dispersionEvaluationFoam

General Informations

• dispersionEvaluationFoam is an OpenFOAM package to compute the dispersion tensor of a porous sample

• The method relies on the volume averaging approach and the closure problems derived by Carbonell and Whitaker (1983)

• The package contains:

1. The core solver
2. The associated boundary condition
3. a tutorial

History

First development in 2014 by C.S. First release on May 25,2021.

Installation instructions :

• This toolbox has been tested on OpenFOAM v7 only

• It only needs a standard OpenFOAM installation from www.openfoam.org

• Read the COPYING_OPENFOAM file for information about OpenFOAM and this toolbox Copyrights.

• First, source the OpenFOAM configuration file, i.e. (example for ubuntu version) :

  source /opt/openfoamv7/etc/bashrc
  

• then in the "dispersionEvaluationFoam" directory, run :

  wmake
  

  to install the package.

• see the ReleaseNotes.txt file for detailed information about the toolbox.