ESI OpenCFD Ltd. is pleased to announce the release of OpenFOAM-v2006.

The version released in July 2020 brings a lot of exciting new functionality and extension to the existing ones. Let us, among others, highlight a few:

• blockMesh improvement - faster topological merge
• New expression version of Function1 and coded PatchFunction1 for time-dependent BCs
• Improved Arbitrary Mesh Interface (AMI)
• New OpenQBMM community module
• New and improved adjoint optimisation tools (e.g. for aeroacoustics applications)
• New Weber number cloud function object
• Improved multiphase phase change modelling
• New pipelined Conjugate Gradient solvers
• New suite of atmospheric boundary layer tools
• New momentum error function object
• New Dynamic Mode Decomposition (DMD) tools

and much more!

You can download OpenFOAM as source code, or precompiled packages for:

• Windows (docker or cross-compiled native installation or WLS tarball)
• Linux and Mac docker images

For more information, visit

https://OpenFOAM.com/releases/OpenFOAM-v2006

For your information, for the following initiation by by these people:

New Open-access OpenFOAM Journal

ESI OpenCFD Ltd. is pleased to announce the release of OpenFOAM v1912.

This December marks the 15 year anniversary since OpenCFD first brought
you OpenFOAM, free and open source.

This December's release includes significant new functionality, including:
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• new adjoint-based automated shape optimisation tools
• new interface-tracking dynamic meshes
• new turbulence stabilisation for incompressible multiphase systems
• new expressions engine that offers greater control and flexibility
  over your case set-ups
• new collimated radiaion modelling
• new k-epsilon-phit-f RANS tubulence model closure
• new binary file compatibility
• new weighted flux differencing scheme
• and much more!

For more information, visit

OpenFOAM.com/releases/OpenFOAM-v1912

OpenCFD is pleased to announce the release of OpenFOAM-v1906.

This release extends OpenFOAM-v1812 features across many areas of the code. The new functionality represents development sponsored by OpenCFDs customers, internally funded developments, and the integration of features and changes from the OpenFOAM community.


Among other developments it features:
- New adjoint shape optimisation capabilities,
- dry-run option for SnappyHexMesh,
- new relaxed patch regioning in SnappyHexMesh,
- new mixed-precision single/double precision running,
- new overset-enabled buoyant solver,
- new synthetic turbulence generation method for LES/DES



... and many other developments or improvements from OpenFOAM team or contributors.


The detailed list can be found at: http://openfoam.com/releases/openfoam-v1906/


OpenFOAM-v1906 can be downloaded as:

- source code
- precompiled Docker images for Linux, Windows and Mac operating systems
- MS windows cross-compiled native executable distribution
- available also in the spack HPC package manager via the 'openfoam-com' package.

Details can be found on http://openfoam.com/download/installation.php

OpenFOAM v8 Released - See Full Announcement

The OpenFOAM Foundation is pleased to announce the release of version 8 of the OpenFOAM open source CFD toolbox. Version 8 is a snapshot of the OpenFOAM development version which, through sustainable development, is always-releasable. It provides new functionality and major improvements to existing code, with strict demands on usability, robustness and extensibility.

OpenFOAM 8 includes the following key developments.

• Multiphase: selectable interpolation for interface-capturing, PLIC scheme.
• Reacting multiphase: consolidated multiphaseEulerFoam solver and model development.
• Transport: new MomentumTransportModels and ThermophysicalTransportModels libraries.
• Thermophysical: thermodynamics and equation of state models, data input, refactoring.
• Surface Film: huge performance improvements and better surface handling.
• Heat transfer: better numerics and case setup, new thermal comfort modelling.
• Particle tracking: renamed uncoupled solvers, improved tracking efficiency, injection.
• Other models: transient/steady-state solvers, boundary conditions, reactions.
• Mesh: improved snappyHexMesh and blockMesh, face centre calculation, cyclic patches.
• Function Objects: improved visualization/field, residence time and configuration.
• Case Configuration: new configuration/initialisation tools, coded Function1.
• Computation: better data I/O, field caching, support for Arm processors.
• Approximately 710 code commits, 200+ resolved issues
• ISO/IEC 14882:2011 (C++11): tested for GCC v5.4+, Clang v3.8+, Intel ICC v18.0+.

OpenFOAM 8 is packaged for the following platforms, with ParaView 5.6.0 including Mesa with LLVM/Gallium acceleration for systems without a (supported) graphics card:

• Ubuntu Linux: packaged installation for Ubuntu 16.04, 18.04 and 20.04;
• Other Linux: installation with a Docker container; or compilation from source code;
• Windows 10: installation using Windows Subsystem for Linux with Ubuntu packs;
• macOS: installation with a Docker container.

The OpenFOAM 8 Source Pack can be compiled on suitable Linux platforms.

Credits

OpenFOAM 8 was produced by:

• Core Team (CFD Direct): Henry Weller (co-founder & lead developer); Chris Greenshields (co-founder), Will Bainbridge, Jakub Kníř
• Developers/Maintainers: Juho Peltola, Timo Niemi, Fabian Schlegel, Ronald Oertel
• Patch Contributors: Tobias Holzmann, SeongMo Yeon, Mattijs Janssens, Francesco Contino, Bruno Santos, Gerhard Holzinger, Kevin Nordin-Bates, Alberto Passalacqua

Licence

OpenFOAM 8 is distributed under the General Public Licence v3 by the OpenFOAM Foundation.

OpenFOAM with Salome introductory Online training


This course prepares the participants to conduct CFD simulation , CAD → Meshing → Simulations → Post-processing, using the OpenFOAM® and salome.

This training session will take place during the months of November-December 2020.


OpenFOAM® version: the course is based on OpenFOAM® version 2.01. SALOME With Version 7.7.7. User may use higher version

Teaching method: lecture will be conducted using zoom platform 1 hr per day( 4 days per week). 2 hrs per day on Sunday.

Trainer: Dr Sachin Borse has conducted many trainings on openFoam
Training material: few materials like ppt will be provided.


duration of training:- 25 hrs
Internship:- 2 Projects (as per trainer) to Write Paper In Journal. To be Finished within 3 Months
Fees : INR 16000 for Participant from India. USD 400 for participant from other countries.
Contact Details :-
sachinlb@yahoo.co.uk
WHATSAPP :- +918149538399

Dear all,

I would like to make you aware of two OpenFoam workshops at TU Delft organised by DCSE on 25th November :
In the morning, presentations by and for PhD students and young researchers.
In the afternoon, presentations from academia and industry for a greater audience.


The preliminary program of the morning session is:

10:10 - 10:40 Süleyman Karaca (TU Eindhoven), Modelling Reactive Flows with the Flamelet Generated Manifold (FGM)

10:40 - 11:10 Dario Balice (TU Eindhoven), Modelling of Fluidizer Bed Permeability

11:30 - 12:00 Jigar Parekh (University of Groningen), Quantification and Propagation of Model Output form Uncertainties in RANS using Polynomial Chaos

12:00 - 12:30 Håkan Nilsson, Chalmers University of Technology, t.b.a.

Hello FOAMers,

It has been decided that the 16th OpenFOAM Workshop will be held fully online from Tuesday 8th June to Friday 11th June 2021.

Abstract submission and registration are now open at http://openfoamworkshop.org.

We hope to (virtually) see you all there,
The OpenFOAM Workshop Committee

Sign up to the OpenFOAM Workshop mailing list to keep up-to-date: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!fo...p-mailing-list

Hello everyone,
I successfully defended my PhD thesis last year and it has been published in the beginning of this year.
It was just recently that I looked back at the amount of help and information I received from the cfd-online community.
I would therefore like to share the link to my thesis here in the hope that it might help someone with their research.

You can find the online version under the following doi: https://doi.org/10.14279/depositonce-9576.

Topics include:
- hydrodynamic multiphase (water/air) simulations using interFoam
- transport and mass transfer simulations
- solver customisations for a mass transfer solver to account for the specifics of H2S (hydrogen sulphide) mass transfer

I hope this material is useful to you and I am open to suggestions or questions about the topics presented in the thesis.

Thanks for all the help and the amount of information available in this community.
Best wishes
Katharina Teuber

Online OpenFOAM introductory training


This course prepares the attendees to conduct end-to-end CFD studies, that is, CAD → Meshing → Simulations → Post-processing, using the OpenFOAM®.

This course is offered in cooperation with the University of Genova and Wolfdynamics (http://www.wolfdynamics.com). The course extends for five weeks (asynchronous learning).

This training session will take place during the months of October-November 2020.

More information at this link:
https://bit.ly/2QaAQPT


OpenFOAM® version: the course is based on OpenFOAM® version 8.

Teaching method: all the lectures have been pre-recorded so that the participants can follow the course at their own pace. However, we strongly recommend dedicating at least five hours a week (that is less than an hour a day) to cover each week's topics and follow the guided tutorials. The participants will have access to a dedicated forum where they can post questions or interact with other users. We will meet once a week for questions and answers (Q&A).

Q&A meeting times: we will meet online every Friday for Q&A (16OCT, 23OCT, 30OCT, 6NOV, 13NOV). To maximize users participation in different time-zones, the meetings will start at 3:00 pm CET and will end at 6:00 pm CET.

Training material: every participant will have access to the lecture notes (in pdf format) and all the supporting material (tutorials and videos).

Fees: in light of the current developments due to the COVID19 pandemic, we have decided to offer a special price to all participants, 200 Euros + VAT.

Grants: we are also offering two grants to follow the training for free (reserved to undergraduate and graduate students). If you are interested, send an email to guerrero@wolfdynamics.com.



Hurry up and get your seat now!

wyldckat, aka Bruno Santos, has decided to hang-up his gloves and reduce his volunteer time supporting the OpenFOAM community. For many years Bruno has spent a lot of time to support users and share his knowledge, always without any thought of himself and always with a very friendly tone.

With more than 10,000 forum posts and the highest reputation of all forum users on CFD Online Bruno is without competition the person who has spent most time to support OpenFOAM users on CFD Online and share his knowledge. We are many who will miss Bruno. We at CFD Online will most certainly miss Bruno. He has been the main administrator for the OpenFOAM forums for a long time, handling both support and more administrative tasks like removing spam.

Please join me in thanking Bruno for all the free help he has given to so many users over so many years!! THANK YOU!! We owe you.

Good luck in the future Bruno! If you ever need a favor back please do not hesitate to ask. You have a large group of friends here.

Best wishes,

Jonas

'''rhoSimpleFoam'''

rhoSimpleFoam is a steady-state solver for compressible, turbulent flow, using the SIMPLE (Semi-Implicit Method for Pressure Linked Equations) algorithm.
In the newer releases it also includes an option to use the SIMPLEC (Semi-Implicit Method for Pressure Linked Equations Consistent) algorithm.
It is a pressure based compressible solver. That means that a pressure equation is solved and the density is related to the pressure via an equation of state.


==Solution Strategy==