Programming archive

One of the most relevant capabilities of OpenFOAM the possibility of creating new solvers and features, required for specific needs, which are done with Programming. You can find below a list of tutorials that covers Programming in OpenFOAM.

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Programming

Complete Programming Courses

• Hoste and Jasak video series on programming.
• Tips by Gerhard Holzinger Source Code and Programming (Chapter IX).

C++

Intro: Compilation and Testing

• Lee's compact introduction to compilation using existing code.

Implementation of Initial and Boundary Conditions

• This tutorial by Gavin Tabor covers the implementation of custom boundary conditions.

Customizing solvers

• Gavin Tabor describes in this tutorial how to customize solver and implement a new constitutive model.
• Isabelle Choquet and Håkan Nilsson teaches how to implement new thermophysical model and additional transport equation.

Debugging