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What is OpenFOAM?

  • OpenFOAM is a great project!
  • OpenFOAM supports a collaborative environment. Everybody is invited.
  • OpenFOAM gives a perpetual value to its users.
  • OpenFOAM stands for Open Source Field Operation and Manipulation.
  • OpenFOAM is the world leading open-source tool for Computational Fluid Dynamics.
  • OpenFOAM is designed as an easily extensible package of tools for numerical simulations (mainly CFD).
  • OpenFOAM is based on the Finite Volume Method, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite_volume_method.
  • The code is distributed under GNU General Public License
    http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html.
  • OpenFOAM has a large user base across most areas of engineering and science, from both commercial and academic organizations.
  • OpenFOAM has an extensive range of features to solve anything from complex fluid flows involving chemical reactions, turbulence and heat transfer, to solid dynamics and electro-magnetics.
  • OpenFOAM is a free, open source CFD software package developed by:
    • CFD Direct is the primary developer of OpenFOAM, on behalf of the OpenFOAM Foundation, the copyright holder and licensor of OpenFOAM
      http://www.openfoam.org
    • OpenCFD Ltd, owner of the OpenFOAM Trademark, owned by ESI Group
      http://www.openfoam.com
  • Last, but not least: OpenFOAM gives you a choice. In which way you invest in your CFD. Time, or Money?

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