I did a little research on combining cfMesh, Salome and OpenFoam to create completely free and Open-source parametric CFD simulation. So I want to share my experiences and maybe somebody can give me some advice to correct me or use part of what I did. I tried to create parametric Ahmed body simulations and I had some success, so I created a little tutorial. I will explain how to create parametric geometries with Salome and meshes with cfMesh. All files explained in these thread can be downloaded from tutorials page: Parametric Ahmed body.
To couple Salome and cfMesh with Foam use scripts page: Foam's little helpers
Running cfMesh[edit]
Setting up mesh dictionary (meshDict) for cfMesh is easy and very good explained in its documentation (cfMesh documentation) and tutorials. Running stlCombine and cfMesh (after generating geometries and case directories with explained bash script "salomePythonScriptReader") is simple and those few commands can be appended to script "salomePythonScriptReader". Now we have completely automatized geometries and mesh generation. If you decide to go step further, It is possible to append OpenFoam commends to bash script "salomePythonScriptReader" and run simulations on created cases.
There are some guidelines which are needed to know when using cfMesh with .stl files. They are explained in thread: cfMesh tips & tricks
