Nabla Ltd are pleased to announce the release of version 2.2 of the FOAM (Field Operation and Manipulation) software package, available for: P4/Linux; Sun/Solaris; SGI/IRIX; SGI/IRIX64; SGI/Itanium/Linux64(ALTIX); HP/UX; IBM/AIX5. FOAM can simulate anything from complex fluid flows involving chemical reactions, turbulence and heat transfer, to solid dynamics, electromagnetics and the pricing of financial options.
The core technology of FOAM is a flexible set of efficient C++ modules. These are used to build an archive of: solvers, to simulate specific problems in engineering mechanics; utilities, to perform pre- and post-processing tasks ranging from simple data manipulations to visualisation and mesh processing; libraries, to create toolboxes that are accessible to the solvers/utilities, such as libraries of physical models. While FOAM can be used as a standard simulation package using the standard solvers, utilities and libraries, it offers much more. Since it is supplied a suite of C++ libraries, mostly with source code, users have total freedom to create or modify a solver, utility or library, either by themselves or with the help of Nabla consultants.
The latest version contains numerous new features including: extended combustion solvers with new parallelised spray tracking for moving meshes, new atomisation models and a complete reader for CHEMKIN thermodynamics and reaction scheme database files; an extremely robust and efficient interface tracking multiphase flow solver that can handle high surface tensions; dynamic mesh handling including sliding interfaces, attach/detach boundaries, layer addition/removal; an ordinary differential equation (ODE) solver library. e.g. for chemical reaction calculations; a finite element library and stress analysis solver; numerous utilities for mesh and field manipulation, including one for for mapping fields between cases, where the case geometries and boundary types do not need to coincide; numerous post-processing utilites; 100% more example cases.
For a full list of features, see: http://www.nabla.co.uk/webMain/software.html
For new features in version 2.2, see: http://www.nabla.co.uk/guides/foam21To22.html
