icoFoam

Table of Contents

• Overview
• Equations
• Input requirements
  • Physical models
  • Solution controls
• Further information

Overview

• Category: Incompressible
• transient
• incompressible

Equations

The solver uses the PISO algorithm to solve the continuity equation:

\[ \div \u = 0 \]

and momentum equation:

\[ \ddt{\u} + \div ( \u \otimes \u ) - \div ( \nu \grad \u ) = - \grad p \]

Where:

\( \u \)	=	Velocity
\( p \)	=	Kinematic pressure

Input requirements

Mandatory fields:

• p: kinematic pressure [m2/s2]
• U: velocity [m/s]

Physical models

• None

Solution controls

• Schemes
• Linear equation solvers
• controlDict

Further information

Source code

• $FOAM_APP/solvers/incompressible/icoFoam

See also

• pimpleFoam

Tutorials

• $FOAM_TUTORIALS/incompressible/icoFoam

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