Tag: ParaView

Using ParaView 5.13 with OpenFOAM 14 to measure, not just to visualise: profiles with Plot Over Line, section averages and flow rates with Integrate Variables, pressure drop, comparison with the Poiseuille profile and an RMSE error, recirculation regions, CSV export and reproducible PVSM states, client/server from Windows.

An operating guide to using OpenFOAM 14 installed on a Linux server while working from a Windows PC: preparing cases in Notepad++, SFTP transfers with FileZilla, running over SSH from PowerShell with tmux, inspecting logs with klogg and visualizing results with ParaView connected to pvserver through an SSH tunnel.

The laminar channel rebuilt with a structured Gmsh mesh imported through gmshToFoam: patches, changeDictionary and a comparison with blockMesh giving identical results.

First case of the OpenFOAM 14 path: a laminar parallel-plate channel built from scratch with blockMesh, solved with foamRun and validated against the Poiseuille profile (0.15% error).