@j-signorelli thanks for the PR! Could you please write a sentence here (or directly in the README.md of the tutorial) on how the initial flow file has been created?

Note to self: even though the system tests pass, they actually don't yet cover this case (flow-over-heated-plate with SU2).

Had to do some digging... The initial flow file was generated using the attached config file, solving for the adiabatic steady-state flow:

laminar_config_steady.cfg.txt

Unfortunately I have no recollection why I did this... Maybe it was to have a flowfield that satisfies the BCs as the IC?

It looks like to me that the OpenFOAM IC uses just a uniform flow as the IC (is this correct?) so at first glance it makes more sense to use this instead. I will look into this.

Thanks for the update! Clearly, starting from a better initial state is better.

With the risk of contradicting myself (we already had a similar discussion for the perpendicular-flap in #612), I would say let's go for the initialized flow, provided that we document how we got it and how to start from an uninitialized flow, if needed. In this tutorial, we only have SU2 and OpenFOAM as flow solvers, and doing the same in OpenFOAM is very easy, e.g., with potentialFoam (I can do it).

I did some comparisons:

We could also link to this page: https://su2code.github.io/docs_v7/Restart-File/