OpenFOAM CATALYST

OpenFOAM Training for Developer Skills

Nov 14, 2024

9:00 AM, Dublin

Online/In-person, Dublin - Ireland

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Professor Philip Cardiff

Ali Shayegh

Our Lecturers

Philip is a Professor at the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, 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 an editor for the 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 advanced manufacturing.

During the past seven years, Ali has been involved in holding four OpenFOAM training events, and he is excited 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!

Guest Lecturer

Main Lecturer

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?

Featured Sessions

But a basic class cannot handle 3D Navier-Stokes ...

PDE is a class, Navier-Stokes is an object ...

Starting from a blank text file, we argue what is the best way of coding a PDE. We create a naive PDE class, and solve a particular PDE.

So, we start using a well-equipped OpenFOAM PDE class, i.e., fvScalarMatrix. We introduce template classes which handle the most general PDE forms, e.g., full Navier-Stokes.

Field, space, and Time ...

But... what is the main unknown(s) you are trying to solve for? We create fields, e.g., temperature, before the PDE, e.g., heat conduction equation. Creating fields involves creating mesh and time objects.

A time loop which solves our PDE and writes the results concludes the argument. We set up a sample simulation to make sure our solver works correctly.

Your First solver, from scratch ...

That was only the beginning, see the full agenda ...

Venue

Address

Engineering Building, University College Dublin, Stillorgan Rd, Belfield, Dublin 4

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