OpenFOAM Solvers – CFD

Latest version of SimFlow supports the following OpenFOAM solvers:

buoyantBoussinesqSimpleFoam – Steady-state, incompressible solver with buoyancy, turbulence, heat transfer, porosity and rotating reference frame modelling

buoyantBoussinesqPimpleFoam – Transient, incompressible solver with buoyancy, turbulence, heat transfer, radiation, porosity and rotating reference frame modelling

buoyantSimpleFoam – Steady-state, compressible solver with buoyancy, turbulence, heat transfer, radiation, porosity and rotating reference frame modelling

buoyantPimpleFoam – Transient, compressible solver with buoyancy, turbulence, heat transfer, radiation, porosity and rotating reference frame modelling

cavitatingFoam – Transient, incompressible solver for cavitation modelling, based on homogeneous equilibrium model for water/vapour compressibility

cavitatingDyMFoam – Transient, incompressible solver for cavitation modelling, based on homogeneous equilibrium model for water/vapour compressibility. Supports mesh motion and deformation.

chtMultiRegionSimpleFoam Steady-state, compressible solver with conjugate heat transfer, buoyancy, turbulence, radiation, porosity and rotating reference frame modelling

chtMultiRegionFoam – Transient, compressible solver with conjugate heat transfer, buoyancy, turbulence, radiation, porosity and rotating reference frame modelling

coalChemistryFoam – Transient, compressible solver with combustion, turbulence, heat transfer, radiation, porosity and rotating reference frame modelling. Includes lagrangian model for coal transport, heat transfer, devolatilization and surface reactions

compressibleInterFoam Transient, compressible solver for two non-isothermal, immiscible fluids. Supports buoyancy, turbulence and heat transfer modelling. Uses the Volume of Fluid method for phase interface capturing.

driftFluxFoam – Transient, incompressible solver for two fluid mixture with buoyancy and turbulence modelling. Uses mixture approach with the drift-flux approximation for relative motion of the phases. Used for simulating the settling of the dispersed phase and other similar separation problems.

icoFoam – Simple, transient, incompressible solver for laminar flow of Newtonian fluids

interCondensatingEvaporatingFoam – Transient, incompressible solver for two isothermal, immiscible fluids. Supports phase-change (evaporation-condensation) between a fluid and its vapour. Uses the Volume of Fluid method for phase interface capturing.

interFoam – Transient, incompressible solver for two isothermal, immiscible fluids. Supports buoyancy, turbulence and heat transfer modelling. Uses the Volume of Fluid method for phase interface capturing

interDyMFoam Transient, incompressible solver for two isothermal, immiscible fluids. Supports buoyancy, turbulence and heat transfer modelling. Uses the Volume of Fluid method for phase interface capturing. Supports mesh motion and deformation

interIsoFoam – Transient, incompressible solver for two isothermal, immiscible fluids. Supports buoyancy, turbulence and heat transfer modelling. Uses the Iso-Advector method for phase interface capturing

interMixingFoam – Transient, incompressible solver for three isothermal fluids, two of which are miscible. Supports buoyancy, turbulence and heat transfer modelling. Uses the Volume of Fluid method for phase interface capturing.

interPhaseChangeFoam – Transient, incompressible solver for two isothermal, immiscible fluids. Supports buoyancy, turbulence and heat transfer modelling. Uses the Volume of Fluid method for phase interface capturing. Provides set of phase-change models designed to simulate cavitation.

interPhaseChangeDyMFoam – Transient, incompressible solver for two isothermal, immiscible fluids. Supports buoyancy, turbulence and heat transfer modelling. Uses the Volume of Fluid method for phase interface capturing. Provides set of phase-change models designed to simulate cavitation. Supports mesh motion and deformation.

laplacianFoam – Simple Laplace equation solver. Used for thermal diffusion in solids

LTSInterFoam – Local Time Stepping, incompressible solver for two isothermal, immiscible fluids. Supports buoyancy, turbulence and heat transfer modelling. Uses the Volume of Fluid method for phase interface capturing.

LTSReactingFoam – Local Time Stepping solver for combustion with chemical reactions and turbulence modelling.

LTSReactingParcelFoam – Local Time Stepping solver with combustion, turbulence, heat transfer, radiation, porosity and rotating reference frame modelling. Includes lagrangian model for multiphase particles.

multiphaseEulerFoam – Transient, incompressible solver for many isothermal fluids. Supports buoyancy, turbulence and heat transfer modelling.

multiphaseInterFoam – Transient, incompressible solver for many isothermal, immiscible fluids. Supports buoyancy, turbulence and heat transfer modelling. Uses the Volume of Fluid method for phase interface capturing

overInterDyMFoam – Transient, incompressible solver for two isothermal, immiscible fluids. Supports buoyancy, turbulence and heat transfer modelling. Uses the Volume of Fluid method for phase interface capturing. Uses the Overset method for mesh motion and deformation.

overLaplacianDyMFoam – Simple Laplace equation solver. Used for thermal diffusion in solids. Uses the Overset method for mesh motion and deformation

overPimpleDyMFoam – Transient, incompressible solver with turbulence, porosity and rotating reference frame modelling. Uses the Overset method for mesh motion and deformation

overRhoPimpleDyMFoam – Transient, compressible solver with turbulence modelling. Uses the Overset method for mesh motion and deformation

overRhoSimpleFoam – Steady-state, compressible solver with turbulence modelling. Uses the Overset method for mesh motion and deformation

overSimpleFoam – Steady-state, incompressible solver with turbulence, porosity and rotating reference frame modelling. Uses the Overset method for mesh motion and deformation

pimpleDyMFoam – Transient, incompressible solver with turbulence, porosity and rotating reference frame modelling. Supports mesh motion and deformation

pimpleFoam – Transient, incompressible solver with turbulence, porosity and rotating reference frame modelling

pisoFoam – Simple, transient, incompressible solver with turbulence modelling.

porousSimpleFoam – Steady-state, incompressible solver with turbulence, porosity and rotating reference frame modelling

reactingFoam – Transient solver for combustion with chemical reactions and turbulence modelling

reactingParcelFilmFoam – Transient solver with combustion, turbulence, heat transfer, radiation, porosity and rotating reference frame modelling. Includes lagrangian and surface film models.

reactingParcelFoam – Transient solver with combustion, turbulence, heat transfer, radiation, porosity and rotating reference frame modelling. Includes lagrangian model for multiphase particles

rhoCentralDyMFoam – Transient, compressible, density-based solver with turbulence modelling. Supports mesh motion and deformation

rhoCentralFoam – Transient, compressible, density-based solver with turbulence modelling.

rhoLTSPimpleFoam – Local Time Stepping, compressible solver with turbulence modelling

rhoPimpleFoam – Transient, compressible solver with turbulence modelling

rhoPimpleDyMFoam – Transient, compressible solver with turbulence modelling. Supports mesh motion and deformation

rhoPorousSimpleFoam – Steady-state, compressible solver with turbulence and porosity modelling

rhoReactingBuoyantFoam – Transient, combustion solver with buoyancy, turbulence, heat transfer, radiation, porosity and rotating reference frame modelling

rhoReactingFoam – Transient solver for combustion with chemical reactions and turbulence modelling.

rhoSimpleFoam – Steady-state, compressible solver with turbulence modelling

rhoSimplecFoam – Steady-state, compressible solver with turbulence modelling

SRFPimpleFoam – Transient, incompressible solver with turbulence, porosity and single rotating reference frame modelling

SRFSimpleFoam – Steady-state, incompressible solver with turbulence, porosity and single rotating reference frame modelling

simpleCoalParcelFoam – Steady-state, compressible solver with combustion, turbulence, heat transfer, radiation, porosity and rotating reference frame modelling. Includes lagrangian model for coal transport, heat transfer, devolatilization and surface reactions

simpleFoam – Steady-state, incompressible solver with turbulence, porosity and rotating reference frame modelling

simpleReactingParcelFoam – Steady-state solver with combustion, turbulence, heat transfer, radiation, porosity and rotating reference frame modelling. Includes lagrangian model for multiphase particles

sonicDyMFoam – Transient solver for trans-sonic and supersonic flow with turbulence modelling. Supports mesh motion and deformation

sonicFoam – Transient solver for trans-sonic and supersonic flow with turbulence modelling

sprayDyMFoam – Transient solver with combustion, turbulence, heat transfer, radiation, porosity and rotating reference frame modelling. Includes lagrangian model for spray particles. Supports mesh motion and deformation.

sprayFoam – Transient solver with combustion, turbulence, heat transfer, radiation, porosity and rotating reference frame modelling. Includes lagrangian model for spray particles.

twoLiquidMixingFoam – Transient, incompressible solver for two mixing fluids. Supports buoyancy and turbulence modelling.

MPPICFoam – Transient solver for the coupled transport of a single kinematic particle cloud including the effect of the volume fraction of particles on the continuous phase. Multi-Phase Particle In Cell (MPPIC) modeling is used to represent collisions without resolving particle-particle interactions.

MPPICDyMFoam – Transient solver for the coupled transport of a single kinematic particle cloud including the effect of the volume fraction of particles on the continuous phase. Multi-Phase Particle In Cell (MPPIC) modeling is used to represent collisions without resolving particle-particle interactions. Supports mesh motion and deformation.

DPMFoam – Transient solver for the coupled transport of a single kinematic particle cloud including the effect of the volume fraction of particles on the continuous phase.

DPMDyMFoam – Transient solver for the coupled transport of a single kinematic particle cloud including the effect of the volume fraction of particles on the continuous phase. Supports mesh motion and deformation.

Incompressible Single Phase Solvers