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anything from complex fluid flows involving chemical reactions, turbulence and heat transfer, to solid dynamics, electromagnetics and the pricing of financial options. WWW: http://www.opencfd.co.uk/openfoam/index.html PR: ports/91886 Submitted by: thierry
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The OpenFOAM (Open Field Operation and Manipulation) CFD Toolbox can simulate
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anything from complex fluid flows involving chemical reactions, turbulence and
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heat transfer, to solid dynamics, electromagnetics and the pricing of financial
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options.
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The core technology of OpenFOAM is a flexible set of efficient C++ modules.
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These are used to build a wealth of: solvers, to simulate specific problems in
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engineering mechanics; utilities, to perform pre- and post-processing tasks
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ranging from simple data manipulations to visualisation and mesh processing;
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libraries, to create toolboxes that are accessible to the solvers/utilities,
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such as libraries of physical models. It is supplied with numerous pre-
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configured solvers, utilities and libraries and so can be used like any typical
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simulation package. Its structure and hierarchical design are open, so that its
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solvers, utilities and libraries are fully extensible.
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OpenFOAM uses finite volume numerics to solve systems of partial differential
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equations ascribed on any 3D unstructured mesh of polyhedral cells. The fluid
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flow solvers are developed within a robust, implicit, pressure-velocity,
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iterative solution framework, although alternative techniques are applied to
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other continuum mechanics solvers. Domain decomposition parallelism is funda-
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mental to the design of OpenFOAM and integrated at a low level so that solvers
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can generally be developed without the need for any parallel-specific coding.
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WWW: http://www.opencfd.co.uk/openfoam/index.html
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