Getting Started with CFD

I am interested in learning Open Foam and other CFD tools, and wondering what resources were out there to get started.

A bit of background: Aerospace Engineer by degree, have used ANSYS Fluent wayyy back in the day, but have been more focused on structural design and analysis career-wise. I do have some experience with 2D analysis of airfoil sections in XFOIL, and use CAD daily for work.

I'd like to try a number of basic runs and learn Open Foam's process, and eventually work up to being able to do a full vehicle model (I do have access to CAD and most of the day job is working in various CAD systems).

Always looking to learn, and once I get things set up and start trying different things, I'm sure I'll be posting here and asking lots of questions.

You can try out Freecad, they've got some level of integration with various solvers.

Honsch said:

You can try out Freecad, they've got some level of integration with various solvers.

I  mean, I should probably learn just to learn, but I've got access to CATIA, Solidworks, etc. 

OpenFOAM seems to be Lunix-based so getting the win10 integration will be interesting. I'll dig into trying to install things after work.

Look up Josef Nagy on youtube. He has a good set of videos to get you up and running with OpenFoam specifically. Since you have some background, it may be a little slow, but the OpenFoam specific stuff will get you rolling.

stafford1500 said:

Look up Josef Nagy on youtube. He has a good set of videos to get you up and running with OpenFoam specifically. Since you have some background, it may be a little slow, but the OpenFoam specific stuff will get you rolling.

Thank you! Anything helps, and so far the install bit is a bit convoluted with the Linux on windows, bash terminal stuff. I used to know a lot more, installed Ubuntu on pretty much every PC I built during high school, but it's been a while.