Installation/Linux/foam-extend-4.1

For acute installation issues, please post on the corresponding OpenFOAM Installation forum at CFD-Online.

Maintainer

The current maintainer of this page is Tschenkel (talk).

This page explains how to install the foam-extend project on various Linux distributions (as I only use Linux, I cannot help with that at the moment. If you have instructions for these, either get in touch or edit these pages). If you have installed foam-extend on a platform that is not mentioned here or had to take other/additional steps for successful installation, please contribute and edit this page or post at OpenFOAM Installation forum at CFD-Online (and send a message to the maintainer).

Overview

To quote from the release notes of the project:

The foam-extend project is a fork of the OpenFOAM® open source library for Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). It is an open project welcoming and integrating contributions from all users and developers. Previously known as OpenFOAM-dev and OpenFOAM-extend, it contains bug fixes and performance improvements, as well as extensions and additional features provided by community contributors (see file ListOfContributors). For a full list, see below and previous release notes at: http://sourceforge.net/p/foam-extend/wiki/Home/

Version 4.1, nicknamed "Duisburg", is the current version o foam-extend. The release continues the tradition and spirit of the original FOAM code developed by prof. Jasak and Mr. Weller during their time at Imperial College and released as the general purpose CFD/CCM package by Nabla Ltd. in 2000. In this spirit, we reverted 18 December 2013 to the original numbering scheme (foam-2.3.2, 13 December 2004) as release number 3.0. Visit http://foam-extend.org for more information.

OPENFOAM is a registered trademark of ESI Group. OpenFOAM-extend and foam-extend are a community effort not endorsed by ESI Group.

This is a major release of foam-extend-4.1