Solver: Comparison Heat Transfer Solvers Comparison
Heat Transfer Solvers In this group, we have included solvers that are designed to model: Heat Transfer, Radiation, Natural and Forced Convection, Conjugate Heat Transfer (CHT).
Heat Transfer, Single Fluid
- buoyantSimpleFoam steady-state, compressible, buoyancy-driven flow
- buoyantPimpleFoam transient, compressible, buoyancy-driven flow
Heat Transfer, Single Fluid - Boussinesq
- buoyantBoussinesqSimpleFoam steady-state, incompressible, buoyancy using Boussinesq approximation
- buoyantBoussinesqPimpleFoam transient, incompressible, buoyancy using Boussinesq approximation
Heat Transfer, Single Solid
- laplacianFoam steady-state and transient, thermal conduction in solid
- overLaplacianDyMFoam extension of laplacianFoam with Overset
CHT, Multiple Fluids / Solids
- chtMultiRegionSimpleFoam steady-state, compressible, arbitrary fluid and solid regions
- chtMultiRegionFoam transient, compressible, arbitrary fluid and solid regions
- CHT - Conjugate Heat Transfer
- MRF - Multiple Reference Frame
- Overset - also known as Chimera Grid (Method)
- 1. These solvers are capable of handling buoyancy-driven flows by incorporating gravity effects, which are not present in the Compressible solvers group (described in section above).
- 2. CHT solvers allow for the modeling of heat transfer between different fluids and solids (multiple mesh regions).
- 3. In this group, both compressible and incompressible (pressure-based) solvers are available which support:
- Different fluid models:
- using various equations of state, such as perfect gas or constant density for compressible solvers
- Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluid models for incompressible solvers
- RANS/LES turbulence models
- Porosity models
- MRF (excluding CHT solvers)
- Passive scalar
- Custom source term
- Different fluid models: