/PowerRanch

Power Ranch CFD code

Files for Power Ranch

Files for the Power Ranch model used in this paper: Sen, S., Roesler, J., Ruddell, B., & Middel, A. (2019). Cool Pavement Strategies for Urban Heat Island Mitigation in Suburban Phoenix, Arizona. Sustainability, 11(16), 4452.

Run on OpenFOAM v 6.0 and Python3

To use

Navigate to any of the folders.

Generate the mesh

gmsh -3 PowerRanchArea.geo PowerRanchArea.msh

Import the mesh into OpenFOAM:

gmshToFoam PowerRanchArea.msh

Modify polyMesh with this command (based on changeDictionaryDict):

changeDictionary

Run the following command from the terminal inside any of the folders:

bash runthis

The following processes will be run:

  1. Any leftover processor or post-processing folders will be deleted
  2. Any leftover log files will be deleted (use mv to rename if you need it!)
  3. Any intermediate output folders will be deleted
  4. The domain will be decomposed based on decomposeParDict
  5. Parallel run of renumberMesh (edit to specify number of processors; use nprocto check how many are available)
  6. The solver is run (buoyantBoussinesqSimpleFoam; OpenFOAM v 7.0 uses a different command)
  7. Subdomain solutions are reconstructed
  8. Post-processing steps executed (varies, check individual files)
  9. Shutdown instance (IMPORTANT: Comment this out if you don't need it!)

Use the following command to plot residuals and other plots:

bash plotthis