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Rants removed from a recent post of mine about OpenFOAM vs OpenFOAM+ in 2016-02-14

Posted February 14, 2016 at 15:23 by wyldckat
Updated October 5, 2016 at 14:38 by wyldckat (changed artificial tag [RANT] to [IMPORTANT_RANT])

This blog post contains the rants that I pruned out from my original draft for the post #13 on this thread: http://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/ope...am-v3-0-a.html

The rants are listed by section:

Where I stand in all of this (aka Disclaimer of intentions)

[RANT]
I started looking into OpenFOAM in late 2008, beginning of 2009, because at the company I work at, we needed to use OpenFOAM on Microsoft's Windows OS. As a result - and a fun...

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Signatures I've had here on the forum

Posted February 7, 2016 at 18:10 by wyldckat
Updated July 23, 2019 at 18:54 by wyldckat

Tags historic forum stuff, memories, signatures

Over the years, I've had different signatures. After over 9200 posts, I decided to do a quick list of the signatures I've had over the years:

Rough memory about this being the first one, sometime in 2010 till 2011:

Quote:

Useful links for building and using OpenFOAM

2011 or 2012 till May 2014:

Quote:

OpenFOAM: Frequently Asked Questions | Useful links for building and using
Forum: How to ask for help | Posting code and output with [CODE]
My to-do list and when I'll be able

...

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How to install salome 7.7.1

Posted December 21, 2015 at 08:36 by suggalachaitu

Tags meshing, openfoam, salome

1- open a new terminal type [ tar xzf SALOME-7.7.1-OPENSOURCE-UB14.tgz ]
2- follow by [ ./Salome-V7_7_1-LGPL-x86_64.run ]
you will see this error
bash: ./Salome-V7_7_1-LGPL-x86_64.run: Permission denied
3- then type [ chmod +x ./Salome-V7_7_1-LGPL-x86_64.run ]
type this again [ ./Salome-V7_7_1-LGPL-x86_64.run ]
Then you are good to go.
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Self Extracting Salome V7_7.1 Installer

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BEM python script for small-scale rotors

Posted November 6, 2015 at 12:28 by skeptik (CFD notes)
Updated January 29, 2016 at 13:43 by skeptik

The repository

https://github.com/engenegr/pyProp

Blade Element Momentum theory program to calculate small-scale low-Re rotor characteristics. The current implementation is useful for multirotors.

I.Evdokimov, "Blade element theory in the UAV multirotor Blade Optimization", CAE Conference Pacengo del Garda (Verona) - Italy, 19 - 20 October 2015 http://www.caeconference.com/speakers/evdokimov.html

Full text also accessible here:...

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CFD & Ancient Hindu Science (From Vedas, Yoga & Spirituality)

Posted October 29, 2015 at 00:49 by adarsh tiwari

Tags cfd

Hi, Friends. I know you must be curious to know why my blog title is bit weird. Believe me, I have not gone crazy nor am I trying to break my promise of writing blogs on Turbulence model.

Last two weeks, I was on pilgrimage with a 70-year-old young and handsome man (My Grandpa) and 68-year-old young and beautiful lady (My Grandma). They are typical ‘Hindu’ by birth, karma and ‘Samskara’ while, I am a ‘Hindu-Shaivite’ who in many aspects appears as an Atheist. This blog I am writing...