The fireFoam solver has solver has been replaced by the more general
buoyantReactingFoam solver, which supports buoyant compressible reacting flow
coupled to multiple run-time-selectable lagrangian clouds and surface film
modelling and optional hydrostatic initialisation of the pressure and p_rgh.
Hydrostatic initialisation of the pressure fields is useful for large fires in
open domains where the stability of the initial flow is dominated by the initial
pressure distribution in the domain and at the boundaries. The optional
hydrostaticInitialization switch in fvSolution/PIMPLE with
nHydrostaticCorrectors enables hydrostatic initialisation, e.g.
PIMPLE
{
momentumPredictor yes;
nOuterCorrectors 1;
nCorrectors 2;
nNonOrthogonalCorrectors 0;
hydrostaticInitialization yes;
nHydrostaticCorrectors 5;
}
and the resulting ph_rgh field can be used with the prghTotalHydrostaticPressure
p_rgh boundary condition to apply this hydrostatic pressure distribution at the
boundaries throughout the simulation.
See the following cases for examples transferred from fireFoam:
$FOAM_TUTORIALS/combustion/buoyantReactingFoam/RAS