Download v12 | Linux
OpenFOAM 12 for Linux distributions other than Ubuntu, e.g. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) , Fedora, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES), openSuSE, and Debian.
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OpenFOAM Repo: 3. Setting the Environment
Environment variable settings for OpenFOAM are contained in files in the OpenFOAM-dev/etc directory. To compile OpenFOAM, the user must ‘source’ the environment, either the bashrc file if they are running the bash or ksh shell, or the cshrc file if they are running the tcsh or csh shell. To check the shell, type “echo $SHELL”. The […]
OpenFOAM Repo: 2. Downloading Source Code
First choose a directory location for the installation directory of OpenFOAM. If the installation is for a single user only, or if the user does not have administrative privileges (or root access) to the machine, we recommend the installation directory is $HOME/OpenFOAM (i.e. a directory OpenFOAM in the user’s home directory). If the installer has […]
Compiling OpenFOAM from Source Code
Compiling OpenFOAM from Source Code on GNU/Linux
OpenFOAM Repo: 1. Software for Compilation
The following supporting software is required to download and compile OpenFOAM from one of the source repositories. For Ubuntu, the installation of required software packages is described towards the bottom of the page. Other Linux distributions require equivalent packages which are named accordingly within the respective distributions. Repository and compilation software Git distributed version control […]
Funding OpenFOAM in 2024
OpenFOAM is mature, open source software for CFD, which is trusted by many thousands of engineers and scientists in industry and academia worldwide. It provides an alternative to proprietary CFD software where licensing can start at $25k for a single user running in serial per year, increasing to group/parallel licences of $100k-200k+ and corporate licences of $1M+. OpenFOAM needs €500k in 2024 for maintenance so welcomes new organisations to fund it from one of 3 levels of support: Platinum (€100k per year), Gold (€25k) and Silver (€5k). Silver is for organisations with individual CFD users, Gold is for organisations with a dedicated CFD group and Platinum is suited to organisations that depend on OpenFOAM at a strategic level.
Previous Funding Campaigns
Previous Funding Campaigns Funding OpenFOAM in 2023 Our campaign to fund OpenFOAM in 2023 exceeded €250k. €250k was the target in previous years but in 2023 we doubled this to €500k in order to meet the increasing demands of the OpenFOAM users. O… 8th November 2022 Read More Funding OpenFOAM in 2022 Our campaign to […]
Download v11 | Linux
OpenFOAM 11 for Linux distributions including Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) v7+, Fedora v22+, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) v12+, openSuSE v13+ and Debian 8+. Uses Docker to provide a self-contained environment that includes code, runtime, system tools and libraries, independent of the underlying operating system.
OpenFOAM & ParaView 5.10
For Ubuntu 20.04LTS, 22.04LTS, 22.10 and Windows 10 and Docker images for other Linux and macOS
Funding OpenFOAM in 2023
Our campaign to fund OpenFOAM in 2023 exceeded €250k. €250k was the target in previous years but in 2023 we doubled this to €500k in order to meet the increasing demands of the OpenFOAM users. OpenFOAM is funded through commitments from supporting organisations to fund maintenance. To meet our new target we need further support from organisations who are commercially dependent on OpenFOAM and who are making significant savings in proprietary licence fees.