[AndreF]

Hi all,

First thing first, sorry to all if this isn't in the correct section etc etc etc. I'm new to the forum.

Just a bit of background: I'm a design engineer at a company that produces exhaust systems for high end motorsports applications. We are more and more looking into design and I want to give OpenFOAM a shot.

I digged out an average pc that was doing nothing, and now have ubuntu 9.10 and vista in dual boot.

I'm now in the process of installing OpenFOAM but as you may guess by this point I'm very fresh on all this so I would like a few pointers about some things if that's ok in order to do the right things for the purpose I intend to give the software.

We would be mainly looking at having a system modeled in CAD and on that perform a CFD study. My main concern in to know what is available to simulate the kind of flow present in an exhaust system and also if it is possible to capture the wave action that goes on, since it is not continuous flow.

At this first stage, since I'm only now installing I'm just looking for people to tell me what to go for, what packages to install, what to have in mind, what to ignore, etc... since I don't want it to do anything else other that exhaust systems.

Many thanks
Andre