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OpenFOAM v11 Released - See Full Announcement

The OpenFOAM Foundation is pleased to announce the release of version 11 of the OpenFOAM open source CFD toolbox. Version 11 introduces modular solvers written as classes, in contrast to the traditional application solvers, integral to OpenFOAM since icoFoam in 1993. Modular solvers are simpler to maintain and extend, and are more flexible for multi-region simulations, e.g. conjugate heat transfer (CHT) with any type of flow, e.g. multiphase. Everything is backward-compatible, so: 1) application solvers will still compile in OpenFOAM; 2) launching an old application solver, e.g. simpleFoam, executes a script which runs the incompressibleFluid module on a single region.

OpenFOAM 11 includes the following highlights.

• Modular Solvers: class-based solvers for greater flexibility, e.g. multi-region simulations.
• Multiphase: vastly improved consistency and conservation in the multiphaseEuler module.
• Transport: added anisotropic thermal conductivity.
• Thermophysical: standardised the specification of property names in input file keywords.
• Heat transfer: simplified critical boundary conditions for heat transfer between regions.
• Particle tracking: generalised statistical distributions for size distributions in particles.
• Liquids Films: full replacement which conserves mass and integrates to other models.
• Meshes: redesign of dynamic mesh functionality and consolidated NCC.
• Function Objects: improved field averaging and visualisation function objects.
• Models and Constraints: numerous new models and constraints.
• Boundary Conditions: consolidated mapped conditions and introduced MRF conditions.
• Case Configuration: new foamToC application lists models and options in OpenFOAM.
• Programming: new finite volume functions and improvements to algorithm sequences.
• 964 code commits, 133 resolved issues.
• ISO/IEC 14882:2011 (C++14): tested for GCC v5.5+, Clang v16+ (v10+ should also work).

OpenFOAM 11 is packaged for the following platforms, with ParaView 5.10.1 including Mesa with LLVM/Gallium acceleration for systems without a (supported) graphics card:

• Ubuntu Linux: packaged installation for Ubuntu 20.04, 22.04 and 23.04;
• Other Linux: installation with a Docker container; or compilation from source code;
• Windows 10: installation using Windows Subsystem for Linux with Ubuntu packs;
• macOS: installation with a Docker container.

The OpenFOAM 11 Source Pack can be compiled on suitable Linux platforms.

Credits

OpenFOAM 11 was produced by:

• Maintainers (CFD Direct): Henry Weller (co-founder & lead developer); Chris Greenshields (co-founder), Will Bainbridge.
• Contributors: Timo Niemi, Juho Peltola.

Licence

OpenFOAM 11 is distributed under the General Public Licence v3 by the OpenFOAM Foundation.