OPENfoam Courses
 

I am considering attending the 2-Day foundations course available in April advertised on the OPENfoam website:

http://www.openfoam.com/training/

Does anyone have experience taking these types of courses before? Are there cheaper options around?

I would be paying out of pocket, unfortunately. My goal is to both learn CFD and increase my marketability as an engineer. I am a pretty good programmer and have experience with MATLAB, C++ and some 1-D numerical analysis.

Oops, I meant OpenFOAM

Hi,
there are several good OF courses around!

I think you should answer in which OpenFOAM world does your future employer live!

If your employer uses OpenFOAM-extend => http://openfuelcell.sourceforge.net/
it is best to visit a course organised by Wikki http://wikki.gridcore.se/company/our...pport-training or visit the OpenFOAM workshop in Zagreb this summer because you are close to those developer community

If you for sure know that your employer is an ESI customer you have allready found the right trainings website.

The course
"C++ Applied to OpenFOAM Online Course" is at 200€
http://www.technicalcourses.net/port...hp?curso_id=15
is quite interesting in my eyes

"CFD with OpenFOAM online course" is at 400€ http://www.technicalcourses.net/port...hp?curso_id=15

well I answered my opinion in that thread allready
http://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/ope...tml#post469241

I took the course some years ago. It is good, but in that short time you can only get enough to get started. If your employer is paying for it, it is probably worth it. Since those taking the course come from different backgrounds, they teach a bit of Linux (enough to get around), how to build models (mostly where things need to go to get your model going), and how to modify instances of OpenFoam to meet your requirements (a bit of programming). The theoretical stuff they talk about is mostly how OpenFoam discretizes the physics. In four days (both courses), they cannot go very deep into all of it. In my case it was enough to getting me over the hump.

Best of luck.