ESI OpenCFD Release OpenFOAM® v2312
ESI OpenCFD Release OpenFOAM® v2312
OpenCFD is pleased to announce the December 2023 release of OpenFOAM® v2312. This release extends OpenFOAM-v2306 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. In addition to source code packages suitable for compilation on a variety of Linux and other POSIX systems, this release also has a number of pre-compiled binary packages
- Ubuntu Linux: packaged installation for Ubuntu 22.04 (LTS), 20.04 (LTS), 18.04 (LTS), 23.04, 22.10
- openSUSE Linux: packaged installation for Leap 15.5
- Redhat Linux variants: packaged installation for epel 9; Fedora 37
Windows users have three options for pre-compiled packages (more information):
- Using Windows Subsystem for Linux (based on Ubuntu, openSUSE etc.)
- Native executables with cross-compilation
- A docker installation
OpenFOAM apptainer support is provided via description files rather than pre-assembled images:
Mac OSX users have the option to compile from source, or use Docker containers for pre-compiled packages (more information).
Upgrading
- Help for users is provided in the user upgrade guide
- Help for developers is provided in the developer upgrade guide
- Note that the minimum C++ standard will increase from C++11 to C++17 in 2024
Pre-processing
- snappyHexMesh: writing faces from the automatic leak path closure more...
- snappyHexMesh: new multiple inside points more...
- snappyHexMesh: parallel meshing load balancing more...
- snappyHexMesh: layer-by-layer addition more...
- Improved Nastran surface reader more...
- Improved checkMesh utility more...
- Improved subsetMesh utility more...
Numerics
- Community contribution: Improved adjoint shape optimisation more...
- Community contribution: New topology-based adjoint optimisation more...
Post-processing
- New Abaqus sampled set more...
- New Abaqus set writer more...
- Improved patch seed set more...
- New case information function object more...
- New reduced-order modelling field reconstruction with DMD more...
- Improved noise utility more...
- Improved Ensight output more...
- New Lagrangian function object: Weber Number more...
- Improved handling of empty surfaces (surfaceFieldValue) more...
About us
OpenFOAM is produced by the core ESI-OpenCFD team
- Andrew Heather
- Mattijs Janssens
- Mark Olesen
- Prashant Sonakar
- Pawan Ghildiyal
- Kutalmış Berçin
- Matej Forman
- Chiara Pesci
- Martin Lichtmes
- Jiri Polansky
- Mohammad Ashfaqul Bari
- Ann Ronchetti
- Fred Mendonça
- Swapnil Salokhe
- Venkata Ramana Eaga
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)
- ESI webteam
And contributions from
- The OpenFOAM Community
- PCOpt/NTUA and FOSS GP
- Josep Pocurull