interFoam (Foundation)

Code Access
  • Open-source
Docs
Code Base
  • OpenFOAM - Foundation
Parent Solver
  • N/A
Parent Code Base
  • N/A
Distributed by
  • OpenFOAM Foundation
License
  • GPL-2.0
Programming Languages
  • C++
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OpenFOAM is the free, open source CFD software developed primarily by OpenCFD Ltd since 2004. OpenFOAM has an extensive range of features to solve anything from complex fluid flows involving chemical reactions, turbulence and heat transfer, to acoustics, solid mechanics and electromagnetics.

General Scientific Metadata

Steady or Unsteady
  • Unsteady
Spatial Discretisation Scheme
  • Finite Volume Method (FVM)
Grid/Particle System
  • Unstructured

Fluid specific

Governing Equations
  • Navier-Stokes
Fluid density definition
  • Incompressible
Number of Fluid Phases
  • 2
Free-surface Treatment
  • Volume of Fluid (VOF)
Pressure-velocity coupling
  • SIMPLE
  • PISO
  • PIMPLE
Temporal Discretisation
  • Euler
  • Crank-Nicolson
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