Faculty Development Program on OpenFOAM for CFD

Introduction

OpenFOAM (Open Source Field Operation and Manipulation) is an open source CFD software package developed by the OpenFOAM team at ESI and distributed by the OpenFOAM Foundation. OpenFOAM is a CFD toolbox, written in C++ and these C++ libraries are used to create executables, known as applications. The OpenFOAM distribution contains numerous solvers and utilities covering a wide range of CFD problems. Open source Field Operation And Manipulation, or OpenFOAM, as popularly known, is an Open source Computational Fluid Dynamics software. It’s a finite volume based CFD software where the toolbox written in C++ allows for the development of customized numerical solvers, and pre-/post-processing utilities for the solution of computational fluid dynamics or continuum mechanics problems. OpenFOAM is an open source alternative to commercial software, such as Fluent. As OpenFOAM is open source, it is widely used in the industry. In India, OpenFOAM is used in organisations, such as ISRO, BARC, and DRDO labs, apart from the industry.

The FOSSEE (Free/Libre and Open Source Software for Education) project at IIT Bombay (https://fossee.in) has been promoting Moodle, and other FLOSS, such as OpenFOAM, Scilab, Python, eSim, Osdag, OpenModelica, R, Drupal and Linux, and open source hardware, such as Arduino and OpenPLC. The FOSSEE Project is funded by NMEICT, Ministry of Education, Govt. of India.

Methodology of the Workshop

The workshop will be for 4 days, 6 hrs of lectures/hands on sessions on each day. The workshop will be conducted using a mix of live lectures by Faculty Members from renowned institutes of India and abroad, pre-recorded spoken tutorial videos with side by side hands-on learning.

There will be an opportunity of live interaction with the team members and Faculty Partners of FOSSEE, IIT Bombay, during the workshop. 

All participants will get access to the Spoken Tutorials on OpenFOAM, copies of our slides, video recording of all lectures, and about 80 case studies solved using OpenFOAM. Using these, all who are interested in conducting OpenFOAM workshops by themselves can do so. They will also get exposed to the collaborative content creation activity of the FOSSEE Project.

Benefits of the Workshop

On successful completion of the workshop,participants will be able to 

• Learn fundamentals of CFD using OpenFOAM 
• Learn to simulate problem in OpenFOAM 
• Learn essentials of post-processing 

Certificate for attending the 4 day OpenFOAM workshop.

Course content

The objective of the course is to train students/college teachers/design professionals to solve computational fluid dynamics (CFD) problems while understanding the intricacies involved in such simulations through a robust at the same time easy to use CFD tool box.

At the end of this workshop, participants will:

• learn how to set up, view the files and run a case in OpenFOAM 
• become familiar with pre-processing tools and will be able to generate mesh, set the boundary & initial conditions, learn simulation control etc.
• learn how to plot and visualise the results in ParaView.
• learn how to use a turbulence model in a simulation and to compare the results from a simulation using different turbulence models.
• learn how to apply higher-order numerical schemes in CFD simulations.
• learn to simulate multiphase flows.
• learn about Dynamic meshing.
• learn to add a scalar transport equation in a solver.

Teaching Faculty

• Prof. Chandan Bose- University of Birmingham
• Prof. Manaswita Bose- IIT Bombay
• Prof. Janani Srree Murallidharan- IIT Bombay
• Prof. Harikrishnan S- Cochin University of Science and Technology
• Prof. Tushar Chourushi- MIT Pune
• Prof. Dhiraj Garg- Shiv Nadar University
• Prof. Naren PR- SASTRA University
• Prof. Manimaran- VIT Chennai
• Team members from FOSSEE, IIT Bombay

Who Should Attend

• The OpenFOAM workshop will be useful for below discipline:

  • Mechanical Engineering 
  • Chemical Engineering 
  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Energy Science Engineering
  • Metallurgy
  • Applied Physics
  • Applied Mathematics

Duration and Venue

4 day workshop starting from 10 June to 13 June 2025. Every day, there will be a theory and an online interactive/ hands-on session for 6 hours.

Criteria for Certification

Participation certificates, in an electronic form, will be provided to all participants after successful completion of the workshop. 

Please note- Certificates will be awarded to the participants only after clearing a minimum attendance criteria of the workshop. The attendance criteria will be as per the norms of FOSSEE, IIT Bombay.

Course Fee

The workshop is completely free of cost for the participants.

How to Apply

The application will be strictly online, and no other mode of application will be entertained. 

Please register yourself <here>

The registration form will be available until 6th June 2025, 4.00 pm.

Accommodation

Not Applicable

Note

As the workshop is conducted online, it is mandatory to have a laptop and a working internet connection with good bandwidth.

Technical Requirements:

• OpenFOAM 9
• Blender 3.6 LTS
• Venturial Blender Addon

Following operating systems can be used for installing OpenFOAM:

• Windows 10: 32/64-bit (Requires Ubuntu installed via WSL).
• Linux: 64-bit x86 Ubuntu 22.04 

Instructions to install Blender 3.6 LTS and Venturial Addon can be found in this link: https://github.com/FOSSEE/venturial/releases/download/v0.1.0/User.Guide.pdf

Recommended Prerequisites:

• Blender 3.0 Beginner Tutorial - Part 1
• Blender 3.0 Beginner Tutorial Part 2: Editing
• Candidates are recommended to have an external mouse with a scroll wheel if they wish to follow along during the GUI Demonstration

Contact Us:

• Any queries related to OpenFOAM can be asked through contact-cfd@fossee.in.
• Any other general queries about the workshop can be sent to eoutreach@cse.iitb.ac.in

Address For Communication

Ms. Priti Ghuikar - Dod
Assistant Project Manager
Department of CSE, Kanwal Rekhi Building,
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay,
Mumbai - 400 076.
Email: eoutreach@cse.iitb.ac.in
Website - www.it.iitb.ac.in/nmeict