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*[http://www.openfoam.com OpenFOAM Home Page]
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* [http://www.openfoam.org OpenFOAM Foundation Home Page]
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** [http://www.openfoam.com OpenFOAM Home Page] - commercial side by OpenCFD Ltd
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** [http://www.opencfd.co.uk/ OpenCFD Ltd] - automatically redirects to [http://www.openfoam.com www.openfoam.com]
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*[http://openfoam.cfd-online.com/forum OpenFOAM Discussion Forum]
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* [http://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/openfoam/ OpenFOAM Discussion Forum]
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*[http://openfoamwiki.net OpenFOAM Wiki]
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* [http://openfoamwiki.net (unofficial) OpenFOAM Wiki]
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*[http://www.mfix.org/mwiki/index.php/Main_Page OpenFOAM training material], courtesy of the MFIX development team
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* [http://www.foamcfd.org FOAM CFD] - website still operational, acting as an historic reference
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** [http://www.foamcfd.org/Nabla/ Nabla Ltd. Home Page] - backup of the old nabla.co.uk, kept as an historic reference
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*[http://www.opencfd.co.uk/ OpenCFD Ltd]
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* [http://wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenFOAM OpenFOAM on Wikipedia]
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*[http://www.foamcfd.org FOAM CFD]
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Revision as of 19:12, 2 May 2014

OpenFOAM is a general purpose open-source CFD code. OpenFOAM is written in C++ and uses an object oriented approach which makes it easy to extend. The package includes modules for a wide range of applications.

FOAM was written by Henry Weller and others at Imperial College. For a few years FOAM was sold as a commercial code by the company Nabla Ltd. However, in 2004 FOAM was released under GPL and was renamed to OpenFOAM. OpenFOAM is currently distributed by OpenCFD Ltd.

OpenFOAM is a very capable code which you definitely should check out if you are looking for a state-of-the-art CFD code with source-code access. The numerics implemented in OpenFOAM uses the Finite Volume Method on unstructured meshes. OpenFOAM provides many capabilities, including free-surface and multi-phase flow modelling, lagrangian spray model and automatic mesh motion.

External Links

  • FOAM CFD - website still operational, acting as an historic reference
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