The first version of GeekoCFD can be downloaded from SUSE Studio Gallery. This brings all the features listed in my previous announcement, plus a few fixed to the installation system of the live-DVD, an updated kernel and Java virtual machine, and a few other minor fixes listed in the changelog. I am waiting to know if the distribution can be freely released without modifications, or if I have to remove the openSUSE branding to be able to do that. The SUSE Studio and openSUSE team should answer soon. In the meanwhile, you must have a SUSE Studio account to access to the images. I have a few (8) invitations left,…
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GeekoCFD is coming…
GeekoCFD is a live distribution based on openSUSE 11.3 – 64 bit, whose purpose is to provide easy and immediate access to open-source scientific tools, in particular for computational fluid dynamics. The live distribution was created with SUSE Studio, whose team was very helpful in the process of solving some small problems during the setup. Almost all the packages provided in the images were prepared by openSUSE developers and community volunteers, to whom most of the merit should go. The features of the distribution are the following: System OpenSUSE 11.3 – 64 bit Kernel 2.6.34 gcc 4.5.0 KDE 4.4.4 Scientific software cantor enGrid 1.2.0 gmsh 2.4.2 grace gsl wxMaxima and…
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OpenFOAM 1.7.1 has been released and brings new bugreporting tool
OpenCFD® announced the release of OpenFOAM® 1.7.1, which has been verified using gcc 4.5 compilers and openSUSE 11.3. Together with this version, a new bug reporting system has been made available. Users of OpenFOAM 1.7.x will receive the updates directly in the git repository, with a regular “git pull”, without any need to install the updated version explicitly. This offering is not approved or endorsed by OpenCFD Limited, the producer of the OpenFOAM software and owner of the OPENFOAM® and OpenCFD® trade marks.
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Installing OpenFOAM 1.7 on openSUSE 11.3
The installations instructions for OpenFOAM 1.7.0 on openSUSE 11.3 are almost identical to those for openSUSE 11.2 reported here. However, one additional package is necessary. For the reader’s convenience, I report the whole procedure, highlighting in orange the differences with the installation on openSUSE 11.2. The steps of the procedure are the following: Use YaST to install the C/C++ development pattern in YaST cmake libqt4-devel (required to build paraview) libQtWebKit-devel (required to build paraview) flex Create a directory called OpenFOAM in your home directory mkdir ~/OpenFOAM Enter the OpenFOAM directory cd ~/OpenFOAM Download both the OpenFOAM and ThirdParty packages from here and save them in your ~/OpenFOAM directory Extract the OpenFOAM-1.7.0.gtgz…
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Installing OpenFOAM 1.7 on openSUSE 11.2
Installing OpenFOAM® 1.7 on openSUSE 11.2 is very similar to installing OpenFOAM 1.6.x, however some differences deserve to be noticed. The steps of the procedure are the following: Use YaST to install the C/C++ development pattern in YaST cmake libqt4-devel (required to build paraview) flex Create a directory called OpenFOAM in your home directory mkdir ~/OpenFOAM Enter the OpenFOAM directory cd ~/OpenFOAM Download both the OpenFOAM and ThirdParty packages from here and save them in your ~/OpenFOAM directory Extract the OpenFOAM-1.7.0.gtgz package with the command: tar xzf OpenFOAM-1.7.0.gtgz Extract the ThirdParty-1.7.0.gtgz package with the command: tar xzf ThirdParty-1.7.0.gtgz Open your ~/.bashrc file in a text editor and add the line: .…
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OpenFOAM 1.7 released
OpenCFD® released OpenFOAM® 1.7, which consolidates the features of the git version OpenFOAM 1.6.x in the new release, under the GNU GPL 3 license. A summary of the new features can be found here, while more details are available in the release notes of the code. The new version can be downloaded from the web-page at this link. Differently from the previous releases, OpenFOAM 1.7 is distributed in binary form only for Debian/Ubuntu systems, while for other Linux distributions only the source code is available. No pre-compiled, platform-independent binary package is made available. As usual, however, the code has been tested on the latest stable releases of openSUSE and Ubuntu,…
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OpenFOAM 1.6.x on openSUSE 11.2 and VTK reader
Installing OpenFOAM® on openSUSE 11.2 is very easy, and can be done using, at least in part, the system tools, to take advantage of the new compiler. The steps of the procedure are the following: Use YaST to install the C/C++ development pattern in YaST cmake libqt4-devel (required to build paraview) Create a directory called OpenFOAM in your home directory mkdir ~/OpenFOAM Enter the OpenFOAM directory cd ~/OpenFOAM Download the OpenFOAM sources from the GIT repository git clone git://repo.or.cz/OpenFOAM-1.6.x.git Download the third party packages from the OpenCFD website Extract the third party packages corresponding to your architecture in the ~/OpenFOAM directory Rename the ThirdParty-1.6 into ThirdParty-1.6.x Remove the following directories…
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Installing OpenFOAM 1.6.x and keeping it up to date
OpenCFDTM regularly releases updates for OpenFOAMTM using a GIT repository, which can be conveniently used both for a fresh installation and to keep your current OpenFOAM installation up to date. First installation Create a directory called OpenFOAM in your home directory: mkdir ~/OpenFOAM Enter the OpenFOAM directory: cd ~/OpenFOAM Download the OpenFOAM sources from the GIT repository: git clone git://repo.or.cz/OpenFOAM-1.6.x.git Download the third party packages from the OpenCFD website. If you are using a 64-bit system, you need to download also the 32-bit version of the third party package, containing cmake. Extract the third party packages corresponding to your architecture (32 or 64 bit) in the ~/OpenFOAM directory. If you…
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OpenCFD releases OpenFOAM 1.6
OpenCFD announced today the release of OpenFOAMTM 1.6, which a rich set of new features. The full list of new features and changes can be found in the release notes, while the code can be downloaded from the official website here. Among the new functionalities: New structure in the turbulence (RANS and LES) models New wall functions for both RANS and LES models. Thermophysical model to allow non-gaseous materials to be defined. Generalized polynomial equation of state. Finite volume discrete ordinate method for radiation modelling. Discrete Simulation Monte Carlo solver. Polynomial fit higher order schemes. Coal combustion model in Lagrangian solvers. Steady state and transient solvers for heat transfer. Reacting…
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OpenFOAM Live USB with SUSE Studio
I have recently prepared an OpenFOAM(r) Live USB image using SUSE Studio to try Studio functionalites, and I was really impressed by the ease of use, the clean interface and its capabilities. You find a detailed description of what I did in the slides I prepared. In the slides you will see how to build a personalized version of openSUSE, add OpenFOAM to it and complete the system with some CFD tools like NETGEN and enGrid. In the end, the system is tested in real time on SUSE Studio servers. The compressed image (64 bit only at the moment) can be downloaded from here. After expanding it, you can write…