Will Bainbridge, OpenFOAM core developer, will talk about the "Medium-term development plans for OpenFOAM" at The #OpenFOAM Foundation Expo. Book a place now for Chicago (Naperville) USA 1-3 June or London UK 15-17 June. cfd.tips/expo
The "planeType" of a planar surface is deduced automatically from the specified plane parameters, e.g. "pointAndNormal" for parameters "point" and "normal" in #OpenFOAM-dev github.com/OpenFOAM/Ope...
"How to define a CFD model" will be an important talk from Chris Greenshields, OpenFOAM co-founder, at The #OpenFOAM Foundation Expo. Book a place now for Chicago (Naperville) USA 1-3 June or London UK 15-17 June. cfd.tips/expo
'mesh.db()' now returns the objectRegistry in which the mesh data is registered, with the objectRegistry's parent being accessed with the `parent()` function in #OpenFOAM-dev github.com/OpenFOAM/Ope...
New 'functionalFixedValue' boundary condition is a flexible and efficient way or specifying non-uniform and/or time-varying inlet fields, with initial support for 'zonal', 'Function1' or 'coded' functions in #OpenFOAM-dev github.com/OpenFOAM/Ope...
Join us at The #OpenFOAM Foundation Expo for a demonstration of "Tools that help with OpenFOAM Programming" by Aidan Wimshurst, the man behind Fluid Mechanics 101. Book for Chicago (Naperville) USA 1-3 June or London UK 15-17 June. cfd.tips/expo
As the man behind the code, Will Bainbridge will demonstrate "Eulerian multiphase simulation in OpenFOAM" at The #OpenFOAM Foundation Expo. Book a place now for Chicago (Naperville) USA 1-3 June or London UK 15-17 June. cfd.tips/expo
Fields can be initialised with nonuniform values by configuring the internalField as 'zonal', 'function1' or 'coded' - three new options which set values by zones, a pre-configured function, or by a coded function in #OpenFOAM-dev github.com/OpenFOAM/Ope...
When Paraview loads field files, it no longer throws a fatal error if the 'value' entry is missing in #OpenFOAM-dev github.com/OpenFOAM/Ope...
At The #OpenFOAM Foundation Expo, Chris Greenshields, author of Notes on #CFD: General Principles, will demonstrate "Coding case files for post-processing". Book a place now for Chicago (Naperville) USA 1-3 June or London UK 15-17 June. cfd.tips/expo
Watch a live demonstration of "Building small, simple utilities in OpenFOAM" by Aidan Wimshurst at The #OpenFOAM Foundation Expo. Book a place now for Chicago (Naperville) USA 1-3 June or London UK 15-17 June. cfd.tips/expo
Brendan Bouffler and Henry Weller, OpenFOAM Foundation Directors will discuss "Hardware, operating system and performance" at The #OpenFOAM Foundation Expo. Book for Chicago (Naperville) USA 1-3 June or London UK 15-17 June. cfd.tips/expo
The .#includeEtc directive can now take arguments in #OpenFOAM-dev github.com/OpenFOAM/Ope...
The #OpenFOAM Foundation Expo will include a discussion on "Keeping up to date with OpenFOAM" with the CFD Direct team. Book a place now for Chicago (Naperville) USA 1-3 June or London UK 15-17 June. cfd.tips/expo
Fields can be initialised with nonuniform values by configuring the internalField as 'zonal', 'function1' or 'coded' - three new options which set values by zones, a pre-configured function, or by a coded function in #OpenFOAM-dev github.com/OpenFOAM/Ope...
Join the training session at The #OpenFOAM Foundation Expo on "Thermodynamics for CFD" by Chris Greenshields, the leading OpenFOAM Trainer. Book for Chicago (Naperville) USA 1-3 June or London UK 15-17 June. cfd.tips/expo
A 'print' zoneGenerator prints log information for generated zones to help users check they have configured zones correctly in their input files in #OpenFOAM-dev github.com/OpenFOAM/Ope...
Will Bainbridge will demonstrate "Modular Lagrangian in OpenFOAM" - which he developed - at The #OpenFOAM Foundation Expo. Book a place now for Chicago (Naperville) USA 1-3 June or London UK 15-17 June. cfd.tips/expo
Improved quality and performance of the bounded sphere functionality in #OpenFOAM-dev github.com/OpenFOAM/Ope...
Book a ticket for The #OpenFOAM Foundation Expo to hear "The story of OpenFOAM" from Henry Weller, the creator of OpenFOAM. Coming to Chicago (Naperville) USA 1-3 June or London UK 15-17 June. cfd.tips/expo
The coded file input, e.g. for coded function objects, is an incredibly powerful tool to extract the data you need from #OpenFOAM. We take participants through several coded examples on our Productive #CFD courses cfd.tips/tprd
Book a ticket for The #OpenFOAM Foundation Expo 2026, for talks, training, and demos from Aidan Wimshurst, an OpenFOAM trainer and consultant at CFD Direct, known to many for his #CFD lectures on YouTube under the channel Fluid Mechanics 101. cfd.tips/expo
The dynamic code system for coded file inputs has be overhauled in #OpenFOAM-dev github.com/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM...
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The isothermalFilm solver has been corrected to ensure the volumetric flux is consistent with the velocity and film volume is conserved with fixed-flux conditions in #OpenFOAM-dev github.com/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM...
Book a ticket for The #OpenFOAM Foundation Expo 2026, for talks, training, demos and discussion from Chris Greenshields: OpenFOAM co-founder, leading OpenFOAM trainer (850+ days worth), author of Notes on #CFD: General Principles (4000+ copies sold). cfd.tips/expo
Day 1 of #Productive #CFD 2 Training Course, #Cologne, Germany using the latest version of #OpenFOAM (v13).
Book now for The #OpenFOAM Foundation Expo in June 2026 in Chicago or London and talk to the developers of modular solvers, NCC, field-based Lagrangian, MULES, mesh zones, snappyHexMeshConfig, fvModels/fvConstraints, liquid films, and more cfd.tips/expo
The isothermalFilm solver has been corrected to constrain the volumetric flux with fixed velocity boundary conditions in #OpenFOAM-dev github.com/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM...
