Philip Cardiff

Ali Shayegh

Our Speakers

Philip is an Associate Professor at the University College Dublin.​

In the context of OpenFOAM, he is mostly known as the initiator of "solids4foam​", a comprehensive solid mechanics software based on OpenFOAM.

Philip is a member of the OpenFOAM Workshop Conference Committee​, and editor for OpenFOAM journal​.

Last but not least, he is a "Super Moderator" on cfd-online forum.

Ali is a Full-time researcher at I-Form, the Irish center for advenced manufacturing.

During the past seven years, Ali has been involved in holding four OpenFOAM workshops, and he is curious to go ahead with another one.

As a cfd-online senior member, he helps learners to create their industry-level computational tools, starting right from a blank text file!

Why Attend?

You may ask the question above; at the same time, you might have heard (e.g. here) that the primary reason for OpenFOAM not being used as much as a few commercial alternatives is that it is not trivial to use!

Learning how to use OpenFOAM is uphill, and this hill is STEEP. Do you want to save your precious time to get to the first hilltop in one day, or to put quite a few months into that?

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