OpenFOAM
OpenFOAM is a library
of C++ routines which facilitate the numerical solution of
partial differential equations. Using this library, many different
solvers (included with the software) have been built to address many
classes of problems in fluid dynamics (and other fields as well).
OpenFOAM is designed to be a flexible, programmable
environment for simulation by having top-level code that is a direct
representation of the equations being solved.
OpenFOAM includes numerous C++ classes for finite volume,
finite
element, and Lagrangian particle tracking. OpenFOAM also comes with
numerous computational fluid dynamics, combustion, and heat transfer
programs that demonstrate the capabilities and usage of OpenFOAM. These
solvers are useful for a wide range of scientific and engineering
applications and can be customized as needed.
Features include:
- Creating solvers
- Users have total freedom to create
or modify a solver
- Compiled solvers tailored by a
user for a specific need rather than ’bolt-on’
subroutines, making OpenFOAM ideal for research and development.
- All facilities -- pre- and
post-processing, models and utilities -- are compiled using the
OpenFOAM C++ library. This ensures consistency across the whole of the
OpenFOAM distribution, rather than having a suite of packages compiled
from entirely separate source code.
- Transparent solution algorithms
which can be viewed by the user, encouraging better understanding of
the underlying physics
- Standard solvers:
- Basic CFD codes
- Incompressible flow
- Compressible flows
- Multiphase flows
- DNS and LES
- Combustion
- Heat transfer
- Electromagnetics
- Solid dynamics
- Finance
- AdjointShapeOptimizationFoam
- magneticFoam
- Pre-processing:
- FoamX, a JAVA/C++
graphic user interface
(GUI) tool to manage case files
- Set of utilities that perform specific
pre-processing tasks
- Post-processing:
- ParaFoam,
a reader module for
OpenFOAM data for the open source visualization application ParaView
- Reader modules and data converters for
post-processing with other third party products, including EnSight,
Fieldview and
AVS/Express
- Wide set of utilities
that perform specific post-processing tasks
- Mesh processing:
- blockMesh, a simple
esh generator
- Mesh conversion:
- Converter utlities for
the major commercial mesh generators
- Mesh manipulation:
- Several utilties that perform mesh
checking and manipulation
- Huge
set of libraries: Turbulence, Large-eddy simulation (LES), Transport
models, Thermophysical models, Lagrangian particle tracking, and
Chemical kinetics
- Surface film
- Steady-state VoF
- Lagrangian modelling
- Thermophysical modelling
- Arbitrary mesh interface (AMI)
- Free surface flows can be simulated
- Physical modelling
- Multiphase modelling
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