Hi everyone,
Valerio Novaresio and his team have developed a laminar diffusion library. I'd like to refer you to this thread where Valerio was kind enough to find me and comment on what I was looking to do:

www.extend-project.de/component/kunena/1...tion-in-reactingfoam

Let us post to this thread regarding any uses of Valerio and Co's code as well as any development for us laminar reaction people.

have a great day,
Ryan

Hello,

I am also interested on the development of laminar diffusion in OpenFOAM®.

I have developed a initial solver for multicomponent mass transport with Fickian diffusion model based on the scalarTransportFoam and PrtList's.

Now I am working on the code extension to Maxwell-Stefan but I am not considering reactions.

I am currently dedicating some time to figure out the best way to use the thermophysical library in this problem and I really would like to hear you thoughts on that.

Regards,

Livia Jatobá

I am also studing the changes on the thermophysical library in the OpenFOAM® 2.0 version.

It seems that the changes gave a really better sintax to the thermophysicalProperties dictionary. The question now is to keep the development on the 1.6 extended version or use the 2.0 version...

Regards,

Livia Jatobá

Hi Livia!
I am excited to see you have joined the laminar reacting efforts on OpenFOAM® ext.

The themodynamic data has been a tough obsticale for me, it would be really nice if I could use something like Chemkin in openFOAM to continously update the solvers, but I believe it is more complicated than that.

There are efforts involved in OpenFOAM® 1.5 to use cantera in OpenFOAM® and that group seems to have had some significant progress. I have yet to investigate the 1.5 cantera version, as I am running on 1.7 (recompiling all of OpenFOAM® is tough on my machines). Right now I am "trusting" the inner workings of OpenFOAM®, and I must warn that it gets kind of complicated when trying to simply recover the thermophysical data in OpenFOAM®.

Currently I am working on surface reaction boundary condition model and having access to the library is proving to be difficult for these efforts. I will keep this forum posted, as well as work on a wiki article to better understand the thermodynamic library.

What type of thermodynamic input are you using? I am using a Chemkin II file that I converted using chemkinToFoam.

have a great day!

Hi,

have a look on www.cfd-online.com/Forums/openfoam/86530...compressiblegas.html where thermodynamic data (input file) are explained for Janaf thermoModel.

I am very interested in OpenFOAM® + Cantera, but unfortunately I haven't found nothing for 1.6-ext version o 1.7 (or 2.0) version.

Wiki article on thermodynamic library? Great idea!
Tell me if you need some help (of course if I am able to help you).

keeping in touch

Valerio

Let's definitely get started on that wiki article...but first I need to figure out how I can attain the thermodynamic data while running the code. For instance, I thought it be as easy as: thermo.composition().W() to get atomic weights but honestly it is proving quite difficult to just find that! Any point to the correct class where I can find the information needed to get atomic wts of species (the ones from my therm.dat file not the ones tabulated) I'd greatly appreciate it! and I'll follow up with a full investigation:)
thanks ahead,
Ryan