This seminar will describe the structure and capabilities of OpenFOAM numerical library for Continuum Mechanics simulations. The presentation will be held by Dr. Hrvoje Jasak from Wikki Ltd London, UK.

Written in C++ and using an object-oriented approach, OpenFOAM provides a flexible simulation platform by mimicking the form of partial differential equations in software. The library provides extensive capabilities in pre-configured solvers, utilities and libraries, with massive parallelism in a domain decomposition model. OpenFOAM is freely available and open source, licensed under the GNU General Public Licence.

A combination of object-orientation and high performance computing poses a number of requirements in software design. The approach and implementation details adopted in OpenFOAM will be examined. The talk will be completed with several examples of OpenFOAM use high end in Large Eddy and free surface flow simulations.