A First

Introductory course to OpenFOAMĀ® 2023

Date: March 14, 2023 - March 15, 2023
Location: von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, 72 Waterloosesteenweg Sint-Genesius-Rode, 1640, Belgique
Contact: secretariat@vki.ac.be
Phone: +3223599604

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The course gives a practical introduction to the structure and usability of OpenFoam and OpenFOAM related applications (snappyHexMesh, paraview). Besides the general introduction the participants will perform a complete numerical simulation starting from choosing the solver till post-processing.

The second day will be partially dedicated to the open source mesh generator snappyHexMesh and a multiphase simulation will be performed with the obtained mesh.

The course is organized by Dr. Silvania Lopes, research engineer and Dr. Lilla Koloszar, research expert at the von Karman Institute. Part of lectures will be given by von Karman Institute PhD candidates.

Deadline Early Bird Registration: 24 February 2023

Deadline Registration: 8 March 2023

Tuesday 14 March 2023

08:30 Registration

09:00 General introduction to OpenFOAM

10:15 Break

10:45 Tutorial on incompressible RANS simulation – Pre-processing

12:15 Lunch Break

13:30 Tutorial on incompressible RANS simulation – Simulation setup

15:00 Break

15:30 Tutorial on incompressible RANS simulation – Post-processing

17:00 End of course

Wednesday 15 March 2023

09:00 Meshing with SnappyHexMesh – part 1

10:15 Break

10:45 Meshing with SnappyHexMesh – part 2

12:15 Lunch break

13:30 Tutorial on incompressible multiphase VOF solver – Simulation setup

15:00 Break

15:30 Tutorial on incompressible multiphase VOF solver – Post-processing

16:30 Open discussion

The citizens of the following countries are eligible to attend the von Karman Institute Lecture Series:

- EU member countries
- NATO member countries
- NATO's Mediterranean Dialogue (Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Mauritania, Morocco, Tunisia)
- Istanbul Cooperation Initiative (Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, United Arab Emirates)
- Argentina, Australia, Bolivia, Brazil, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Chile, Colombia, Japan, India, Indonesia, Macedonia, Malaysia, Mauritania, Mexico, Montenegro, Mozambique, New Zealand, Nigeria, Republic of Korea, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Singapore, South Africa, Switzerland, Thailand, Uruguay, South-Africa and Vietnam.

VKI reserves the right to request a clearance check with Belgian authorities.

The participants will have to present their ID card (for EU citizens) or passport (for other citizens) the first day of the course.


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  • Academy (Full) 640.0
    Non-Academy (Full) 820.0

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    Introductory course to OpenFOAMĀ® 2023


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