OpenFOAM

Description

OpenFOAM is a free, open source CFD software package produced by a commercial company, OpenCFD Ltd. It has a large user base across most areas of engineering and science, from both commercial and academic organisations. OpenFOAM has an extensive range of features to solve anything from complex fluid flows involving chemical reactions, turbulence and heat transfer, to solid dynamics and electromagnetic.

Required Modules

modules documentation

intel/2018
openmpi/3.0.0
openfoam/5.0

$ module load intel/2018  openmpi/3.0.0 openfoam/5.0

System Variables

OpenFOAM variables

FOAM_INST_DIR - installation base directory
FOAM_APPBIN - executable program directory
FOAM_LIB - library directory
FOAM_SRC - source directory
FOAM_EXT_LIBBIN - ThirdParty library directory
PV_PLUGIN_PATH - ParaView library directory
FOAM_TUTORIALS - tutorial directory

Wmake variables

These are the wmake parameters used in building OpenFOAM and could be used for compiling the third-party OpenFOAM applications using wmake.

WM_PROJECT_INST_DIR - wmake installation base directory
WM_PROJECT_VERSION - wmake project version
WM_PROJECT - wmake project name (OpenFOAM in this case)
WM_PROJECT_DIR - wmake project directory
WM_DIR - directory where "wmake" executable is
WM_ARCH - architecture type
WM_COMPILER - compiler name
WM_COMPILE_OPTION - compiler option
WM_LINK_LANGUAGE - compiler for linking
WM_PRECISION_OPTION - precision type