HydrothermalFoam —combination of hydrothermal and OpenFOAM — a three dimensional hydro-thermo-transport model designed to resolvefluid flow within submarine hydrothermal circulation systems. HydrothermalFoam has been developed on the OpenFOAM platform, which is a Finite Volume based C++ toolbox for fluid-dynamic simulations and for developing customized numerical solvers that provides access to state-of-the-art parallelized solvers and to a wide range of pre- and post-processing tools. We have implemented a porous media Darcy-flow model with associated boundary conditions designed to facilitate numerical simulations of submarine hydrothermal systems. The current implementation is valid for single-phase fluid states and uses a pure water equation-of-state (IAPWS-97). We here present the model formulation, OpenFOAM implementation details, and a sequence of 1-D, 2-D and 3-D benchmark tests. The source code repository further includes a number of tutorials that canbe used as starting points for building specialized hydrothermal flow models.
Documentation: English version, Chinese version
@article{guo2020hydrothermalfoam,
author = {Guo, Zhikui and R{\"{u}}pke, Lars and Tao, Chunhui},
doi = {10.5194/gmd-2020-140},
journal = {Geoscientific Model Development},
number = {July},
title = {{HydrothermalFoam v1 . 0 : a 3-D hydro-thermo-transport model for natural submarine hydrothermal systems}},
year = {2020}
}
HydrothermalFoam is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. See the LICENSE.