FOAM FATAL ERROR: Unknown TurbulenceModel type RASModel

i am new to openfoam , was using pisoFoam for led driven cavity and getting this message in the terminal when i run the solver

Valid TurbulenceModel types: 3 ( LES RAS laminar )

Added ~19 label

Reassigned to @Prashant

With latest OpenFOAM, the specification of turbulenceModel file is changed. Please refer to any of the standard tutorials e.g. motorBike.

As reported on error message, you need to use

• "RAS" instead of "RASModel"

• "LES" instead of "LESModel"

as your turbulence model.

Status changed to closed

assigned to @mark and unassigned @Prashant

As part of "slimming down", we should prefer a simple model keyword instead of RASModel etc.

Eg, before

simulationType  RAS;

RAS
{
    RASModel kEpsilon;
    turbulence      on;
    printCoeffs     on;
}

Simpler (future)

simulationType  RAS;

RAS
{
    model   kEpsilon;
    turbulence      on;
    printCoeffs     on;
}

Requiring RASModel within an RAS dictionary seems unnecessarily redundant.

• will provide compat methods with a silent treatment (I don't think that we need to flag this with copious warning messages for another version or so).

reopened

@andy - previously discussed, but probably an ok time to address now.

mentioned in commit 42ce617b

closed

@kuti and @Prashant

We will hold off changing any of the tutorials until closer to the next release to avoid too much divergence between the develop branch and the master branch for a bit longer. The recent merge (!379 (merged)) will be my basis for the windows re-release (2006).