OpenFOAM®  Technical Committees

Overview

The Technical Committees cover all the key focus areas for OpenFOAM development; they assess the state-of-the-art, need and status for validation, documentation and further development. Technical Committee Chairs are nominated and ratified by the Steering Committee for a three-year term with a small bursary to support the effort and overheads associated with coordination. Membership in each Technical Committee is open to all, and bound by the Code of Conduct.

Role of the Technical Committees

The Technical Committee meets quarterly to:

• Recommend OpenFOAM developments
• Assess OpenFOAM validation in scope
• Nurture involvement of OpenFOAM Community

Current committees include:

• Documentation
• Marine Applications
• Meshing
• Multiphase
• Numerics
• Optimisation
• Turbulence
• …others (core technologies and applications)

Documentation
Jozsef Nagy	Creator of the Tutorial Collection Term: October 2018 - October 2019
Marine Applications
Kevin Maki	Associate Professor Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, University of Michigan Term: October 2018 - October 2019
Meshing
Franjo Juretic	Author of cfMesh Term: October 2018 - October 2019
Multiphase
Holger Marschall	TU Darmstadt Term: October 2018 - October 2019
Numerics
Hrvoje Jasak	One of the two principal developers of OpenFOAM Chair of Turbo-machinery, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture University of Zagreb Term: October 2018 - October 2019
Optimisation
Kyriakos Giannakoglou	Professor, National Technical University of Athens, School of Mech. Eng., Lab. Of Thermal Turbomachines, Head of the Parallel CFD & Optimization Unit Term: October 2018 - October 2019
Turbulence
Charles Mockett	Upstream CFD GmbH, Berlin, Germany Term: October 2018 - October 2019