OpenFOAM v12 | Patch Releases
For Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, 22.04 LTS, 24.04 LTS, Windows and macOS
The OpenFOAM Foundation
For Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, 22.04 LTS, 24.04 LTS, Windows and macOS
The OpenFOAM Foundation is pleased to announce the release of version 12 of the OpenFOAM open source CFD toolbox. Version 12 takes advantage of modular solvers and non-conformal coupling (NCC) to improve simulations with multiple regions, including simplifying meshing and coupling. Work has continued on the rewrite of particle code, e.g. injection and distribution, parallel decomposition, redistribution and load balancing. There are some new, useful boundary conditions and the option to include units, e.g. [bar], with input values, which are converted accordingly. The installation of third party software is easier, with the openfoam12 package for Ubuntu 24.04 & 22.04 now using the standard paraview package.
OpenFOAM 12 includes the following highlights.
For Ubuntu 20.04LTS, 22.04 LTS, 24.04 LTS
OpenFOAM 12 for Linux distributions other than Ubuntu, e.g. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) , Fedora, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES), openSuSE, and Debian.
OpenFOAM 12 for macOS . Uses Canonical Multipass hosting Ubuntu Linux to use the standard OpenFOAM packages on Ubuntu.
For Compilation on GNU/Linux
OpenFOAM packs for Ubuntu 24.04LTS
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For Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, 22.04 LTS, 24.04 LTS, Windows 10 and Docker images for other Linux and macOS
The OpenFOAM Foundation is pleased to announce the release of version 11 of the OpenFOAM open source CFD toolbox. Version 11 introduces modular solvers written as classes, in contrast to the traditional application solvers, integral to OpenFOAM since icoFoam in 1993. Modular solvers are simpler to maintain and extend, and are more flexible for multi-region simulations, e.g. conjugate heat transfer (CHT) with any type of flow, e.g. multiphase. Everything is backward-compatible, so: 1) application solvers will still compile in OpenFOAM; 2) launching an old application solver, e.g. simpleFoam, executes a script which runs the incompressibleFluid module on a single region.
OpenFOAM 11 includes the following highlights.