rhoCentralFoam is a density based compressible solver for high speed flows. It uses central-upwind schemes of Kurganov and Tadmor and has great potential in solving high speed flow problems. In this work, we explored rhoCentralFoam implementation and used it to solve a benchmark problem to analyze its performance
Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulation for Shocktube
Abstract
In this study, we modelled a pressure driven nozzle flow with shock in rhoCentralFoam solver, which can have further applications in studying shockwave overpressures in pressured vessels.
Here you can see a discontinuous normal shock between inlet and outlet of the nozzle