OpenFOAM
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OpenFOAM®, an open source CFD toolbox, is now available on ManufacturingHUB.org and can be accessed through the Workspace.
Coming soon – simplified, graphical, interactive users interfaces to application-specific capabilities of OpenFOAM.
The first problem of interest is fluid flow through a manifold to nozzles.
Status of Work
June 22, 2011: A “draft” interactive, graphical user interface that implements the manifold problem workflow and drives OpenFOAM is available as the new tool, Slotjet, and is open to developers at Purdue and Proctor & Gamble for testing. OpenFOAM output is returned in textual form for now.
June 1, 2011: Proctor & Gamble’s Tom Lange and Matt Macura visit the ManufacturingHUB team at Purdue and define the workflow for the fluid flow in a manifold problem.
May 5, 2011: OpenFOAM data visualization installed with ParaView 3.8.0.
May 5, 2011: OpenFOAM 1.7.1 is running in a Linux workspace on the ManufacturingHUB.org computational backend.
Run the OpenFOAM installation test
The simple installation test is
$ mkdir -p ${FOAM_RUN}
$ cp -r ${FOAM_TUTORIALS} ${FOAM_RUN}
$ cd ${FOAM_RUN}/tutorials/incompressible/icoFoam/cavity
$ blockMesh
$ icoFoam
$ paraFoam
OpenFOAM® is a free, open source software package for computational fluid dynamics (CFD).
More information on OpenFOAM can be found at:
