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19th December 2011

Download v2.1.0 | Fedora

Fedora Versions

OpenFOAM and Paraview are currently available for Fedora 15 (Lovelock) and Fedora 16 (Verne).

Installation

We have generated RPM packs of OpenFOAM, scotch/ptscotch and Paraview for Fedora. The packs are dependent on other software, available as standard RPM packs for Fedora. Before installing OpenFOAM, please ensure that your Fedora installation includes all the software in the Development Tools group, which can be installed with yum by executing the following at a terminal prompt:

sudo yum groupinstall 'Development Tools'

OpenFOAM and Paraview also require the following packages to be installed. Execute the following at a terminal prompt.

sudo yum install openmpi openmpi-devel qt-devel qt-webkit-devel

Now install OpenFOAM by executing one of the following set of commands. For Fedora 16, replace ‘15’ with ‘16’ in the following texts.
EITHER, download and install Scotch, Paraview and OpenFOAM for 32 bit

sudo rpm -i https://www.openfoam.org/download/fedora/15/i386/OpenFOAM-scotch-5.1.12-1.i686.rpm
sudo rpm -i https://www.openfoam.org/download/fedora/15/i386/OpenFOAM-ParaView-3.12.0-1.i686.rpm
sudo rpm -i https://www.openfoam.org/download/fedora/15/i386/OpenFOAM-2.1.0-1.i686.rpm

OR, download and install Scotch, Paraview and OpenFOAM for 64 bit.

sudo rpm -i https://www.openfoam.org/download/fedora/15/x86_64/OpenFOAM-scotch-5.1.12-1.x86_64.rpm
sudo rpm -i https://www.openfoam.org/download/fedora/15/x86_64/OpenFOAM-ParaView-3.12.0-1.x86_64.rpm
sudo rpm -i https://www.openfoam.org/download/fedora/15/x86_64/OpenFOAM-2.1.0-1.x86_64.rpm

OpenFOAM-2.1.0 and Paraview-3.12.0 are now installed in the /opt directory.

User Configuration

In order to use the installed OpenFOAM package, complete the following

  1. he OpenFOAM binaries were compiled with OpenMPI version 1.5. Check that an OpenMPI module is available by typing in a terminal window
    module available

    This will return a list of modules that must include openmpi, e.g. openmpi-x86_64 for a 64 bit system.

  2. Open the .bashrc file in the user’s home directory in an editor, e.g. by typing in a terminal window (note the dot)
    gedit ~/.bashrc
  3. At the bottom of that file, add the following line (see Note 1),where the first line specifies the name of the openmpi module from step 1. Save the file
    module load openmpi-x86_64 
source /opt/OpenFOAM-2.1.0/etc/bashrc
  4. Open a new terminal window (see Note 2) and test that the simpleFoam application, from the OpenFOAM package, is working by typing
    simpleFoam -help
  5. A “Usage” message should appear. Your installation and user configuration is complete.

Note 1: If a similar line has already been added to the user’s .bashrc file, e.g. for a previous version of OpenFOAM, then the line should be deleted or, alternatively, commented out by inserting a # at the beginning of the line.
Note 2: If a user wishes to execute simpleFoam in the same terminal window, they must first register the change to the .bashrc file by typing at the terminal prompt (note the dots): source $HOME/.bashrc

Getting Started

Create a project directory within the $HOME/OpenFOAM directory named <USER>-2.1.0 (e.g. chris-2.1.0 for user chris and OpenFOAM version 2.1.0) and create a directory named run within it, e.g. by typing:

mkdir -p $FOAM_RUN

Copy across the backward facing step example, generate the mesh with blockMesh and run the steady flow, incompressible solver simpleFoam

cd $FOAM_RUN
cp -r $FOAM_TUTORIALS/incompressible/simpleFoam/pitzDaily .
cd pitzDaily
blockMesh
simpleFoam
paraFoam

Refer to the OpenFOAM User Guide to get started.

Reporting Bugs in OpenFOAM

We appreciate that bugs in OpenFOAM are reported so we can fix them. Please refer to the OpenFOAM bugs pages to report bugs.