Help required !!!

faisal_durr · November 20, 2009, 05:32

Hi guys,
im new to the world of CFD and would really like the help of you experts out there. I have two questions which i would like you to answer:

1. Can you explain in simple steps how to install openfoam on a windows operating system ? im not getting the guide lines given in the openfoam official downloading site.

2. I really am not very familiar with CFD related jargon. What book would you recommend me to read to get to know the jargon and their definitions.

Thanks you guys.

kumar · November 21, 2009, 05:15

Hello Faisal,
I would recommend you to install OpenFoam on Linux, rather than on windows, because in that case you will have many people to help you for installation and it is also easy to find help on the forum for installation on Linux.

So if you want to start learning Linux installation and Linux basics , I would suggest you first install Ubuntu 9.04 or the latest version.

Regarding the books for CFD

I would suggest:
1) Computational Fluid Dynamics by Ferziger and Peric.
2) Computational Fluid Dynamics and its applications by Blazek
3) Numerical computation of Internal and External flows by Charles Hirsch
4) Introduction to computational Fluid dynamics by Versteeg and Malalsekera
5) Introdiction to Computational Fluid dynamics by Anderson Jr.
6) Computatioal Flud dynamics and Heat transfer by Tannheil and Fletcher

hope this helps
bye

kev4573 · November 21, 2009, 14:19

1) On windows, your best bet is to install VmWare server or player and get a virtual linux environment running. Then install OpenFOAM on the virtual machine. That will allow you to at least get started with openfoam.

2) You can learn a lot just going through the OpenFOAM tutorials and picking through the cfd-online.com and wikipedia.org websites.

November 20, 2009, 05:32	Help required !!!	#1
faisal_durr Member Faisal Durrani Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: England Posts: 62 Rep Power: 16	Hi guys, im new to the world of CFD and would really like the help of you experts out there. I have two questions which i would like you to answer: 1. Can you explain in simple steps how to install openfoam on a windows operating system ? im not getting the guide lines given in the openfoam official downloading site. 2. I really am not very familiar with CFD related jargon. What book would you recommend me to read to get to know the jargon and their definitions. Thanks you guys.

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November 21, 2009, 05:15		#2
kumar Senior Member Suresh kumar Kannan Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg Posts: 129 Rep Power: 17	Hello Faisal, I would recommend you to install OpenFoam on Linux, rather than on windows, because in that case you will have many people to help you for installation and it is also easy to find help on the forum for installation on Linux. So if you want to start learning Linux installation and Linux basics , I would suggest you first install Ubuntu 9.04 or the latest version. Regarding the books for CFD I would suggest: 1) Computational Fluid Dynamics by Ferziger and Peric. 2) Computational Fluid Dynamics and its applications by Blazek 3) Numerical computation of Internal and External flows by Charles Hirsch 4) Introduction to computational Fluid dynamics by Versteeg and Malalsekera 5) Introdiction to Computational Fluid dynamics by Anderson Jr. 6) Computatioal Flud dynamics and Heat transfer by Tannheil and Fletcher hope this helps bye

November 21, 2009, 14:19		#3
kev4573 Senior Member Kevin Smith Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 104 Rep Power: 17	1) On windows, your best bet is to install VmWare server or player and get a virtual linux environment running. Then install OpenFOAM on the virtual machine. That will allow you to at least get started with openfoam. 2) You can learn a lot just going through the OpenFOAM tutorials and picking through the cfd-online.com and wikipedia.org websites.