Numerical Coupling between a FEM Code and the FVM Code OpenFOAM Using the MED Library

Autor: Giacomo Barbi, Antonio Cervone, Federico Giangolini, Sandro Manservisi, Lucia Sirotti
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Applied Sciences, Vol 14, Iss 9, p 3744 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2076-3417
DOI: 10.3390/app14093744
Popis: This paper investigates a numerical code-coupling technique to tackle multiphysics and multiscale simulations using state-of-the-art software packages that typically address some specific modeling domain. The coupling considers the in-house FEM code FEMuS and the FVM code OpenFOAM by exploiting the MED library from the SALOME platform. The present approach is tested on a buoyancy-driven fluid flow within a square cavity, where the buoyancy force constitutes the coupling term. In uncoupled scenarios, momentum and temperature equations are solved in both FEM and FVM codes without data exchange. In the coupled setting, only the OpenFOAM velocity and the FEMuS temperature fields are solved separately and shared at each time step (or vice versa). The MED library handles the coupling with ad hoc data structures that perform the field transfer between codes. Different Rayleigh numbers are investigated, comparing the outcomes of coupled and uncoupled cases with the reference literature results. Additionally, a boundary data transfer application is presented to extend the capabilities of the coupling algorithm to coupled applications with separate domains. In this problem, the two domains share interfaces and boundary values on specific fields as fluxes are exchanged between the two numerical codes.
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