PUFoam is an OpenFOAM solver to simulate expansion of polyurethane foams.
It includes Quadrature Method of Moments (QMOM) to solve a Population Balance Equation (PBE) determining the bubble size distribution inside PU foams.
Kinetics of the reactions including gelling, blowing and evaporation of the physical blowing agents (n-pentane and R11) are incorporated into the solver.
Finally, the kinetics and PBE have been coupled to describe the time evolution of the foaming/filling process.
In order to compile the solver and the required libraries execute the following:
user@machine> ./Allwmake
The common compilation errors and the solution are listed here:
Error:
fatal error: sys/cdefs.h: No such file or directory
Solution:
sudo apt-get install libc6-dev-i386
sudo apt-get install libc6-dev
Error:
cannot find crti.o: No such file or directory
Solution:
LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu:$LIBRARY_PATH
export LIBRARY_PATH
- M. Karimi, H. Droghetti, D. L. Marchisio,
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- M. Karimi, H. Droghetti, D. L. Marchisio, Multiscale Modeling of Expand-ing Polyurethane Foams via Computational Fluid Dynamics and Popula-tion Balance Equation, Macromolecular Symposia 360 (2016) 108–122.
- P. Ferkl, M. Karimi, D. L. Marchisio, J. Kosek, Multi-scale modelling of expanding polyurethane foams: coupling macro- and bubble-scales, Chemical Engineering Science (2016).
- MoDeNa-EUProject, Modelling of morphology development of micro- and nanostructures, 2015. URL: https://github.com/MoDeNa-EUProject/MoDeNa
- D. L. Marchisio, R. O. Fox, Computational Models for Polydisperse Particulate and Multiphase Systems, Cambridge University Press, 2013.