[wyldckat]

blueCFD®-Core is an open source project provided by blueCAPE Lda, which started in 2009. On March 2016 we made our port of OpenFOAM 2.3.x available for free on our website. And as of the 4th of August 2016, we have taken the next step, namely to release blueCFD-Core as an open source project.

This project provides source code and high quality builds of OpenFOAM® technology and related open source projects, as unofficial ports for up-to-date 64 bit Windows 7 to 10. Additional tweaks, executables and scripts are also provided, in order to maintain usability when working within Microsoft Windows Operating Systems.

Contributions and collaborations are very welcome and developments will be kept open and public. For a full Mission Statement, Vision and History of this project, please visit the About page we have placed there.

Latest News:

• On the 4th of August 2016, we published the project and the source code in git form for OpenFOAM 4.x.
  • More details provided here: http://bluecfd.github.io/Core/2016/0...going-release/
• On the 11th of August 2016, we have released the first installer for the new project: blueCFD-Core 2016-1, which provides MSys2, OpenFOAM 4.x and ParaView 5.1.2, all 64-bit, compatible with Windows 7 through 10.
  • More details provided here: http://bluecfd.github.io/Core/2016/0...-openfoam-4.x/

Disclaimers:

• blueCAPE is responsible for the development and maintenance of the blueCFD®-Core project.
• blueCFD® is a registered trade mark of blueCAPE Lda.
• This offering is not approved or endorsed by OpenCFD Limited, producer and distributor of the OpenFOAM software and owner of the OPENFOAM® and OpenCFD® trade marks.
• blueCAPE Lda is a contributor to the OpenFOAM Foundation, but the majority of the specific modifications needed in the source code for running OpenFOAM natively on Windows, will not be accepted in the official releases of OpenFOAM by the OpenFOAM Foundation, mostly due to the maintenance overhead associated to supporting closed-source operating systems.

[wyldckat]

Just a quick announcement: We at FSD blueCAPE Lda have released today blueCFD-Core 2016-2.

• For more details, see the detailed announcement page: http://bluecfd.github.io/Core/2017/0...-openfoam-4.x/

In a nutshell, this is a minor release that provides the latest updates from OpenFOAM 4.x, along with several bug fixes and documentation for the blueCFD-Core 2016 version.

The development for blueCFD-Core 2017-1 and our port of OpenFOAM 5 will be done as soon as possible.

[dneves]

Greattings,

Recently I installed blueCFD-Core 2016-2 on my PC and I am interested in using the OLAFOAM solver but I need to make some adjustments in order to compile it on Windows.

I know that you did it for IHFOAM some years ago.

OLAFOAM solver: https://github.com/phicau/OLAFOAM

Do you know the best way to do it?

Best regards,

Diogo Neves

[wyldckat]

Greetings Diogo,

If you can open an issue for this on our Issue tracker: https://github.com/blueCFD/Core/issues - we will more easily keep this on our to-do list and take care of forking the OLAFOAM project and adapting it to build with blueCFD-Core 2016.

We have scripts in internal development that automatically do the adaptation to the renamed files, but it's still a work in progress, which is why we haven't made it public yet.

Best regards,
Bruno