Tutorials

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.

"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 your 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

We understand, that there is a variety of users with different levels of experience. We try to provide material to as many users as possible. For this reason we organize the material into different tutorial 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.

"Collection by contributors"

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 - Universidade Federal do Pará, Brasil
• Isabelle Choquet - University West - Sweden
• L.L. Ferrás - University of Minho, Portugal
• C. Fernandes - University of Minho, Portugal
• Joel Guerrero - Universita degli Studi di Genova/Wolf Dynamics, Italy
• Bahram Haddadi - Technische Universität Wien, Austria
• Gerhard Holzinger - K1-MET GmbH, Austria
• Tobias Holzmann - Holzmann CFD, Austria
• Andras Horvath - Rheologic GmbH, Austria
• Kenneth Hoste - Ghent University, Belgium
• Hrvoje Jasak - Wikki Ltd, UK
• Christian Jordan - Technische Universität Wien, Austria
• Matvey Kraposhin - ISPRAS, Russia, Moscow
• Victoria Korchagova - ISPRAS, Russia, Moscow
• Robert Lee - Georgia Tech, USA
• Nelson Marques - blueCAPE Lda, Portugal
• József Nagy - Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
• Håkan Nilsson - Chalmers University, Sweden
• Miguel Nóbrega - University of Minho, Portugal
• Stefan Radl - Technische Universität Graz, Austria
• Henrik Rusche - Wikki GmbH, Germany
• Bruno Santos - blueCAPE Lda, Portugal
• Sergei Strijhak - ISPRAS, Russia, Moscow
• Gavin Tabor - University of Exeter, UK
• Alexander Vakhrushev - Montanuniversität Leoben, Austria

Committee Members of the Editorial Board

Here you will soon find the Committee Members of the Editorial Board.

Content on this Wiki is open to all for read access. The reason for that is, that we would like to avoid a collection of outdated materials and dead links. For that reason we initiated the Editorial Board. The responsibility of the Committee Members of the Editorial Board is

• to maintain the tutorial collection
• to guarantee the high quality of the tutorials
• to remind contributors about dead links and outdated material
• to review new submissions

If you are interested in contributing to the tutorial collection, found an error or a dead link, please contact the Wiki Editors.

How to contribute

If you are interested in contributing to the tutorial collection, here you can find the details on submitting new material.