Finite-volume CFD for incompressible, compressible, multiphase, and conjugate heat-transfer flows, submitted as Slurm batch jobs and decomposed with MPI across your WECORE cluster.
OpenFOAM is a finite-volume toolbox for computational fluid dynamics, developed in the open and used across academia and industry.
Rather than one solver, it ships a family of them. simpleFoam and pimpleFoam cover incompressible flow, and rhoCentralFoam and its relatives handle compressible regimes. interFoam solves free-surface and multiphase problems, and chtMultiRegionFoam takes over where fluid and solid regions exchange heat.
External and internal flows over vehicles, through ducts, and in rotating machinery, with simpleFoam and pimpleFoam covering the incompressible regimes.
Heat exchangers, mixing vessels, and conjugate heat transfer in electronics enclosures, where chtMultiRegionFoam couples fluid and solid regions.
Marine hydrodynamics and other free-surface problems, solved with interFoam and the multiphase solver family.
Because the source is open, OpenFOAM is the usual starting point when a group needs its own solver, boundary condition, or transport model rather than a black box.
Cases are submitted as Slurm batch jobs and decomposed across nodes with MPI, so a mesh that will not fit or finish on a workstation runs across the cluster instead.
A browser session for case setup and for inspecting residuals, with no local X server required.
