The OpenFOAM Foundation
OpenFOAM is one of the leading software applications for computational fluid dynamics . It is licensed free and open source only under the GNU General Public Licence version 3 (the “GPL”) by the OpenFOAM Foundation, the copyright holder of the software. One reason for OpenFOAM’s popularity is that its users are granted the freedom to […]
OpenFOAM 4.1 for 64 bit distributions of Linux including Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) v7+, CentOS v7+, Fedora v22+, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) v12+, openSuSE v13+ and Debian 8+. Uses Docker to provide a self-contained environment that includes code, runtime, system tools and libraries, independent of the underlying operating system.
OpenFOAM is written for the UNIX and GNU/Linux operating systems. One option for installing OpenFOAM on Windows is through a a virtual machine (or hypervisor) such as VirtualBox which supports all versions of Windows. Below are some instructions for installing OpenFOAM on a VirtualBox. Installing OpenFOAM on a Virtual Machine Users can install a virtual […]
The packaged versions of OpenFOAM for Ubuntu can be simply installed on Windows using the Windows Subsystem for 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.
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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 option. OpenFOAM can be compiled […]
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 be required on a remote […]
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 GCAL under the name libboost_thread-mt.so, […]