Dear Bharat,

I would suggest OpenFOAM (http://www.openfoam.com/). OpenFOAM is a free, open source CFD software package developed by OpenCFD Ltd at ESI Group and distributed by the OpenFOAM Foundation . OpenFOAM has an extensive range of features to solve anything from complex fluid flows involving chemical reactions, turbulence and heat transfer, to solid dynamics and electromagnetics.

Best wishes,

Luca

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Prof. Luca Cortelezzi

Department of Mechanical Engineering

McGill University

[email protected]

http://people.mcgill.ca/luca.cortelezzi/

Thanks for your reply sir.

Regards,

Bharat

COMSOL Multiphysics have some working models in two-phase flow. But it is not open source.

Dear Bharat

I am not sure why you would need to solve NS equation for porous media flow unless you are modeling pore scale process but even for pore scale there are other simple approaches. If you are thinking of simulating two-phase flow in porous media, STOMP developed by PNNL, USA may be good option. There are other option e.g., MUFTE-G. expensive options are ECLIPSE etc. Please drop me an email at [email protected], I will send you some papers on the topic. I would not use FLUENT or COMSOL for these kind of problem

best regards

Diganta Bhusan Das

Thanks Prof. Das. I appreciate you replying my all queries on RG related to porous media. I will drop you mail tonight.

Sincerest Thanks & Regards,

Bharat

Dear Dr. Sharma,

You might find DuMuX useful. It's a open source code for modeling  compositional flow and transport processes in porous media. You can also find the extensions to Forchheimer and Brinkman (www.dumux.org).

Regards,

Vishal

Hi Vishal,

I am working on 'mass transfer problems considering the coupling of porous media flow and turbulent free flow', and have decided to choose between DuMuX and OpenFOAM. I notice that in this paper (http://www.hydrosys.uni-stuttgart.de/institut/hydrosys/publikationen/paper/2011/2011-11-poster-eindhoven.pdf), the DuMuX developers were considering to write their own RANS in DuMuX  as well as take advantage of the RANS models in OpenFOAM.  

So, here I have three choices:

1) develop RANS in DuMux and do everything in DuMux

2) develop everything in OpenFOAM

3) combine the two by creating an interface

Can you give me some advice or comments on the above three ideas?

Thank you very much!

Regards,

Yan Wang