paraFoam won't run
 

I have just installed a windows version of OpenFoam. I started running as instructed by the user guide---the cavity problem. I started with BlockMesh and it ran okay, I think. It generates five files:

boundary
faces
neighbour
owner
points

in the "cavity\constant\polyMesh" subdirectory. Then I was instructed to run paraFoam and the system gives me an error message that it's not an executable or a batch command. I also realize or at least I think the paraview needs to open a file called cavity.foam which I don't have. I am in reality stuck here. Can anyone give me some help on how should I proceed? Thanks in advance.

Greetings kyfung and welcome to the forum!

OK... Which one?
There are several (unofficial) modified builds of OpenFOAM for Windows on the Internet, along with the official "Use OpenFOAM in a VM"...
So which one are you talking about?

Best regards,
Bruno

paraFoam won't run---details of the installation
 

Hello Bruno,

Okay, I am sorry about not giving the details of the specific version of the
installation I had. This is the information regarding the version I
installed.

I downloaded this version of OpenFoam from sourceforge and the webpage
address is:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/openfoam-mswin/

the file name for this installation is:
OpenFOAM-1.5.00b-wininst.exe

It's being installed on a computer running Windows XP. I believe this version
is OpenFoam 1.5 and it's been out since 2009. By clicking on the "About" on
the GUI, it says it's compiled by MinGW c++ and also mentioned two gentlemen
called Constantine Faliagas and Otto Zimmer.

That's all the information I could gather at this point but if you need any
more I will sure be happy to search it out for you. Is this version I had a
stable and reliable release? or there exist a better version out there which
I have not came across?

Thanks again.

Hi Ky Fung,

That's what happens when you use old technology that has pretty much no support.
You can try a more recent one, which is updated once in a while and that has some instructions :): http://code.google.com/p/bluecfd-singlecore/

Best regards,
Bruno

Hi Bruno,

Thanks. Will sure look into the blueCAPE software. Will let you know how it works for me but it may take couple weeks because I don't work full time on this cfd thing.

blue cfd sigle core installation
 

Hey Bruno,

got this blue cfd single core installed and it's working like as it should. Thanks for the link. I am running the tutorial and learning how to input the geometry to the software. Again thanks for your help and I think I can use some more help from this community when the day come. And I think this is a very useful community. Take care.