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OpenFOAM v10 Released - See Full Announcement

The OpenFOAM Foundation is pleased to announce the release of version 10 of the OpenFOAM open source CFD toolbox. Version 10 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 10 includes the following key developments.

• Multiphase: added models and improved performance / robustness of multiphase solvers.
• Transport: properties consolidated into a single physicalProperties file.
• Thermophysical: improved handling of conductivity and added documentation.
• Heat transfer: improved thermal coupling in conjugate heat transfer.
• Particle tracking: can now be plugged into any solver using the clouds fvModel.
• Reactions: chemistry now solve for mass fractions to account for thermal expansion.
• Parallelisation: new framework for load-balancing, decomposition and redistribution.
• Mesh: general improvements to snappyHexMesh, blockMesh and other tools
• Dynamic Mesh: non-conformal coupling (NCC) for rotating geometry, to replace AMI.
• Dynamic Re-meshing: mesh-to-mesh mapping for mesh motion including engines.
• Function Objects: more efficient output for sampling, and new field calculations.
• Models and Constraints: now work for moving mesh cases and with function objects.
• Boundary Conditions: new general conditions of pressure, velocity and temperature.
• Case Configuration: created userTime to provide a customised measure of time.
• Computation: improvements to distance-to-wall calculations, time handling and I/O.
• Approximately 635 code commits, 161 resolved issues.
• ISO/IEC 14882:2011 (C++14): tested for GCC v5.4+, Clang v10+ (v4+ should also work).

OpenFOAM 10 is packaged for the following platforms, with ParaView 5.6 including Mesa with LLVM/Gallium acceleration for systems without a (supported) graphics card:

• Ubuntu Linux: packaged installation for Ubuntu 18.04 20.04 and 22.04;
• 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 10 Source Pack can be compiled on suitable Linux platforms.

Credits

OpenFOAM 10 was produced by:

• Maintainers (CFD Direct): Henry Weller (co-founder & lead developer); Chris Greenshields (co-founder), Will Bainbridge.
• Developers: Fabian Schlegel, Ronald Lehnigk, Juho Peltola, Timo Niemi.
• Patch Contributors: Kaspar Gram Bilde.

Licence

OpenFOAM 10 is distributed under the General Public Licence v3 by the OpenFOAM Foundation.