With the Third Party software installed and environment updated, compile OpenFOAM by going into the OpenFOAM-dev directory.  It contains a script named Allwmake which can execute the compilation in serial, by default, or parallel with the -j option.  It can also compile multiple libraries and executables simultaneously with the -q […]

OpenFOAM relies on third-party software packages for some important tasks: Scotch, PT-Scotch and Zoltan for domain decomposition and redistribution for parallel running. This is essential for non-trivial geometries for which simpler bisection-based methods produce inefficient decompositions. ParaView visualization application. This is essential for interactive pre- and post-processing, but may not […]

As the root user (e.g. typing sudo -i), programming tools can be installed by executing the following commands in a terminal: yum groupinstall ‘Development Tools’ yum install openmpi openmpi-devel yum install epel-release yum install –nogpgcheck qtwebkit qtwebkit-devel yum install –nogpgcheck CGAL CGAL-devel The Boost C++ library is installed automatically for […]