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OpenFOAM installed on Athena
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Thu Nov 29 20:11:39 2007
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Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 20:11:25 -0500
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
I've installed OpenFOAM on Athena (Linux only). OpenFOAM is an extensible
multiphysics application best suited to analysing continuous physical systems
whose physical processes can be described by partial differential equations.
This type of application is quite complex, involving preprocessing,
meshing/solving a model of the physical processes, and postprocessing/display
steps. You'll need to refer to the documentation and tutorials in the
manual if you're not already proficient at working with this type of software.
To prepare for running it:
setup openfoam
This command sets many environment variables used by various OpenFOAM
components and puts many of them on your path. Some major ones are
FoamX, with runs a GUI setup interface, and paraFoam, which is a
post-processor/display utility. There are many other utilities and
solvers, many of which are command-line applications.
Please refer to the What Runs Where entry
(http://web.mit.edu/acs/www/simulation.html#OpenFOAM) and the
README.athena in the openfoam_v1.4.1 locker
(http://web.mit.edu/openfoam_v1.4.1/README.athena) for additional
information and links to documentation.
A similar application on Athena is Elmer.
Alex
