OpenFOAM: Open source CFD in research and industry
By Hrvoje Jasak. 2009
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ABSTRACT The current focus of development in industrial Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is integration of CFD into Computer-Aided product development, geometrical optimisation, robust design and similar. On the other hand, in CFD research aims to extend the boundaries ofpractical engineering use in “non-traditional ” areas. Requirements of computational flexibility and code integration are contradictory: a change of coding paradigm, with object orientation, library components, equation mimicking is proposed as a way forward. This paper describes OpenFOAM, a C++ object oriented library for Computational Continuum Mechanics (CCM) developed by the author. Efficient and flexible implementation of complex physical models is achieved by mimicking the form ofpartial differential equation in software, with code functionality provided in library form. Open Source deployment and development model allows the user to achieve desired versatility in physical modeling without the sacrifice of complex geometry support and execution efficiency.
Subfields: Computational Mechanics
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In Computational Mechanics
Citations in the corpus
- Evaluating the performance of the two-phase flow solver interFoam (2012, methodology): “The first implementation of this VoF solver was done by Ubbink [18] in the framework of FOAM [19].”
- Finite basis physics-informed neural networks (FBPINNs): a scalable domain decomposition approach for solving differential equations (2021, background): “Thirdly, implementations of classical approaches are often elaborate and can require millions of lines of code, making them challenging to maintain from generation to generation [Jasak, 2009].”