openFOAM anybody?

@shashank-94ap1q • Oct 26, 2024

Oct 26, 2024

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Hello,

I am trying to install and start learning openFOAM CFD myself, on a windows system. The installation for this predominantly (Linux based) open source CFD environment has been given as a list of steps. I am totally stuck in the installation. Can anybody, with previous experience in using openFOAM help me?

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Ramani Aswath

@ramani-VR4O43 • Feb 3, 2015

I think that this may not work with windows. Nowhere in their site I see any mention of Windows.
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Abhishek Rawal

@abhishek-fg9tRh • Feb 3, 2015

So you're trying to build linux codebase in Windows ? That's like using gat to bring down T-90.

You'll need Linux distribution to use openFOAM. I see no support for Windows or OS X there.
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Shashank Moghe

@shashank-94ap1q • Feb 3, 2015

Well as it turns out you can cross compile openFoam using utilities like cygwin64. The precompiled binaries and source code for Windows distribution are available on the internet. The problem is the cross compilation platform- cygwin64 in my case- which happens to give problems after installation. Some registeries dont happen is what Im beginning to suspect now.
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Abhishek Rawal

@abhishek-fg9tRh • Feb 3, 2015

Can you post the output ?

I found this : #-Link-Snipped-# when I duckduckgo 'openFOAM for Windows'. They do have support I guess. But I wonder why they haven't mentioned in official website.

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durga ch

@durga-TpX3gO • Feb 3, 2015

umm
wrappers are always a headache for me. cant you just run linux as virtual machine and run the program within the virtual machine?? virtual machine can be made to connect to host machine (thats a different discussion though)
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Shashank Moghe

@shashank-94ap1q • Feb 4, 2015
1. Yes, the support for windows is not something openFOAM mentions on their website (and the problems we run into might be the reason why, they do not want the extra headache of supporting another OS based distribution).
2. I tried running Ubuntu on a VirtualMachine- My system runs like a F1 engine (just the heat and noise part, speed is very slow) when I run ubuntu in a VM environment and besides, even after I have started using the VM ubuntu, I am pretty sure parallelization (as a strength of openFOAM) is already thrown out of the window. My laptop will blow out.
3. The only option I am left with is this - <a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/openfoam-mswin/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">OpenFOAM for MS windows binary release download | SourceForge.net</a> which again is a cross compiler, but looking at the rating, I suppose unlike cygwin64, this should run fine. Will update you once I get this done.
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