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/