descriptionOfficial OpenCFD patch releases for OpenFOAM 1.5.x
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OpenFOAM README for version 1.5.x

1 Copyright

OpenFOAM is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. See the file COPYING in this directory, for a description of the GNU General Public License terms under which you can copy the files.

2 System requirements

OpenFOAM is developed and tested on Linux, but should work with other Unix style systems. To check your system setup, execute the foamSystemCheck script in the bin/ directory of the OpenFOAM installation. If no problems are reported, proceed to "3. Installation"; otherwise contact your system administrator.

If the user wishes to run OpenFOAM in 32/64-bit mode they should consult the section "Running OpenFOAM in 32-bit mode".

3 Installation

The environment variable settings are contained in files in an etc/ directory in the OpenFOAM release. e.g. in

  • $HOME/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-<VERSION>/etc/
  • where <VERSION> corresponds to '1.5.x'
  • EITHER, if running bash or ksh (if in doubt type 'echo $SHELL'), source the etc/bashrc file by adding the following line to the end of your $HOME/.bashrc file:
    • . $HOME/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-<VERSION>/etc/bashrc

    Then update the environment variables by sourcing the $HOME/.bashrc file by typing in the terminal:

    • . $HOME/.bashrc
  • OR, if running tcsh or csh, source the etc/cshrc file by adding the following line to the end of your $HOME/.cshrc file:
    • source $HOME/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-<VERSION>/etc/cshrc

    Then update the environment variables by sourcing the $HOME/.cshrc file by typing in the terminal:

    • source $HOME/.cshrc

4 Building from Sources

You will first need to compile or obtain a recent version of gcc (we recomend gcc-4.3.?) for your platform, which may be obtained from http://gcc.gnu.org/.

Install the compiler in $WM_PROJECT_INST_DIR/ThirdParty/gcc-<GCC_VERSION>/platforms/$WM_ARCH$WM_COMPILER_ARCH/ and change the gcc version number in $WM_PROJECT_DIR/etc/settings.sh and $WM_PROJECT_DIR/etc/settings.csh appropriately and finally update the environment variables as in section 3.

Now go to the top-level source directory $WM_PROJECT_DIR and execute the top-level build script './Allwmake'. In principle this will build everything, but if problems occur with the build order it may be necessary to update the environment variables and re-execute 'Allwmake'. If you experience difficulties with building the source-pack, or your platform is not currently supported, please contact <enquiries@OpenCFD.co.uk> to negotiate a support contract and we will do the port and maintain it for future releases.

5 Further installation information

Consult the README file supplied with the source pack:

  • $HOME/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-<VERSION>/README

6 Documentation

8 Reporting Bugs in OpenFOAM

9 Running OpenFOAM in 32-bit mode on 64-bit machines

Linux users with a 64-bit machine may install either the OpenFOAM 32-bit version (linux) or the OpenFOAM 64-bit version (linux64), or both. The 64-bit is the default mode on a 64-bit machine. To use an installed 32-bit version, the user must set the environment variable WM_ARCH_OPTION to 32 before sourcing the etc/bashrc (or etc/cshrc) file.

Date: 26 August 2008

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2009-08-12 mattijsintersection with triangle plane for missmaster
2009-07-24 mattijsincorrect comment
2009-07-22 mattijsstabilise expansion calculation for if no point on arc
2009-07-16 mattijscorrected mapping
2009-07-09 mattijsfix face direction
2009-06-24 mattijsreinstate stitchMesh functionality
2009-06-09 henryMerge branch 'master' of ssh://opencfd@repo.or.cz/srv...
2009-06-09 henryBug fix supplied by Niklas Nordin:
2009-06-09 andycorrection to d4edb38234db8268907f04836d49bb93461b8a88
2009-06-08 andyMerge branch 'master' of ssh://opencfd@repo.or.cz/srv...
2009-06-08 henryGeneralised to support static pressure as well as ...
2009-06-08 henryMinor correction.
2009-06-08 henryAdded support for compressible and multiphase momentum...
2009-06-08 andyadded matrix correction operation
2009-06-08 andyadded new constructor - construct with given size
2009-06-08 andyadding scalarIOList
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