OpenFOAM CFD Toolkit

Overview

OpenFOAM is the leading open source toolkit for computational fluid dynamics. It ships a large library of solvers and physics models covering incompressible and compressible flow, heat transfer, turbulence, multiphase and reacting flows, together with mesh generation, mesh manipulation and post processing utilities, so a complete simulation workflow from geometry to results runs entirely on the command line.

The OpenFOAM Foundation line uses a single modular runtime: a case describes its physics, mesh and numerics as plain text dictionaries and selects a solver module, then runs by generating a mesh and launching the solver. Engineers, researchers and students use it to model aerodynamics, hydrodynamics, HVAC, turbomachinery, combustion and many other flow problems on infrastructure they control, at any scale from a single workstation to a batch compute node.

Common uses

• Running steady and transient CFD simulations across engineering and research workflows
• Meshing complex geometry and solving flow, heat transfer and turbulence problems on your own infrastructure
• A ready to use OpenFOAM workstation or batch compute node for command line CFD