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Old   May 16, 2006, 18:29
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Hi everyone,

I am new with CFD analysis. I have a few questions about COMSOL and Fluent:

1) What is the difference between COMSOL and Fluent. Do they have the same function?

2) In your opinion, which program will be better for oil and gas industry. ie, i need to deal with sloshing model and flow model.

Thanks in advance for your advice.

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Old   May 17, 2006, 15:55
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Forget COMSOL. This is easy to use for small problems (academic, 2D, etc) but not for realistic cases. You should either consider one of the large suppliers like ANSYS-CFX, Fluent, StarCD.......

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Old   May 17, 2006, 21:56
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I agree. If you're more in the 'Open source'[1] or more rigorously 'Free software'[2] spirit, I would highly recommend using OpenFoam[3]. I've been a Fluent user for about 3 years now, and I'm making the transition to OpenFoam simply because it offers me more freedom to tweak every aspect in detail.

[1] http://www.opensource.org/ [2] http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-s...r-freedom.html [3] http://www.opencfd.co.uk/openfoam/index.html
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Old   May 18, 2006, 17:55
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Is openfoam a software to simulate foam and foaming flows?

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Old   May 18, 2006, 22:09
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No. If you read the webpage correctly, you'll see that it is a general purpose CFD code that can even do DNS if you want. It has most capabilities already. Interface tracking VOF, Eulerian bubbly flows, etc. etc.
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Hi MAC ,

I dont know any thing about C++ (which openfoam is based ) . I want to use the VOF level set method . Do I need to learn C++ in order to use openfoam ? or is it just as like using commercial codes with no GUI ?

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if you don't want to developp your own solver, you don't need to learn C++.
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