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 […]

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 […]

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 […]