Goals

Goals for openfoam for this week:

• Get openfoam running on local machine
• visualize output
• get basic fluid flow simulation working
• get basic fluid flow simulation with rotary thing
• get basic fluid flow simulation with free floating rigid object

Progress

Getting openfoam up and running

Okay so apparently you need to do some gpg magic

sudo sh -c "wget -O - https://dl.openfoam.org/gpg.key > /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/openfoam.asc"
sudo add-apt-repository http://dl.openfoam.org/ubuntu

And then you maybe need to install openfoam and openfoam10. I found the latter actually seems to install stuff, unsure if the former is useful.

Once you do that, the recommendation is to copy one of the tutorial directories in openfoam and run the Runall script to build stuff.

The documentation is… less than stellar.

Visualize Output

Got it about as far as figuring out how to view the mesh and initial conditions I think. There’s a youtube video (blech) describing how to do an animation.