How to install Open Foam 15
 

Hi,
I am eager to learn open Foam..So can anybody tell me...How to install open Foam with procedure...in detail.
At present I am working on Gridgen,Gambit,Ansys ICEM, Catia & Fluent, in National aerospace Laboratories-Bangalore...Now I am Planning to get exposure about Open Foam.
So anybody inform me to how to install Open Foam & its directories...
Thanking You,:)


Madhukar.C.G

Hello, look at the following link: OpenFOAM-1.6 install cookbook Maybe this can help you...

OpenFOAM-1.6 Installation on Ubuntu 9.04

OpenFOAM is an opensource Computational Fluid Dynamic Toolbox. The latest release can be found here.

Download OpenFOAM-1.6.General.gtgz , OpenFOAM-1.6.linux64GccDPOpt.gtgz , ThirdParty-1.6.General.gtgz , and ThirdParty-1.6.linux64Gcc.gtgz from download page above (choose your linux platform).

Make OpenFOAM directory on your home directory, using this command in the terminal (LINUX is CasE SensiTiVE!):

mkdir $HOME/OpenFOAM
move all four downloaded files from step 1 into the new directory
in the terminal, move into the new directory

cd $HOME/OpenFOAM
extract all downloaded files using:

tar -xzf OpenFOAM-1.6.General.gtgz
tar -xzf OpenFOAM-1.6.linux64GccDPOpt.gtgz
tar -xzf ThirdParty-1.6.General.gtgz
tar -xzf ThirdParty-1.6.linux64Gcc.gtgz
Change the permission of OpenFOAM folder with these commands; replace (username) with your username

sudo chown -R (username) $HOME/OpenFOAM/
sudo chmod -R 755 $HOME/OpenFOAM/
edit .bashrc file with gedit

sudo gedit $HOME/.bashrc
insert this line to the .bashrc file (there is a dot and a space before the dollar sign, include them!), save, close

. $HOME/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6/etc/bashrc
back in the terminal, run commands to update the environment variables:

. $HOME/.bashrc
test the installation:

$HOME/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6/bin/foamInstallationTest
For paraView to work, first you need to install Qt4-Assistant: Applications>>Add/Remove.. then search for Qt4-Assistant, install it
For getting started, make your OpenFOAM user directory from terminal:

mkdir -p $FOAM_RUN/run
Copy the tutorials to your user's run directory

cp -r $WM_PROJECT_DIR/tutorials $FOAM_RUN
Try first example, the incompressible laminar flow in a cavity

cd $FOAM_RUN/tutorials/incompressible/icoFoam/cavity
blockMesh
icoFoam
paraFoam

Installation of OpenFOAM 1.6 on Ubuntu 9.10

OpenFOAM is another open source CFD software. In order to install OpenFOAM onto Ubuntu 9.10, the following packages are necessary.

cmake g++ flex++ bison python qt4-designer binutils-dev zlib1g-dev

Use apt-get to install them before trying to install and use OpenFOAM.

:/$ sudo apt-get install cmake g++ flex++ bison python qt4-designer binutils-dev zlib1g-dev

A very brief introduction on the compilation

1. Download the related packages, including the source pack and the binary pack. Double precision is recommended.

2. Create a directory OpenFOAM under $HOME (or at other locations if you prefer), move the downloaded packages into it, and then execute

# ship into $HOME/OpenFOAM/
:/$ tar xzvf OpenFOAM-1.6.General.gtgz
:/$ tar xzvf ThirdParty-1.6.General.gtgz
:/$ tar xzvf OpenFOAM-1.6.linuxGccDPOpt.gtgz
:/$ tar xzvf ThirdParty-1.6.linuxGcc.gtgz

3. After the files extracted, source the file OpenFOAM-1.6/etc/bashrc.

# at $HOME/OpenFOAM/
:/$ source OpenFOAM-1.6/etc/bashrc

For convenience, a sentence could be incorporated into the user config file ~/.bashrc to avoid executing the command above manually in the future.

source $HOME/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6/etc/bashrc

4. Compile ParaView. Ship into OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-1.6 and execute

sh makeParaView

5. Link OpenFOAM ParaView reader and ParaView.

:/$ cd $FOAM_UTILITIES/postProcessing/graphics/PV3FoamReader
:/$ ./Allwclean
:/$ ./Allwmake