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* [[mhdFoam]] Solver for magnetohydrodynamics (MHD): incompressible, laminar flow of a conducting fluid under the influence of a magnetic field.
 
* [[mhdFoam]] Solver for magnetohydrodynamics (MHD): incompressible, laminar flow of a conducting fluid under the influence of a magnetic field.
  
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== Finance ==
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[[financialFoam]] Solves the Black-Scholes equation to price commodities.
  
 
== heatTransfer ==
 
== heatTransfer ==

Revision as of 23:25, 8 June 2005

The solvers that are supplied with OpenFOAM. This page is structured according to the directory structure of the solver-sources.

1 basic

  • laplacianFoam Solves a simple Laplace equation, e.g. for thermal diffusion in a solid.
  • potentialFoam Simple potential flow solver which can be used to generate starting fields for full Navier-Stokes codes.

2 combustion

  • engineFoam Solver for internal combustion engines.
  • XiFoam Compressible premixed/partially-premixed combustion solver with turbulence modelling.
  • Xoodles Compressible premixed/partially-premixed combustion solver with large-eddy simulation (LES) turbulence modelling.

3 compressible

  • rhopSonicFoam Pressure-based compressible flow solver using density-weighted variables.
  • sonicFoam Transient solver for trans-sonic/supersonic, laminar flow of a compressible gas.
  • sonicFoamAutoMotion Transient solver for trans-sonic/supersonic, laminar flow of a compressible gas with mesh motion.
  • sonicLiquidFoam Transient solver for trans-sonic/supersonic, laminar flow of a compressible liquid.
  • sonicTurbFoam Transient solver for trans-sonic/supersonic, turbulent flow of a compressible gas.

4 Direct numerical simulation (DNS) and large eddy simulation (LES)

  • dnsFoam Direct numerical simulation solver for boxes of isotropic turbulence.
  • oodles Incompressible LES solver.

5 electromagnetics

  • mhdFoam Solver for magnetohydrodynamics (MHD): incompressible, laminar flow of a conducting fluid under the influence of a magnetic field.

6 Finance

financialFoam Solves the Black-Scholes equation to price commodities.

7 heatTransfer

8 incompressible

9 multiphase

10 stressAnalysis


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