Applications: Overset Course

This course covers Theoretical and Applied concepts using overset (chimera) meshing in OpenFOAM. The course organisers are application experts in all engineering sectors, especially transportation: Automotive, Aerospace, Marine, Rail.

The training provides examples of process and best practice, which are useful to existing OpenFOAM users wishing to broaden their application knowledge of OpenFOAM towards using overset meshing as an alternative to mesh morphing or sliding interfaces.

All features demonstrated in this course are part of the Official release of OpenFOAM.

Topics Covered

  • Meshing for overset
    • basics of background and foreground mesh generation, and assembly
    • interpolation controls, solver settings
  • Basic tutorials
  • heat conduction
    • static aerofoil at several angle of attacks
    • transient cylinder shedding
    • counter-rotating blades
    • 6DoF floating body
  • Limitations, e.g. object collisions
  • Application examples
    • Overtaking vehicles
    • Passing high speed trains
    • Manoeuvring ship including hull, propeller, and rudder interaction
    • Propeller fan
  • Post-processing
  • Running in parallel

Nuggets

  • Applied deflections in interaction pressure zones (FSI, 6DoF)
  • Tips, Tricks and Best practises
  • OpenSource community interactions

Course details

Delivery

OpenCFD delivers this virtual course via your laptop’s web connection. Running any operating system (Windows, Linux, Mac OS), linked using secure ssh connection and remote desktop via VNC, you are given a secure personal login to ESI Cloud to run all OpenFOAM training exercises. Audio-visual link to the Trainer is made through a web-meeting.

Materials

For online courses, users will receive a printable pdf with a manual containing the course presentation and additional materials.
Classroom attendees will receive a high-quality, A5-sized (80-100 page) wire-bound manual containing the course presentation and additional materials.
Please note: registration and payment for classroom courses must be completed at least 10 days in advance of the training date to allow sufficient time for material delivery.

Language

The language used in all OpenFOAM courses is English. Translations or delivery in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese and Korean languages are available on request.

Course times

1 day: Delivery times are suitable for attendees in EMEA time zones (Europe, Middle East and Africa). Delivery in other time-zones can be arranged on request, please contact us for details.

Target audience

This Aeroacoustics course is suitable for existing users of OpenFOAM seeking to broaden their application knowledge, background knowledge and CFD best practice knowledge for CFD noise prediction.

Prerequisites

Prior knowledge of OpenFOAM, C++, Linux via the Foundation and Advanced courses is beneficial.