Course Contents

The course is a 5 day course with physical attendance. The programme is subject to minor changes.

Day 1

• Introduction to Linux/UNIX and OpenFOAM structure
• The OpenFOAM code base and environmental variables
• Efficient collaboration on OpenFOAM projects using Git (we will use GitHub)
• Automating workflows for reproducible simulations
• Generating structured meshes with blockMesh
• Importing meshes in commercial formats (e.g. ANSYS Fluent)
• Boundary and initial conditions
• Physical parameters, solver settings and turbulence modelling
• Post-processing with Paraview

Day 2

• Complex meshing with snappyHexMesh
• Running simulations in parallel
• Mesh manipulation and mapping techniques for efficient grid independence analyses
• Function objects for runtime post-processing
• Automating post-processing with Python and Paraview

Day 3

• Introduction to C++ programming in OpenFOAM
• Writing solvers in OpenFOAM

Day 4

• Coupling OpenFOAM with external optimisation tools in Python

Day 5

• The OpenFOAM code base and its documentation
• Writing new boundary condition
• Writing a new function object