

The project operates through a network of trust between the individuals, where greater authority is given to contributors who consistently produce high quality work and demonstrate long term commitment.Ĭontributions are made under the OpenFOAM Contributor Agreement (to facilitate enforcement of the free, open source licence), signed either by the individual, or by the organisation that employs them. OpenFOAM is developed and maintained by individuals who contribute their work to the project, with the support and consent of the companies that employ them.

The packages for Ubuntu can be installed directly on MS Windows using the Windows Subsystem for Linux.


The current version is 10. In 2014, the development line of OpenFOAM, known as “OpenFOAM-dev” was released publicly on GitHub. Since then, OpenFOAM has continued to be managed and developed with new versions being released to the public each year. OpenFOAM was created by Henry Weller in 1989 under the name “FOAM” and was released open source as “OpenFOAM” by Henry Weller, Chris Greenshields and Mattijs Janssens in December 2004. The GPL gives users the freedom to modify and redistribute the software and a guarantee of continued free use, within the terms of the licence. OpenFOAM is the leading free, open source software for computational fluid dynamics (CFD), owned by the OpenFOAM Foundation and distributed exclusively under the General Public Licence (GPL). OpenFOAM is the leading free, open source software for computational fluid dynamics (CFD).
