The Centre for High Performance Computing (CHPC) is pleased to present the two-day OpenFOAM Foundation Course in Cape Town and Gauteng. This workshop is available to all scientists and engineers, practitioners and professionals, researchers and students working in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) in South Africa. The foundation course is a comprehensive introduction to the installation and use of OpenFOAM with many practical demonstrations. For more information see the detailed course description below.

OpenFOAM is a powerful open source CFD toolbox incorporating solvers, pre- and post-processors, libraries and utilities in a flexible object-orientated C++ framework which can simulate complex fluid flows involving chemical reactions, turbulence and heat transfer, to solid dynamics, electromagnetics and the pricing of financial options.

For more information on the capabilities and features of OpenFOAM see the website at www.openfoam.com.

Dates

Cost

R 5 000.00 per person for the two-day course; includes tea/coffee, lunch, course notes and bootable media containing OpenFOAM/Linux.
The cost for bona fide students and staff of recognized academic institutions is R 500.00 per person.

Application

Send your application by email to:

Indicate which workshop (Cape Town or Pretoria) you are applying for.

Kindly provide your contact details including email address and day-time phone number, along with the full address of your employer.

If you are a student, please provide your student number, the university and degree you are registered for, along with the title of your thesis topic, and your supervisor's name and contact details.

Unfortunately, a maximum of 20 attendees can only be accommodated at each workshop, so the CHPC may need to restrict attendance per institution or research group.

OpenFOAM: Foundation Course

This course introduces the open source CFD toolbox, OpenFOAM. It is designed to enable the participants to use OpenFOAM effectively and independently. It provides a foundation for all aspects of OpenFOAM, from installation to programming, so is useful to both new users and existing users wishing to broaden their basic knowledge of OpenFOAM. The training uses live demonstrations of the practical operation of OpenFOAM, particularly to show users how to learn about OpenFOAM by exploring the software itself. A live OpenFOAM/Linux installation is provided on a USB memory stick which participants can boot on their personal laptops and use to follow the live demonstrations, if they so wish (although this is not essential.)

Topics Covered

• Installation and navigation of the OpenFOAM software
• Background in the use of Linux/UNIX
• Solvers and utilities
• Basic meshing and a selection of meshing tools
• Field initialisation and boundary conditions
• Selecting models
• Solution monitoring and control
• Post-processing
• Job control
• Mapping fields
• Running in parallel
• Introduction to C++ and its use in OpenFOAM
• Code structure and compilation
• Code walk through 1: a simple utility
• The finite volume method and its basic algorithms
• Code walk through 2: a simple OpenFOAM solver
• Introduction to programming of models and boundary conditions

Target Audience

• New users
• Existing users seeking to broaden their basic knowledge.

Prerequisites

No prior knowledge of OpenFOAM or Linux is required

Live Installation Hardware Requirements

Participants wishing to use the live installation of OpenFOAM on their own laptop need to ensure that the laptop BIOS has the option to boot from a USB device and that it is enabled as the first boot device.

Note: Our experience is that the live OpenFOAM/Linux installation boots on any relatively new laptop (less than 3 years old), but we cannot guarantee it.

The OpenFOAM Foundation course, organised and sponsored by the CHPC, is delivered by OpenCFD Limited, the developers of OpenFOAM, supported by their partners at hpctraining.com — the education division of SGI.