CFD for Biological Flows

This tutorial guides you through the process of simulating a periodic blood flow over an the arch of aorta using OpenFOAM, including mesh generation, solver setup, and post-processing. We'll use OpenFOAM utilities blockMesh and snappyHexMesh for meshing. The main part of this study is mesh convergence study. You are going to make three different meshes from a coarse one to fine, and check results depending on the mesh quality. We focus on use of ParaView and LaTeX for qualitative and quantitative analysis.

• Lecture 6.1: Pre-processing and Computing

  • You will generate three different meshes.
  • You will learn how to set unsteady inlet boundary condition.
  • You will compute parallel for the first time.

• Lecture 6.2: Post-processing using ParaView

  • You will learn how to generate several post-processing figures.

• Lecture 6.3: Assignment 3

  • You will be given your third assignment.

https://doi.org/10.3390/fluids8100272