I am interested in learning Open Foam and other CFD tools, and wondering what resources were out there to get started.
A bit of background: Aerospace Engineer by degree, have used ANSYS Fluent wayyy back in the day, but have been more focused on structural design and analysis career-wise. I do have some experience with 2D analysis of airfoil sections in XFOIL, and use CAD daily for work.
I'd like to try a number of basic runs and learn Open Foam's process, and eventually work up to being able to do a full vehicle model (I do have access to CAD and most of the day job is working in various CAD systems).
Always looking to learn, and once I get things set up and start trying different things, I'm sure I'll be posting here and asking lots of questions.
Honsch
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4/28/21 11:18 a.m.
You can try out Freecad, they've got some level of integration with various solvers.
Honsch said:
You can try out Freecad, they've got some level of integration with various solvers.
I mean, I should probably learn just to learn, but I've got access to CATIA, Solidworks, etc. 
OpenFOAM seems to be Lunix-based so getting the win10 integration will be interesting. I'll dig into trying to install things after work.
Look up Josef Nagy on youtube. He has a good set of videos to get you up and running with OpenFoam specifically. Since you have some background, it may be a little slow, but the OpenFoam specific stuff will get you rolling.
stafford1500 said:
Look up Josef Nagy on youtube. He has a good set of videos to get you up and running with OpenFoam specifically. Since you have some background, it may be a little slow, but the OpenFoam specific stuff will get you rolling.
Thank you! Anything helps, and so far the install bit is a bit convoluted with the Linux on windows, bash terminal stuff. I used to know a lot more, installed Ubuntu on pretty much every PC I built during high school, but it's been a while.
