OpenFOAM is a free, open source CFD software packaage.
This entry provides basic information on how to run OpenFOAM from Open CFD.NB OpenFOAM is still in testing, and this guide is very liable to change.
Archived project! Repository and other project resources are read only. UPDATE: I HAVE AN UPDATED VIDEO FOR 2020:OCTOBER 17TH 2017 THE FALL CREATORS UPDATE (Version 1709, BUILD 16299). OpenFOAM-dev is the development line of OpenFOAM. It is packaged weekly for Ubuntu, which can be installed directly on Windows 10 and is incorporated into Docker builds for other Linux distributions. Enter the password that accompanies your e-mail. © 2021 OpenCFD Legal Terms & ConditionsLegal Terms & Conditions.
General OpenFOAM documentation¶
OpenFOAM is complex, and you should start by reading the official documentation at http://www.openfoam.org/docs/user
Setting up the environment¶
You can set up the environment variables necessary to run both OpenFOAM version 2.3.0 and ParaView version 4.1.0 by loading the openfoam environment module.
This module also sets up environment variables that define default locations for your OpenFOAM cases and binaries.
The ~ means your login directory.
The first time you use OpenFOAM, you should create these directories with the commands below and use them for your OpenFoam cases.
Getting Started¶
Create the project directories above.
Copy the tutorial examples directory in the OpenFOAM distribution to the run directory.
Run the first example case of incompressible laminar flow in a cavity:
Now refer to the OpenFOAM User Guide to get more information!
Launching on the login node¶
Visualisation of OpenFOAM results can be done using paraFoam at the command prompt; i.e.:
Warning
If you’re visualising large data sets this should NOT be done on the login nodes, since this can use a considerable amount of RAM and CPU. Instead, you should request an interactive job with UGE (SGE).
Using Univa Grid Engine¶
Univa Grid Engine (UGE) allows both interactive and batch jobs to be submitted, with exclusive access to the resources requested.
Running through an interactive shell¶
Cfd Modeling Software
To launch paraFoam interactively, displaying the full GUI:
In the above command, hh:mm:ss is the length of real-time the shell will exist for, -cwd- means use the current working directory and -V- exports the the current environment.e.g. to run paraFoam for 1 hour:
This will run paraFoam within the terminal from which it was launched. You will need to be in an appropriate directory for paraFoam to find the correct files.
Batch Execution¶
To run OpenFOAM in batch-mode you first need to setup your case.
A script must then be created that will request resources from the queuing system and launch the desired OpenFOAM executables
eg script runfoam.sh:
This can be submitted to the queuing system using:
Parallel Execution¶
Openfoam Gui
If you’ve configured your OpenFOAM job to be solved in parallel, you need to submit it differently. It uses its own private version of OpenMPI 1.6.5 so you don’t need to explicitly load an openmpi module. This is an example of a suitable submission script that reserves 2GB RAM per slot.
Openfoam Download
NB there is a space between ”.” and “/etc/profile.d/modules.sh” in the script below!
Openfoam Windows
create the script runfoam-mpi.sh