Capabilities
OpenFOAM solvers include:
- Basic CFD solvers
- Incompressible flow with RANS and LES capabilities
- Compressible flow solvers with RANS and LES capabilities
- Buoyancy-driven flow solvers
- DNS and LES
- Multiphase flow solvers
- Particle-tracking solvers
- Solvers for combustion problems
- Solvers for conjugate heat transfer
- Molecular dynamics solvers
- Direct Simulation Monte Carlo solvers
- Electromagnetics solvers
- Solid dynamics solvers
In addition to the standard solvers, OpenFOAM's syntax lends itself to the easy creation of custom solvers.
OpenFOAM utilities are subdivided into:
- Mesh utilities
- Mesh generation: they generate computational grids starting either from an input file (blockMesh), or from a generic geometry specified as STL file, which is meshed automatically with hex-dominant grids (snappyHexMesh)
- Mesh conversion: they convert grids generated using other tools to the OpenFOAM format
- Mesh manipulation: they perform specific operations on the mesh such as localized refinement, definition of regions, and others
- Parallel processing utilities: they provide tools to decompose, reconstruct and re-distribute the computational case to perform parallel calculations
- Pre-processing utilities: tools to prepare the simulation cases
- Post-processing utilities: tools to process the results of simulation cases, including a plugin to interface OpenFOAM and ParaView.
- Surface utilities
- Thermophysical utilities
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