Next: Model setting without an Up: Alternative formulation Previous: Alternative formulation Contents Index Boundary file - Solid Region File constant/polyMesh/boundary must be edited. First remove empty patches, rename non-empty patches and edit their properties14.4: 3 ( solid_hub { type wall; nFaces 696; startFace 563313; } solid_shroud { type wall; nFaces 955; startFace 564009; } solid_rotor_blade { type mappedWall; sampleMode nearestPatchFace; sampleRegion rotor; samplePatch rotor_blade; offsetMode uniform; offset (0 0 0); nFaces 74820; startFace 564964; } ) Patch solid_rotor_blade is adjoining rotor region and is of type mappedWall because heat transfer from the fluid to the solid and vice versa is assumed. Patches solid_hub and solid_shroud are standard wall. OpenFOAM Training by CFD Support, CFD SUPPORT, info@cfdsupport.com +420 212 243 883 © CFD support, s.r.o., Sokolovská 270/201, 190 00 Praha 9, Czech Republic