OpenFOAM cases for the Validation of the CHT Model

<p>This dataset contains the<em>&nbsp;underlying data</em>&nbsp;for the paper &quot; <em>Conjugate Heat Transfer Modeling of a Cold Plate Design for Hybrid-Cooled Data Centers</em>&rdquo;&nbsp;in Energies Journal.</p> <p>https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/16/7/3088&nbsp;</p> <p>Numerical simulations are performed using the open-source CFD code OpenFoam. Features of the numerical model described in the paper can be summarized as:</p> <ul> <li>This data set contains <em>OpenFoam</em> cases for the validation of the thermal model with the experimental data in the literature (Saitoh et al. 1993) using both <em>buoyantPimpleFoam</em> and <em>chtMultiRegionFoam</em> solvers.</li> </ul> <p><em>Saitoh, T.; Sajiki, T.; Maruhara, K. Benchmark solutions to natural convection heat transfer problem around a horizontal circular cylinder. Int. J. Heat Mass Trans. 1993, 36, 1251&ndash;1259.</em></p> <ul> <li>A multi-region unstructured mesh was created using Salome software and exported as unv files. The generated unv files can be found in the corresponding directories.</li> <li><em>Allmesh</em> script imports regions from the unv files to the <em>OpenFoam</em> and runs <em>createPatch</em> file for the application of boundary conditions .</li> <li><em>Allrun</em>&nbsp;script runs transient simulation using parallel computing.</li> <li><em>postProcess</em>&nbsp;script compares case results with experimental results and generates a plot in the directory results.</li> <li>Flow inside air and water regions are considered as laminar due to the low Reynolds numbers.</li> <li>Numerical schemes used in the solutions of constitutive equations are carefully selected to obtain results consistent with the experimental data.</li> </ul> <p>A new function object is developed for the calculation of the Nusselt number on the cylinder. This library can be downloaded via the following link and sould be&nbsp; compiled before cases are run:&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p><a href="https://github.com/DSTECHNO/NusseltNumber">https://github.com/DSTECHNO/NusseltNumber</a></p> <p><strong>FreeConvectionBPF.tar.gz:</strong>&nbsp;<em>OpenFoam</em> files and scripts for the transient simulation of free convection case using <em>buoyantPimpleFoam</em> solver.</p> <p><strong>FreeConvectionCHT.tar.gz:</strong>&nbsp;<em>OpenFoam</em> files and scripts for the transient simulation of free convection case using <em>chtMultiRegionFoam</em> solver.</p> <p><strong>ForcedConvectionBPF.tar.gz:</strong>&nbsp;OpenFoam files and scripts for the transient simulation of forced convection case using <em>buoyantPimpleFoam</em> solver.</p> <p><strong>ForcedConvectionCHT.tar.gz: &nbsp;</strong><em>OpenFoam</em> files and scripts for the transient simulation of forced convection case using <em>chtMultiRegionFoam</em> solver.</p>