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OpenFOAM essential course
Rating: 3.6 out of 5(60 ratings)
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OpenFOAM essential course

Learn how to simulate CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) problems in OpenFOAM. From scratch and step by step!
Created byDigital Courses
Last updated 1/2026
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What you'll learn

  • You will be able to solve a CFD in OpenFOAM, understanding all its structure, process and physical meaning
  • You will understand the logic of OpenFOAM to conduct a complete problem step by step and from scratch, for beginners
  • You will become familiar with the use of the commands to navigate and configure all aspects of the problem
  • You will be able to understand in detail what they are for and how they affect the directories "System", "0" and "constant" and how to configure them for your own case
  • You will know how to create, modify and understand the main files in the directories, without the need to know programming or C ++ language
  • You will be able to define the appropriate meshing, using the essential and basic tools of OpenFOAM
  • You will understand the configuration of the boundary and initial conditions, to be able to correctly carry out the simulation
  • You will perform the appropriate post-processing in Paraview software to correctly visualize and interpret the solution in OpenFOAM
  • You will conduct complete simulations of great variety: incompressible flow, compressible flow, heat transfer, multi-phase flow...
  • You will know how to indentify a particular solver in OpenFOAM to simulate your own problems

Course content

5 sections • 14 lectures • 7h 19m total length

  • Introduction to OpenFOAM and its features13:14

    Explore OpenFOAM, an open source code that solves partial differential equations with various boundary conditions, and offers preprocessing, mesh, and post-processing workflows.

  • How to download and install OpenFOAM for different Operating systems44:29

    Learn how to download and install OpenFOAM on Windows 10 using Windows subsystem for Linux with Ubuntu via Microsoft Store, featuring a Bash shell and open source C++ core.

  • First steps in OpenFOAM20:37

    Verify OpenFOAM installation by checking the logo, explore tutorials by application area, and learn to select the right incompressible or multiphase solver and run simulations via terminal commands.

  • Detail description about 0, constant and system folder in OpenFOAM36:02

    Explore the OpenFOAM case structure, detailing the 0, constant, and system folders, their physical significance, and how they define initial conditions, boundary conditions, and simulation setup.

  • How to run a basic simulation in OpenFOAM31:12

    Copy and edit a tutorial to set up an OpenFOAM test case, including transport properties. Mesh with blockMesh, set initial conditions, and run the simulation in incompressible or compressible mode.

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Requirements

  • Having some basic notion of engineering and fluid mechanics
  • It can help to have knowledge about programming and about handling the commands, but if this is not the case, don't worry, I'll explain everything from scratch!
  • A decent computer to install OpenFOAM (you will learn it on the second class) and above all, a desire to learn!

Description

This comprehensive course is designed for students, engineers, researchers... to be able to use OpenFOAM from scratch to conduct CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) in a simple and practical way. Never mind if you have no experience in CFD or OpenFOAM, you will be equally capable of understanding everything and you will finish the course with mastery of the subject.

After several years working as an Industrial Engineer, I have realized that CFD is one of the most powerful tools that exist in engineering and is really sought. And in addition, the demand is increasing. Knowing how to carry out this type of simulation can give you many job opportunities and many economic benefits.

And as if that were not enough, solving these simulations in OpenFOAM will offer you even more advantages, since it is an open source software that is not subject to licenses (it is free) and that can offer equally optimal or even more accurate results than commercial programs. For this reason, in just a few years it has become one of the leaders in the sector and one of the programs most sought by companies in the figure of the engineer.

The big problem has always been the complexity to learn that it requires, since its understanding is not easy. In this course I try to facilitate this entire learning and improvement process, and you will be able to carry out and understand your own flow problems in a short time, as well as their physical sense and the logic of the procedure, thanks to the step-by-step and detailed resolution of great variety of complete on-demand problems in which you will master the main and different physical applications of OpenFOAM and CFD:

  • Incompressible flow

  • Compressible flow

  • Heat transfer

  • Multi-phase flow

  • You will understand how to select the correct solver and setting your own simulations

In other words, what I want is to contribute my grain of sand and teach you all those things that I would have liked to know in my beginnings and that nobody told me. In this way, you will be able to learn to solve different types of problems quickly and make versatile and complete use of OpenFOAM. And if that were not enough, I will be at your disposal and I will answer all the questions you want in the shortest possible time.

Learning OpenFOAM has never been easier. What are you waiting to join?

Who this course is for:

  • Engineering or science students/professionals who need to learn from scratch or improve on OpenFOAM to solve CFD problems
  • Advanced students, PhD students or researchers who need to better understand all OpenFOAM logic to solve CFD in their projects

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