Tutorials

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"Why should I invest my time?"

Maybe at this point you ask yourself the question:

"Why should I invest my time into learning OpenFOAM?"

Well, there are lots of arguments, here are some of them:

  • OpenFOAM is one of the top 3 most used CFD software.
  • OpenFOAM is one of the top 5 most used software on HPC.
  • OpenFOAM is trusted by industry, R&D centers and universities.
  • OpenFOAM offers the opportunity of high parallelization.
  • OpenFOAM is open source - free of charge and with an open source code.
  • You can implement you own models, if you wish so.
  • There are thousands of users around the world for research and production engineering.
  • There is a lot of help from experienced users on the web.
  • There are local user meetings in several countries.
  • OpenFOAM is cool.

Tutorial series

Usually there is a huge learning curve, when one starts to learn OpenFOAM. An initiative was started in the OpenFOAM community to organize available teaching material into one collection. These are organized into several series.

"First glimpse" series

If you are someone, who wants to "check out" OpenFOAM, the following short introductory series is for you. You should be able to complete it within a couple of hours.

"3 weeks" series

In this series you will gather a more detailed knowledge of the basics of OpenFOAM. You should be able to complete the series within three weeks. This is perfect for PhD students or engineers, who want to do serious work in OpenFOAM.[1]

"Collections" series

In this series we collect all the material contributors submitted organized by the individual contributors. Here you can find all the submitted material.

Contributors

Up until now following persons contributed to the tutorial collection (alphabetically):

  • Manoel Silvino Araújo
  • L.L. Ferrás
  • C. Fernandes
  • Joel Guerrero
  • Bahram Haddadi
  • Gerhard Holzinger
  • Andras Horvath
  • Kenneth Hoste
  • Hrvoje Jasak
  • Christian Jordan
  • Matvey Kraposhin
  • Victoria Korchagova
  • Robert Lee
  • Nelson Marques
  • József Nagy
  • Håkan Nilsson
  • Miguel Nóbrega
  • Stefan Radl
  • Henrik Rusche
  • Sergei Strijhak
  • Bruno Santos
  • Gavin Tabor
  • Alexander Vakhrushev

Editorial board and committee members

How to contribute