Overview
OpenFOAM® is used throughout our consultancy business for a huge range in applications, from thermal flows to external aerodynamics. The OpenFOAM® (Open Field Operation and Manipulation) CFD Toolbox is a free, open source CFD software package produced by OpenCFD Ltd. It has a large user base across most areas of engineering and science, from both commercial and academic organisations. OpenFOAM has an extensive range of features to solve anything from complex fluid flows involving chemical reactions, turbulence and heat transfer, to solid dynamics and electromagnetics. It includes tools for meshing, notably snappyHexMesh, a parallelised mesher for complex CAD geometries, and for pre- and post-processing. Almost everything (including meshing, and pre- and post-processing) runs in parallel as standard, enabling users to take full advantage of computer hardware at their disposal.
ESI Group just announced the acquisition of OpenCFD Ltd, the leader in Open Source Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software. ESI Group becomes the owner of the OpenFOAM® trademark, which is widely recognized and used in many industries, notably in automotive, energy, and aerospace as well as academic.
