This is an online training, people can join via internet from all around the globe. Every day the training will start at 9am CET (Paris summer time).

Topics Covered are:

• The OpenFOAM software distribution
• Background in the use of Linux/UNIX
• OpenFOAM applications and how to use them
• Basic meshing with block structured mesh generator
• Field initialisation and boundary conditions
• Selecting physical models and setting parameters
• Solution monitoring and control
• plotting residuals
• plotting continuity errors
• Mesh conversion (example from Ansys)
• Boundary conditions
• Reynolds-averaged simulation for turbulence
• setting BC for turbulence model
• wall functions
• Post-processing tools and visualisation
• Mesh manipulation
• Running in parallel
• Creating animations
• Introduction to C++ and its use in OpenFOAM
• Code structure and compilation
• Code walk through for a simple utility
• The important classes in OpenFOAM
• The finite volume method and PISO/SIMPLE/PIMPLE algorithms
• Post-processing with Function Objects