OpenCFD Release OpenFOAM® v1812
20/12/2018
OpenCFD is pleased to announce the December 2018 release of OpenFOAM® v1812. This release extends OpenFOAM-v1806 features across many areas of the code. The new functionality represents development sponsored by OpenCFD’s 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
- New snappyHexMesh directional stretching more...
- New leakage detection more...
- New Homogeneous Isotropic Turbulence (HIT) initialisation more...
- Improvements for topo-sets and searchable surfaces more...
- Improved input dictionary robustness more...
Numerics
- Extended overset mesh functionality more...
- Community contribution Dynamic mesh refinement Improvements more...
Boundary conditions
- Community contribution New wave generation models more...
- New generalised boundary condition more....
- Improved atmospheric boundary layer conditions more....
- Improved freestream condition more....
Post-processing
- New parallel handling of VTK datasets more...
- New function object to compute AMI patch performance more...
- New function object to compute field extents more...
- Improved residuals function object more...
- New momentum function object more...
- New vtkCloud function object more...
- New dataCloud function object more...
- Community contribution Improved generation of isosurfaces more...
Parallel
Usability
- Updated co-ordinate systems more...
- New environment controls more...
- New man pages more...
- Improvements in portability more...
Core
Documentation
- New verification and validation cases 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
- Siby Mandapathil Baby
- Mayur Wala
- Son Vo
- Kutalmis Bercin
- 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
- The Environmental Hydraulics Institute IHCantabria
- OpenFOAM.org
- Technische Universitat Darmstadt