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Physical Properties Setup

Physical properties are stored in directory constant
Let us look in it:
# ls $FOAM_RUN/icoFoam/cavity/constant
```
polyMesh  transportProperties
```
In the directory one can also find computational mesh and one configuration file transportProperties
There may be numerous files, depending on the solver

Let us write the file transportProperties as a standard output:
# cat $FOAM_RUN/icoFoam/cavity/constant/transportProperties

/*--------------------------------*- C++ -*----------------------------------*\
| =========                 |                                                 |
| \\      /  F ield         | OpenFOAM: The Open Source CFD Toolbox           |
|  \\    /   O peration     | Version:  2.2.1                                  |
|   \\  /    A nd           | Web:      www.OpenFOAM.com                      |
|    \\/     M anipulation  |                                                 |
\*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
FoamFile
{
    version     2.0;
    format      ascii;
    class       dictionary;
    location    "constant";
    object      transportProperties;
}
// * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * //

nu              nu [ 0 2 -1 0 0 0 0 ] 0.01;


// ************************************************************************* //

Configuration file transportProperties has only one parameter – kinematic viscosity nu = 0.01
, , ,
Reynolds number is:
(8.1)

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