[Phicau]

Dear all,

When facing some adversities, we have the choice to see an obstacle or an opportunity.

After so much work developing olaFoam to provide an advanced and easy to use wave generation framework in OpenFOAM®, ESI-OpenCFD, the company that owns the OpenFOAM trademark has determined that I must cease to use the name olaFoam, without alternative or dialogue options.

I have decided to see this as an opportunity to find a better name and connect with you, the users, to find new ideas to keep expanding all this work and following my deep beliefs in open source.

So, what comes next? You name it, literally!

I would be grateful if you could share this post with your colleagues and let me know which is your preferred name for the new project from the list below. Also, feel free to suggest additional names and features that you would like to see implemented in the comments.

As you have probably guessed, I would like to keep using the word "ola", which means wave in Spanish, and will help people to be less confused with yet another change in the project name...

• olaFlow
• olaSolver
• olaRANS
• olaNS
• olaDynamics
• olaWave

Lastly, I would like to thank all of the olaFoam users, your feedback has been amazing and it is the fuel that helps me move forward.