United collection of hybrid Central solvers - one-phase, two-phase and multicomponent versions.
Only OpenFOAM+ version of the OpenFOAM technology is supported sinces 2018. Use branches digitef-dev-YYMM, where YYMM - corresponds to OpenFOAM+ version, for example 1812
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pimpleCentralFoam - Pressure-based semi implicit compressible flow of perfect gas solver based on central-upwind schemes of Kurganov and Tadmor with LTS support for steady-state calculations
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rhoPimpleCentralFoam - Pressure-based semi implicit compressible flow of real gas solver based on central-upwind schemes of Kurganov and Tadmor and LTS support for steady-state calculations
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pimpleCentralDyMFoam - Pressure-based semi implicit compressible flow of perfect gas solver based on central-upwind schemes of Kurganov and Tadmor with mesh motion and LTS support for steady-state calculations
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reactingPimpleCentralFoam - Pressure-based semi implicit compressible flow solver based on central-upwind schemes of Kurganov and Tadmor for combustion with chemical reactions and LTS support for steady-state calculations
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twoPhaseMixingCentralFoam - Transient Eulerian two-phase solver. Liquid and gas are considered as compressible fluids. Mass transfer at the interface is not accounted.
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twoPhaseMixingCentralDyMFoam - Transient Eulerian two-phase solver with dynamic meshes. Liquid and gas are considered as compressible fluids. Mass transfer at the interface is not accounted.
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chtMultiRegionCentralFoam - Pressure-based semi implicit solver, based on hybrid central-upwind schemes of Kurganov and Tadmor for conjugate simulation of compressible flows of perfect gas (Mach number is ranging from 0 to 6) and solid body heat transfer.
Available OpenFOAM versions:
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OpenFOAM 3.1 - master branch
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OpenFOAM 4.1 - dev-of4.1 branch
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OpenFOAM 6 - dev-of6 branch
When using these solvers, please cite the following works:
- Kraposhin MV, Banholzer M, Pfitzner M, Marchevsky IK. A hybrid pressure‐based solver for nonideal single‐phase fluid flows at all speeds. Int J Numer Meth Fluids. 2018;88:79–99. https://doi.org/10.1002/fld.4512
- Kraposhin MV, Strijhak SV, Bovtrikova A Adaptation of Kurganov-Tadmor Numerical Scheme for Applying in Combination with the PISO Method in Numerical Simulation of Flows in a Wide Range of Mach Numbers. Procedia Computer Science. 2015;66:43-52. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2015.11.007