFOAM® Turbulent Flow Application

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The OpenFOAM® solvers and boundary conditions developed in previous chapters are used here to solve a small scale turbulent incompressible flow problem. Details on the case structure, mesh, and solver setup are presented along with information on monitoring convergence and post processing results.

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  1. Mechanical Engineering, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

    F. Moukalled

  2. Engineering and Architecture, Lucerne University of Applied Science and Arts, Horw, Switzerland

    L. Mangani

  3. Department of Mechanical Engineering, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

    M. Darwish

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Moukalled, F., Mangani, L., Darwish, M. (2016). An OpenFOAM® Turbulent Flow Application. In: The Finite Volume Method in Computational Fluid Dynamics. Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications, vol 113. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16874-6_19

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