OpenFOAM training workshop

Prerequisites

Before attending this workshop, please make sure that you have access to PDC cluster.

Table of contents

• What is OpenFOAM ?
• General Information
• Case: Lid-driven cavity flow
• MotorBike Case

Reference

• Quick Reference
• Instructor’s guide

Who is the course for?

This course is for students, researchers, engineers and programmers who would like to get started with OpenFOAM using a HPC resource. Basic knowledge of using Linux will be required. Participants are expected to know basic numerical analysis and have CFD theoretical background.

Schedule

Day 1
9:00 - 9:15	Welcome and introduction to the training course
9:15 - 10:00	Introduction to PDC and the HPC system (Slides)
10:00 - 10:15	Break
10:15 - 11:00	Introduction to the finite volume (FV) method (Slides)
11:00 - 11:15	Break
11:15 - 12:00	Workflow overview for OpenFOAM (Slides)
12:00 - 13:00	Lunch break
13:00 - 15:00	Hands-on session

Day 2
9:15 - 10:00	Function objects (Slides)
10:00 - 10:15	Break
10:15 - 11:00	Mesh generation and parallelization (Slides)
11:00 - 11:15	Break
11:15 - 12:00	Case study (motorbike) with parallel simulations
12:00 - 13:00	Lunch break
13:00 - 15:00	Hands-on session

About the course

See also

There are many excellent resources online for learning OpenFOAM. To name only few:

• Official OpenFOAM Tutorial Guide

• Chalmers University of Technology CFD with OpenSource Software

Credits

The lesson file structure and browsing layout is inspired by and derived from work by CodeRefinery licensed under the MIT license. We have copied and adapted most of their license text.

Several examples and exercises in this lesson have been adapted from the following sources:

• OpenFOAM®: Open source CFD: Documentation

• OpenFOAM Wiki

• OpenFOAM Tutorial Guide

Notice that This offering is not approved or endorsed by OpenCFD Limited, producer and distributor of the OpenFOAM software via www.openfoam.com, and owner of the OPENFOAM® and OpenCFD® trade marks, more details see OpenCFD Limited Trade Mark Policy.

Instructional Material

This lesson material has been developed by Arash Alizad Banaei (PDC, KTH), Timofey Mukha (KTH Mech), and Jing Gong (ENCCS)

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