Simple heat exchanger
This tutorial describes how to use enGrid in order to create a mesh with regions which is suitable to simulate conjugate heat transfer with OPENFOAM®'s chtMultiRegionSimpleFoam.
This tutorial should be considered as a starting point and as an invitation to try and improve it. For the beginning it isn't much more than a collection of screen-shots. Please try it and if you get stuck ask for help. If you succeed, we would be very glad if you could use your experiences to improve this tutorial! I find it very difficult to write a good tutorial for enGrid, because most things are obvious to me, because I wrote most of the software.The complete case with all meshing steps and the OPENFOAM® case set-up can be found here:
https://github.com/enGits/enGrid_SteadyChtExample
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| Geometry inside Blender |
| images/Tutorial_HeatExchanger/engrid_01.png |
| Geometry after import of *.begc file |
| images/Tutorial_HeatExchanger/engrid_02.png |
| Output of mesh consistency check |
| images/Tutorial_HeatExchanger/engrid_03.png |
| Definition of volumes |
| images/Tutorial_HeatExchanger/engrid_04.png |
| Mesh size specifications |
| images/Tutorial_HeatExchanger/engrid_05.png |
| Completed surface mesh for all surfaces |
| images/Tutorial_HeatExchanger/engrid_06.png |
| Volume mesh of solid region |
| images/Tutorial_HeatExchanger/engrid_07.png |
| Volume mesh of cold water region |
| images/Tutorial_HeatExchanger/engrid_08.png |
| Volume mesh of hot water region |
| images/Tutorial_HeatExchanger/engrid_09.png |
| Inlet and outlet extrusion |
| images/Tutorial_HeatExchanger/engrid_10.png |
| Volume definition for extruded patches |
