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OpenFOAM is a general purpose open-source CFD code. OpenFOAM is written in C++ and uses an object oriented approach which makes it easy to extend. The package includes modules for a wide range of applications. FOAM was written by Henry Weller and others at Imperial College. For a few years FOAM was sold as a commercial code by the company Nabla Ltd. However, in 2004 FOAM was released under GPL and was renamed to OpenFOAM. The development of OpenFOAM is currently coordinated by OpenCFD Ltd. OpenFOAM is a very capable code which you definitely should check out if you are looking for a state-of-the-art CFD code with source-code access.
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OpenFOAM is a general purpose open-source CFD code. OpenFOAM is written in C++ and uses an object oriented approach which makes it easy to extend. The package includes modules for a wide range of applications.  
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The numerics implemented in OpenFOAM uses the Finite Volume Method on unstructured meshes. OpenFOAM provides many capabilities, including free-surface and multi-phase flow modelling, lagrangian spray model and automatic mesh motion.
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FOAM was written by Henry Weller and others at Imperial College. For a few years FOAM was sold as a commercial code by the company Nabla Ltd. However, in 2004 FOAM was released under GPL and was renamed to OpenFOAM. OpenFOAM is currently distributed by OpenCFD Ltd.  
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OpenFOAM is a very capable code which you definitely should check out if you are looking for a state-of-the-art CFD code with source-code access. The numerics implemented in OpenFOAM uses the Finite Volume Method on unstructured meshes. OpenFOAM provides many capabilities, including free-surface and multi-phase flow modelling, lagrangian spray model and automatic mesh motion.
== External Links ==
== External Links ==
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*[http://www.openfoam.org OpenFOAM Home Page]
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* [http://www.openfoam.org OpenFOAM Foundation Home Page]
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** [http://www.openfoam.com OpenFOAM Home Page] - commercial side by OpenCFD Ltd
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** [http://www.opencfd.co.uk/ OpenCFD Ltd] - automatically redirects to [http://www.openfoam.com www.openfoam.com]
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*[http://openfoam.cfd-online.com/forum OpenFOAM Discussion Forum]
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* [http://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/openfoam/ OpenFOAM Discussion Forum]
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*[http://www.cdlact.unileoben.ac.at/non_cdl/OpenFOAMWiki/index.php OpenFOAM Wiki]
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* [http://openfoamwiki.net (unofficial) OpenFOAM Wiki]
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*[http://www.opencfd.co.uk/ OpenCFD Ltd]
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* [http://web.archive.org/web/20130621230342/http://www.foamcfd.org/ www.foamcfd.org - FOAM CFD] - website no longer operational, was acting as an historic reference. The current link is pointing to a snapshot in the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.
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** [http://web.archive.org/web/20150107024926/http://www.foamcfd.org/Nabla/ www.foamcfd.org/Nabla/ - Nabla Ltd. Home Page] - backup of the old nabla.co.uk, kept as an historic reference at foamcfd.org, but the link is now pointing to a snapshot in the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.
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*[http://www.foamcfd.org FOAM CFD]
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* [http://web.archive.org/web/20041209084008/http://www.nabla.co.uk/ www.nabla.co.uk - 9th of December 2004] - last website snapshot of the old nabla.co.uk website, before OpenFOAM was released.
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* [http://wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenFOAM OpenFOAM on Wikipedia]

Latest revision as of 08:58, 26 February 2019

OpenFOAM is a general purpose open-source CFD code. OpenFOAM is written in C++ and uses an object oriented approach which makes it easy to extend. The package includes modules for a wide range of applications.

FOAM was written by Henry Weller and others at Imperial College. For a few years FOAM was sold as a commercial code by the company Nabla Ltd. However, in 2004 FOAM was released under GPL and was renamed to OpenFOAM. OpenFOAM is currently distributed by OpenCFD Ltd.

OpenFOAM is a very capable code which you definitely should check out if you are looking for a state-of-the-art CFD code with source-code access. The numerics implemented in OpenFOAM uses the Finite Volume Method on unstructured meshes. OpenFOAM provides many capabilities, including free-surface and multi-phase flow modelling, lagrangian spray model and automatic mesh motion.

External Links

  • www.foamcfd.org - FOAM CFD - website no longer operational, was acting as an historic reference. The current link is pointing to a snapshot in the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.
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