laplacianFoam - OpenFOAM Solver

Solver: laplacianFoam   Description

laplacianFoam is a basic solver that simulates diffusion-driven scalar transport in both transient and steady-state forms. Primarily used for heat conduction, it efficiently incorporates volumetric heat sources in its computations.

While adept at managing homogeneous fluid properties and thermal diffusion equations, the solver does not extend to non-homogeneous fluid properties, turbulence, multiphase flows, or reactive flows. Its core application lies in modeling heat conduction in solids, guided by the Laplace and heat diffusion equations.

Solver: laplacianFoam   Features

  • Steady-State and Transient
  • Laplace Equation Solver for a Scalar Quantity
  • Heat Transfer
  • Thermal Diffusion Model only
  • Homogenous Material Model
  • Constant Diffusion Coefficient

Solver: laplacianFoam   Application

Heat Conduction

  • Heat Conduction in Solids
    e.g. flanges, bodies in contact with hot surfaces

Solver: laplacianFoam   Heat Transfer Solvers

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

Heat Transfer, Single Fluid - Boussinesq

Heat Transfer, Single Solid

CHT, Multiple Fluids / Solids

  • CHT - Conjugate Heat Transfer
  • MRF - Multiple Reference Frame
  • Overset - also known as Chimera Grid (Method)

Solver: laplacianFoam   Results Fields

This solver provides the following results fields:

  • Primary Results Fields - quantities produced by the solver as default outputs

Primary Results Fields

Temperature

\(T\) [\(K\)]

  • *Primary Results Fields are metrics produced by the solver as default outputs.