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NOTE: For building your own ParaView see Building ParaView 3.10.1 with custom Qt 4.6.4
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After limited success with the old instructions "Using the official pre-built ParaView 3.8.0 version with OpenFOAM...", I've decided to write a new blog post, instead of editing the old one. Hopefully these instructions no longer will have the...

First I would like to say that both flow solvers tend to provide the similar results if the mesh is of good quality and has appropriate no.of nodes and yplus values.

Therfore the first and the most important rule is to make, in any simulation of turbo machinery in particular and external flows in general, high quality mesh with all appropriate parameters e.g. yplus.

Now lets come to the difference

1. CFX has good turbulence models, although after merger...

For now, these are only instructions for Ubuntu (11.04 to be exact, but they should work for 10.04 and above), and it shouldn't be all that different for OpenSuSE.

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Note: I've discovered the other day, thanks to a fellow user of this forum, that Doxygen 1.7.1 on Ubuntu 10.10 does not build the code documentation for OpenFOAM 2.0. Nonetheless, a solution is already known (two actually) and is shown here: http://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/ope...tml#post317304...

I find it interesting the number of posts I've already made on the cfd-online.com/Forums. So I'll start keeping track of the interesting numbers here on this blog post

My post #1000: http://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/ope...tml#post301586

My post #1234: http://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/ope...tml#post317074

My post #1350: http://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/ope...tml#post322771...

Finally finished writing a better page than this one at openfoamwiki.net: http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/In...with_the_Shell

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This blog post envisions to explain the advanced usages of OpenFOAM's shell environment. For now, only the most common ideas will be explained here, but the idea is to expand it to a size worthy for then moving to openfoamwiki.net.

1. New to Linux? Then Google "Linux tutorial" Although,

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