Finnish OpenFOAM Users Day 2009
Welcoming introduction
Esko Järvinen
CSC
OpenFOAM® (Open Field Operation and
Manipulation) CFD Toolbox
OpenCFD Ltd web page: ”… can simulate anything from complex fluid
flows involving chemical reactions, turbulence and heat transfer, to solid
dynamics, electromagnetics and the pricing of financial options.”
User Guide: ”OpenFOAM is first and foremost a C++ library, used
primarily to create executables, … ”
Uses finite volume numerics
Is freely available and open source, licensed under the GNU General
Public License (GPL)
OpenFOAM user environment
(Modification of the slide by Andrew King, Curtin University)
Geometry Meshing Solver Postprocessing
BlockMesh Utilities
SnappyHexMesh ParaView
Netgen
OpenFOAM OpenDX
enGrid
CAD tools gmesh
Ansys Fluent/Gambit ANSYS CFX
Ansys CFX/CFXMesh ANSYS Fluent
Others Others Others
OpenFOAM Open source Commersial
OpenFOAM –Never ending software project
Community matters
OpenFOAM core development
Contribution forums
Finnish users
Contributing users
Other users
Local operations could be Local community?
• Workshops, courses etc.
• Other information change, such as
on OpenFOAM-foorumi web page
http://www.openfoamfoorumi.com/
