OpenFOAM®® simulations take a significant amount of time leading to higher costs of simulations. GPU technology has a potential to reduce the time.There are a few solutions on the market such as ofgpu or SpeedIT. Which one do you prefer? What are their limitations?Do you think OpenFOAM®® community could benefit from GPU technology?

This group will focus in developing an All-Speed or Mach-uniform multiphase themofludic code using OpenFOAM® as its platform technology. Such development work has been ongoing for a couple of years but now with independence and special focus for Lean Premixed and Prevaporised (LPP) Gas Turbine combustion application.The code utilises a modified 8-equation Saurel-Abgrall (1999) multi-phase and multi-fluid model with a hybrid density-pressure based solver as in Xisto et al (2011).Improvements to attain more accurate EOS to capture some flow features such as flash evaporation of multicomponent fuels (JP8) is underway. A more challenging issue of predicting primary atomisation will be considered soon.

The purpose of this group is to bring together OpenFOAM® users in Australia and New Zealand.

Develop specifications for binary packages of OpenFOAM®, which are conform to each distribution policy.http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/Howto_create_binary_packageshttp://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/Installation#System_specific_tips_and_experiences

The purpose of this group is to bring together OpenFOAM® users in Brazil.

... related to the 'Stammtisch Mitte' in Germany

Coupling CFD and DEM codes with focus on harnessing existing DEM codes.

Welcome all the Chinese OpenFOAM® fans to this group

All the top-level framework making OpenFOAM® unique - models, specific boundary conditions, new utilities and solvers ...

The nuts and bolts of OpenFOAM®: underlying architecture, software engineering, basic operations

The aim of this group is to bring together FOAMers in Czech Republic. Already a few of us are gathered around Czech Technical University in Prague. All are welcome!

The founding of this group was discussed and decided on the OpenFOAM® Stammtisch Germany 'Mitte' on September 24th, 2010, in the 'hybrid RANS/LES' bof session.The aim of this working group is to get users and developers interested in Detached-Eddy Simulation (DES) together and achieve a correct DES implementation in OpenFOAM® and a common understanding of the method.Furthermore, the already established contacts, working groups and results required a common platform to be able to focus on our goals.Finally, testcases, best-practice guidelines and an improved documentation are needed.

Study and further development of dsmcFoam

The Dutch OpenFOAM® User Group has been created in 2010 and has had lively meetings twice a year ever since. Each meeting is attended by some 40 OpenFOAM® users working in the Netherlands. More information can be found on www.dutchopenfoamusers.nl.

This group is for anybody interested in simulating electrochemical systems such as batteries, fuel cells, capacitors etc. Hopefully we can share some tips on how to solve these highly nonlinear/coupled systems.

The working group focuses on the development of a robust and versatile multiphase solve based on the Euler-Euler multi-fluid approach.Current applications of interest are the simulation of bubble columns and dense gas-particle flows, with granular phases described by means of the kinetic theory approach and frictional models.Starting point of the development is the existing twoPhaseEulerFoam solver, which will be modified to improve its robustness and then generalized to deal with an arbitrary number of dispersed phases. Further development will include the addition of quadrature-based methods to deal with particle/bubble size distribution.

Natural Convection, Large Eddy Simulation, Bulding

Numerical simulation of fuel cells using OpenFOAM®

The purpose of this group is to bring together all OpenFOAM® users in the Gothenburg region. The group is inclusive in the sense that anyone who consider her/himself to be close to Gothenburg can join.

Heating Ventilating and Air Conditioning (HVAC)

This is a special interest group created initially on the 7th OpenFOAM® Workshop in Darmstadt to discuss:- HPC Installation/Compilation/Configuration of OF in HPC environments - Scalability using OF and its tools on large systems - Availability of large test cases to verify such large system installations or other HPC related advances in OF

Group for users from Hungary.

This group is for everyone who is interested in any kind of simulations regarding reciprocating internal combustion engines.

All about using IDEs for OpenFOAM® development and debugging in a faster and more comfortable way

Working Group for interFoam solver (sub-group of the SIG on Multiphase Flows).If anyone in the community has a problem with interFoam & would like to get solution for it, can join here and post their problems.Results will be published in this group and on meetings,e.g., at the Local User Group meeting "Stammtisch" in Germany.

Israel OpenFOAM® user group

This region includes the following states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas and Utah.

The LTFD research group is situated at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (COPPE/UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The group interest is on CFD code development using OpenFOAM® core. The development of codes follow the main LTFD research areas: Multiphase Flow, Population Balance & CFD, Viscoelastic Fluid Flow, High Performance Computing.

Developing MHD compressible flow solver

Local User Group for the Mid-Atlantic region of the USA. First meeting was held at Penn State University on March 27, 2010.

Local User Group for the midwest region of the USA.

For people who are working or are interested in the field of multiphase flow with phase change.

related to the "Stammtisch Nord" in Germany

A group for the alumnies of Summer School 2009

A group for attendees of the 2010 Summer School in Zagreb.

A group for all participants of NUMAP-FOAM Summer School 2011

All participants of the first year of the NUMAP-FOAM-Br Summer School are invited to join the group!Todos os participantes do primeiro ano da Escola de Verão Brasileira em Problemas Numéricos Aplicados usando OpenFOAM®® (NUMAP-FOAM-Br) estão convidados!

Regional openfoam user group in singapore, for the purpose of promoting the learning and usage of OpenFOAM® locally.

Welcome all Russian users!

Local user group for people in the region of Vienna

This is a forum focusing on the use of OF for built environment. Topics for discussion are, but not limited to, HVAC, Green Building, Wind Driven Rain, Fire & Smoke, Pollutants Dispersion, Blast, acoustic, and OF GUI for Building Engineering Simulation.

This group aims to promote the use of OpenFoam for general CFD applications, e.g Aerospace, Automobile, Ventilation, Electronic cooling, hydrodynamics(free surface) etc.We also hope to organize a OpeFoam Workshop here in Singapore in 2014.

This is a special interest group focuses on the use of OpenFoam for solving Marine, Offshore and Coaster Engineering and related problems.

Installation of the OpenFOAM® CFD toolbox

A local OpenFOAM® user group for Darmstadt

A local OpenFOAM® user group for Dresden.

Meshing and Mesh Conversion in the OpenFOAM® CFD toolbox.

Post-Processing using the OpenFOAM® CFD toolbox.

Pre-Processing in the OpenFOAM® CFD toolbox.

Running the OpenFOAM® CFD toolbox.