OpenFOAM guide/Table of common fields
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This table should give a list of the field names commonly written by the OpenFOAM-Solver.
It was inspired by the discussion What's the meaning of variables in the computed results in the MessageBoard:
Fields written by OpenFOAM | ||
Filename | Description | Dimension |
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U | Velocity | ![]() |
U_0 | Velocity at previous timestep (needed for restarting higher order time-stepping schemes) | ![]() |
phi | Flow through cell faces | ![]() |
p | Pressure | ![]() |
epsilon | Turbulence dissipation rate | ![]() |
k | Turbulence kinetic energy | ![]() |
rho | Gas density | ![]() |
alpha | Dispersed phase volume fraction | - |
Theta | Granular temperature | ![]() |