This allows much greater flexibility in the instantiation of reaction system
which may in general depend on fields other than the thermodynamic state. This
also simplifies mixture thermodynamics removing the need for the reactingMixture
and the instantiation of all the thermodynamic package combinations depending on
it.
which are now read directly from the thermophysicalProperties dictionary for
consistency with non-reacting mixture thermodynamics. The species thermo and
reactions lists can still be in separate files if convenient and included into
the thermophysicalProperties file using the standard dictionary #include.
This formalises the flexible and extensible OpenFOAM thermodynamics and reaction
format as the direct input to OpenFOAM solvers. The CHEMKIN format is still
supported by first converting to the OpenFOAM format using the chemkinToFoam
utility.
For example in the combustion/coldEngineFoam/freePiston/0/p field the
internalField entry may be obtained from the include/caseSettings dictionary
using either a relative path:
internalField uniform $include/caseSettings!internalField/p;
or an absolute path:
internalField uniform ${$FOAM_CASE/0/include/caseSettings!internalField/p};
in which recursive substitution using ${...} is applied to expand the $FOAM_CASE
environment variable.
XiEngineFoam is a premixed/partially-premixed combustion engine solver which
exclusively uses the Xi flamelet combustion model.
engineFoam is a general engine solver for inhomogeneous combustion with or
without spray supporting run-time selection of the chemistry-based combustion
model.
