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## OpenFOAM specific settings:
# because of bug: http://bugs.debian.org/576837
export PYTHONPATH=/usr/lib/paraview:${PYTHONPATH}

export CSF_GraphicShr=/usr/lib/libTKOpenGl-6.3.0.so

# unsetting FOAM_INST_DIR and the other vars are necessary for a complete switch of the versions
alias startOF16ext='unset FOAM_INST_DIR;unset WM_PROJECT_USER_DIR;unset WM_THIRD_PARTY_DIR;source /usr/lib/OpenFOAM-1.6-ext/etc/bashrc'
alias startOF16extDbg='unset...

For now, these are only instructions for Ubuntu (11.04 to be exact, but they should work for 10.04 and above), and it shouldn't be all that different for OpenSuSE.

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Note: I've discovered the other day, thanks to a fellow user of this forum, that Doxygen 1.7.1 on Ubuntu 10.10 does not build the code documentation for OpenFOAM 2.0. Nonetheless, a solution is already known (two actually) and is shown here: http://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/ope...tml#post317304...

i am a graduate stuent in china and doing research about biomechanical, espically for the numerical study of blood flow through stenotic arteries. i hope i can make some friends in this website, and we could learn toghter.

First I would like to say that both flow solvers tend to provide the similar results if the mesh is of good quality and has appropriate no.of nodes and yplus values.

Therfore the first and the most important rule is to make, in any simulation of turbo machinery in particular and external flows in general, high quality mesh with all appropriate parameters e.g. yplus.

Now lets come to the difference

1. CFX has good turbulence models, although after merger...

sudo apt-get install git-core qt4-qmake qt4-dev-tools binutils-dev flex bison build-essential libreadline5-dev wget zlib1g-dev rpm cmake python-dev libxt-dev gnuplot python-numpy libtool autoconf gitk git-gui

mkdir ~/OpenFOAM
cd ~/OpenFOAM
git clone git://openfoam-extend.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/openfoam-extend/OpenFOAM-1.6-ext

echo "alias startOF16ext='unset FOAM_INST_DIR;unset WM_PROJECT_USER_DIR;unset WM_THIRD_PARTY_DIR;source ~/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6-ext/etc/bashrc'"...