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v2506: OpenFOAM Community

Community contribution: Turbulence Committee

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We are pleased to announce new contributions to the Turbulence Technical Committee's repository:

Source code

Attribution

  • Developed by the Turbomachinery and Unsteady Flows Research Group, from the University of Windsor. First implemented in OpenFOAM by Zhifan Yu, updated for more recent OpenFOAM versions by Jeff Defoe

Community contribution: HPC Committee

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The HPC Technical Committee announces a major update and significant extension of its benchmark suite, expanding on the foundational work led by Ivan Spisso. The updated repository now includes 30 benchmark cases, spanning a wide range of CFD applications—from external aerodynamics to reactive flows—and mesh sizes ranging from a few thousand to over 2 billion cells. The suite serves as a standardized reference for evaluating performance across hardware architectures, software environments, and configuration strategies, with a focus on reproducibility and metric consistency.

This development was carried out within the exaFOAM project under a work package led by Henrik Rusche (Wikki GmbH). The repository update was prepared by Sergey Lesnik (Wikki GmbH), in collaboration with Charles Mockett (Upstream CFD) and Ivan Spisso (Leonardo Finmeccanica).

Case-specific details, including authorship and configuration notes, are available in the repository:

    https://develop.openfoam.com/committees/hpc

 

Community contribution: Turbomachinery Special Interest Group

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The Turbomachinery Special Interest Group, with sponsorship through OpenFOAM Governance, provided a port of the mixingPlane code from foam-extend.

The code is compatible with AMI coupled patches, and also a ported from of GGI from foam-extend.

The repository also includes a set of axial turbine tutorials that gives examples of how to set up simulations using SRF, MRF, partly rotating meshes, cyclicAMI, cyclicPeriodicAMI, mixingPlane, and special boundary conditions for rotating machinery.

Thank you

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Thank you

A big Thank you to the following people who contributed to OpenFOAM.

Contributions to the issue tracking: