OpenFOAM (OpenCFD Ltd) v1812-foss-2018b

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The OpenFOAM® (Open Field Operation and Manipulation) CFD Toolbox can simulate anything from complex fluid flows involving chemical reactions, turbulence and heat transfer, to solid dynamics, electromagnetics and the pricing of financial options. OpenFOAM is licensed under the GNU General Public License.

Accessing OpenFOAM (OpenCFD Ltd) v1812-foss-2018b

To load the module for OpenFOAM (OpenCFD Ltd) v1812-foss-2018b please use this command on the BEAR systems (BlueBEAR and BEAR Cloud VMs):

📋 module load OpenFOAM/v1812-foss-2018b

BEAR Apps Version

2018b

Architectures

EL8-cascadelake — EL8-icelake — EL8-sapphirerapids

The listed architectures consist of two part: OS-CPU. The OS used is represented by EL and there are several different processor (CPU) types available on BlueBEAR. More information about the processor types on BlueBEAR is available on the BlueBEAR Job Submission page.

Recommended Setup

By default OpenFOAM creates a project directory in your home directory. This is used to store various items related to running OpenFOAM. However, there is a restriction on your home directory which means that this is often not enough space for OpenFOAM to operate. To avoid issues you should create a directory in a RDS project space and then symlink it. First load an OpenFOAM module and then follow these instructions:

mkdir /rds/projects/[project]/[my_openfoam_directory]
cd ~/
ln -s /rds/projects/[project]/[my_openfoam_directory] ${WM_PROJECT}

In this, [project] and [my_openfoam_directory] should be changed to be a suitable directory in a suitable project.

OpenFOAM Environment Setup

The command:

source ${FOAM_BASH}

runs the OpenFOAM configuration file in the current bash shell session. In some cases the source ${FOAM_BASH} will return an error code even though it has successfully completed. If you use set -e then this should be placed after the source command.

Note, some older versions of OpenFOAM require the command ${FOAM_CONFIG} instead.

More Information

For more information visit the OpenFOAM (OpenCFD Ltd) website.

Dependencies

This version of OpenFOAM (OpenCFD Ltd) has a direct dependency on: CGAL/4.11.1-foss-2018b-Python-2.7.15 foss/2018b libreadline/7.0-GCCcore-7.3.0 METIS/5.1.0-foss-2018b ncurses/6.1-GCCcore-7.3.0 ParaView/5.4.1-foss-2018b-mpi SCOTCH/6.0.6-foss-2018b

Other Versions

These versions of OpenFOAM (OpenCFD Ltd) are available on the BEAR systems (BlueBEAR and BEAR Cloud VMs). These will be retained in accordance with our Applications Support and Retention Policy.

Last modified on 15th October 2020