In this chapter we shall describe in detail the process of setup, simulation and
post-processing for some OpenFOAM test cases, with the principal aim of
introducing a user to the basic procedures of running OpenFOAM. The
$FOAM_TUTORIALS directory contains many more cases that demonstrate the
use of all the solvers and many utilities supplied with OpenFOAM. Before
attempting to run the tutorials, the user must first make sure that they have
installed OpenFOAM correctly.
The tutorial cases describe the use of the blockMesh pre-processing tool, case
setup and running OpenFOAM solvers and post-processing using paraFoam. Those
users with access to third-party post-processing tools supported in OpenFOAM
have an option: either they can follow the tutorials using paraFoam; or refer to the
description of the use of the third-party product in 6 when post-processing is
required.
Copies of all tutorials are available from the tutorials directory of the
OpenFOAM installation. The tutorials are organised into a set of subdirectories
by solver, e.g. all the icoFoam cases are stored within a subdirectory icoFoam. It is
strongly recommended that the user copy the tutorials directory into their local
run directory. If not, they can be easily copied by typing:
