OpenCFD Release OpenFOAM® v1806
29/06/2018
OpenCFD is pleased to announce the June 2018 release of
OpenFOAM® v1806. This release extends OpenFOAM-v1712
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
- Windows installer
- 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
- New dry-run solver set-up checks more...
- Improved input dictionary robustness more...
- New string expansion shortcuts more...
- Improved field mapping in parallel more...
- snappyHexMesh: New directional refinement more...
Numerics
- New scheme stabilisation more...
Solvers and physical models
- New laser melting solver more...
- Community contribution: Consolidation of moving mesh solvers more...
- Community contribution: Moving mesh functionality added to interIsoFoam more...
- New coded moving mesh functionality more...
- New rigid body restraints more...
- Community contribution: New wave-mangrove interaction more...
Boundary conditions
- New swirl fan velocity condition more...
- New outlet Mach number condition more...
- Community contribution: New wave generation models more...
Post-processing
- New In-situ processing with ParaView Catalyst more...
- New writing of residual fields more...
- Updated writing of VTK format data more...
- Updated writing of Ensight format data more...
- Improved field sampling more...
- New uniformity index more...
Documentation
- New solvers documentation more...
- New fvOption documentation more...
- New verification and validation cases more...
Notable bug fixes
- snappyHexMesh layer addition feature angle more...
Build system
- Improved configuration and make system more...
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
- Son Vo
- 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
- OpenFOAM.org
- Johan Roenby
- The Environmental Hydraulics Institute IHCantabria