OpenFOAM

OpenFOAM is an open-source software for CFD.

Useful links

OpenFOAM user documentation

Licensing

OpenFOAM is open source (see the OpenFOAM License Agreement).

Version

The following versions of OpenFOAM are currently available:

v1906 (ESI-OpenCFD)
v1812 (ESI-OpenCFD)
7 (OpenFOAM Foundation)

Running

Example Job Submission Script

Arm

#!/bin/bash

#PBS -N openfoam_job

# Select 1 nodes (maximum of 64 cores)
#PBS -l select=1:ncpus=64

# Select wall time to 10 minutes
#PBS -l walltime=0:10:0

# Use the arm nodes
#PBS -q arm

# Load modules for currently recommended OpenFOAM v1812 build
module swap PrgEnv-cray PrgEnv-allinea

# Change to directory that script was submitted from
export PBS_O_WORKDIR=$(readlink -f $PBS_O_WORKDIR)
export OMP_NUM_THREADS=1
cd $PBS_O_WORKDIR

# Load the environment variables for OpenFOAM v1812 build
export OPENFOAM_DIR=/lustre/software/aarch64/apps/openfoam/v1812/OpenFOAM-v1812
export PATH=$PATH:$OPENFOAM_DIR/bin/
source $OPENFOAM_DIR/etc/bashrc

# Launch OpenFoam solvers
# aprun -n 64 ..