OpenFOAM® tutorial: Fan & Fins – Conjugate heat transfert

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chtMultiRegionFoam solver

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This tutorial shows how to set up a numerical model with conjugated heat transfer using the chtMultiRegionFoam solver. The case configuration is a fan cooling a finned radiator mounted on a heat dissipating component. The fan is modeled through specific boundary conditions simulating a zero-thickness actuator disk. The tutorial uses many advanced features of OpenFOAM® to efficiently simulate an industrial heat transfer application:

  • chtMultiRegionFoam with 3 domains (1 fluid and 2 solids), transient and turbulent flow, perfect gas.
  • snappyHexMesh in multi-regions framework with boundary layer insertion.
  • fan modeling (pressure and tangential velocity jump) using performance curve p = f (U).
  • source term for heat generation in a solid element.

Calculation time:

  • Around 2 hours on 4 cores – i7-4700MQ CPU @ 2.40GHz.

Prerequisites/Information:

  • OpenFOAM®: Tested on versions 1812+ // 1906+. Warning, the tutorial does not work with versions (4.0, 5.0, 6.0, 7.0 etc.) from the OpenFOAM® Foundation (www.openfoam.org).

  • The tutorial is designed to run on 4 cores but can be easily modified to be run on the number of core chosen by the user.
  • Paraview (post-processing).

CFD-training does not give any warranty to the numerical results obtained within this tutorial due to the absence of verification or validation.

 

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