OpenFOAM version 4.0 is a major new version of OpenFOAM that increases CFD productivity by significant improvements to general usability, post-processing, case management and software management. It provides a solid platform for the future, sustainable development of OpenFOAM through reimplementation of core and major libraries, over 120 bug fixes and much better consistency, robustness and performance. It is packed with numerous new and improved boundary conditions, new rigid body dynamics libraries, and developments in turbulence and transport modelling, meshing, ACMI and multiphase, reacting flow. OpenFOAM 4.0 is supplied as:
- a packaged installation for Ubuntu Linux — the simplest installation option for OpenFOAM;
- a source pack for compilation on other Linux distributions.
For Ubuntu 14.04LTS, 16.04LTS
For Compilation on GNU/Linux
The OpenFOAM Foundation, which licenses and distributes OpenFOAM free and open source to the the public, is pleased to announce the upgrade of its website at https://openfoam.org.
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 […]
OpenFOAM version 3.0.1 is a patch release of version 3.0.0 that fixes critical bugs and improves usability and consistency in the code. As a patch release, we strongly recommend users of v3.0.0 upgrade to this version; users of the Ubuntu pack (openfoam30) will receive 3.0.1 as part of a system upgrade, e.g. with “apt-get upgrade”. Version 3.0.1 is distributed as:
- a packaged installation for Ubuntu Linux — the simplest installation option for OpenFOAM;
- a source pack for compilation on other Linux distributions.
For Ubuntu 14.04LTS, 15.10
For Compilation on GNU/Linux
