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OpenFOAM Foundation Training
Participants undertake exercises in simulating cases and programming in OpenFOAM using ESI’s Cloud-based HPC computing platform, accessed via a secure ssh connection between desktop PCs (provided) or participants laptops, applicable to all operating systems. All work from the training will be stored on the cloud and participants may download all the work and exercises on their USB flesh drives at the end of the training.
Date: December 4, 2017 - December 5, 2017
Location: 655 Montgomery Street, 4th Floor, San Francisco, CA, United States
Web Page: http://www.openfoam.com/training/booking.php
Contact Email: lwb@esi-group.com
Organizer: Linda Weber
Type of Event: Workshop, Local
 
Description:

   Topics Covered:
 
    •The OpenFOAM software distribution
    •Background in the use of Linux/UNIX
    •Basic meshing
    •Field Initialization and boundary conditions
    •Selecting models and setting parameters
    •Solution monitoring and control
    •Mesh conversion (example from Ansys)
    •Boundary conditions
    •Reynolds-averaged simulation from turbulence
    •Post-processing tools and visualization
    •Mesh manipulation
    •Mapping fields
    •Running parallel
    •Creating animations
    •Introduction to C++ and its use in OpenFOAM
    •Code structure and compilation
    •Code walk through for a simple utility
    •The important classes in OpenFOAM
    •The finite volume method and PISO/SIMPLE/PIMPLE 
     algorithms
    •Programming OpenFOAM solvers
    •Introduction to programming boundary conditions
 
Event record first posted on August 16, 2017, last modified on August 19, 2017

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