History
The original development of OpenFOAM started in the late 1980s at Imperial College, London, to develop a more powerful and flexible general simulation platform than the de facto standard at the time, FORTRAN. This led to the choice of C++ as programming language, due to its highest modularity and object oriented features. The predecessor, FOAM, was sold by UK company Nabla Ltd. before being released as open source in 2004. On 15 August 2011, OpenCFD announced its acquisition by Silicon Graphics International (SGI). On September 12, 2012, the ESI Group announced the acquisition of OpenFOAM Ltd from SGI.
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