OpenCFD Release OpenFOAM® v1712
31/12/2017
OpenCFD is pleased to announce the December 2017 release of OpenFOAM® v1712. This release extends OpenFOAM-v1706 features across many areas of the code. The new functionality represents development sponsored by OpenCFDs customers, internally funded developments, and integration of features and changes from the OpenFOAM community.
OpenFOAM is distributed by OpenCFD under the GPL license as:
- Source code to be compiled on any Linux system
- Pre-compiled binary installation for Linux systems
- Pre-compiled binary installation for Mac OS X systems
- MS Windows installer
- Bash on Ubuntu on Windows for MS Windows 10
Please refer to the download instructions to obtain the code.
The development repositories are publicly available. These repositories are regularly updated with bug fixes and new functionality.
Upgrading
- Help for users is provided in the user upgrade guide.
- Help for developers is provided in the developer upgrade guide.
Pre-processing
- Community contribution: Integration of cfmesh more...
- Improved checkMesh utility output more...
- Improved dictionary operation more...
- Improved stitchMesh utility more...
Numerics
- Community contribution: Integration of finite area more...
- Extended overset mesh functionality more...
- Community contribution: Updated particle tracking algorithm more...
- Community contribution: New deferred correction schemes more...
Solvers and physical models
- Community contribution: New avalanche modelling more...
- New Arrhenius viscosity transport model more...
- New energy transport for non-thermal solvers more...
- Improvements when coupling to external applications more....
- New energy sub-looping for CHT solvers more....
- New heat exchanger modelling more....
- New heat transfer coefficient modelling more....
- New turbulence decay control more....
- New viscous dissipation modelling more....
Boundary conditions
Post-processing
- New field entry wildcard support more...
- Extended noise modelling more...
- Extended ParaView and VTK functionality more...
- New window averaging functionality more...
Parallel
- Community contribution: New collocated file input/output for parallel running more...
- Updated decomposePar utility more...
- Updated multi-level decomposition method more...
- New interface to the kaHIP decomposition library more...
- New and improved parallel processing more...
Usability
Build system
About us
OpenFOAM is produced by the core ESI-OpenCFD team
- Andrew Heather
- Mattijs Janssens
- Sergio Ferraris
- Mark Olesen
- Prashant Sonakar
- Pawan Ghildiyal
- Roger Almenar
- Matej Forman
- Sebastien Vilfayeau
- Bjorn Landmann
- Siby Mandapathil Baby
- Mayur Wala
- Karen Kettle
- Fred Mendonca
With wider support from the global ESI team
- ESI Group (GmbH)
- ESI Group (ESI Software (India) Private Limited)
- ESI Group (North America)
- ESI Group (Nihon ESI)
And contributions from
- Wikki
- Creative Fields
- OpenFOAM.org
- The Environmental Hydraulics Institute IHCantabria
- CFD Software E+F GmbH