OpenFOAM

v2212 Open source

CFD Ready to run

Finite-volume CFD for incompressible, compressible, and multiphase flows, plus heat transfer between fluids and solids, run with MPI across a managed cluster.

Batch execution MPI Managed simulation

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A managed scientific-software service for your organization

Provide research and engineering teams with approved applications and reproducible execution without asking them or your infrastructure team to maintain every software stack.

For organizations

Create one governed application service for laboratories, engineering groups, and teaching environments on infrastructure your organization controls.

What your users can do

Choose an available application, configure a simulation, submit and track the run, review logs and status, and retrieve the recorded results.

What your infrastructure team gets

Control approved applications and versions, licensing integration, access, resource quotas, execution policies, data location, and run history.

How WECORE deploys and operates it

We package and validate applications, deploy the service on your OpenStack infrastructure, integrate licenses where required, and provide ongoing operations.

Overview

Understanding OpenFOAM.

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.

Use cases

What people run it for.

Aerodynamics and turbomachinery

External and internal flows over vehicles, through ducts, and in rotating machinery, with simpleFoam and pimpleFoam covering the incompressible regimes.

Heat exchangers and thermal management

Heat exchangers, mixing vessels, and heat transfer between fluids and solids in electronics enclosures, where chtMultiRegionFoam couples the two regions.

Marine and multiphase flow

Marine hydrodynamics and other free-surface problems, solved with interFoam and the multiphase solver family.

Custom solvers and models

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.

Run modes

How the application runs in a managed environment.

Managed batch execution

Managed MPI execution

Cases are queued and decomposed across nodes with MPI, so a mesh that will not fit or finish on a workstation can run across the cluster instead.

Cluster only

Start the cluster only

Provision the managed cluster without submitting a simulation when inputs or the execution environment need preparation first.

Available on request

Run scientific software without managing the cluster.

Tell us which scientific application you need and how you plan to use it.