OpenFOAM - A Computational Fluid Dynamics program

Saku · Post by **Saku** » Sun Jan 09, 2005 5:07 pm

Hi!

I just stumbled over this very nice Computational Fluid Dynamics program called FOAM which has just become open source there for called: OpenFOAM

It can be found here: http://www.opencfd.co.uk/openfoam/

It might be useful for IRRLICHT or maybe not, I havent looked into it yet and im not very good at coding C++.
I really have no idea if it can be used for anything but i just thought i would mention it since it looks very nice!

Enjoy!

/Saku

MikeR · Post by **MikeR** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 11:34 am

It will may work out of the box, and for uses?? Read on:

The OpenFOAM (Field Operation and Manipulation) software package can simulate anything from complex fluid flows involving chemical reactions, turbulence and heat transfer, to solid dynamics, electromagnetics and the pricing of financial options.

The core technology of OpenFOAM is a flexible set of efficient C++ modules. These are used to build an archive of: solvers, to simulate specific problems in engineering mechanics; utilities, to perform pre- and post-processing tasks ranging from simple data manipulations to visualisation and mesh processing; libraries, to create toolboxes that are accessible to the solvers/utilities, such as libraries of physical models.

While OpenFOAM can be used as a standard simulation package using the standard solvers, utilities and libraries, it offers much more. Since it is supplied a suite of C++ libraries, mostly with source code, users have total freedom to create or modify a solver, utility or library

I can think of a lot of uses for this.

hansmbakker · Post by **hansmbakker** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 7:38 pm

i think so, too, and i recommend posting it in the irrlichtnx forums so that it can be included or something

Saku · Post by **Saku** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 10:37 pm

You are welcome to post it at the NX++ forum. I didnt since I don't know the address.. Im struggling enought with the normal IRRLICHT not even daring looking at NX++

bal · Post by **bal** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 5:36 pm

http://www.irrlichtnx.mmdevel.de/

NX++ isn't really harder than the normal Irrlicht. It has more options and features, yes, and the event system is totally different (but much better imo).

Jono · Post by **Jono** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 10:31 am

Wow!
I don't think i have ever seen a game with realistically simulated water. Not even my precious hl2.
Do any games have it implemented?

Jono · Post by **Jono** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 11:38 am

Last summer we wrote about the future of Windows graphics. Not many specifics are known about the Windows Graphics Foundation architecture coming with the Longhorn operating system. But we think we know one major thing about the future graphics API from Microsoft—what some are calling DirectX 10. It appears that it will unify the vertex and pixel shaders into a generic shader language, where graphics cards would perform certain sets of operations on certain types of data, but these wouldn't necessarily have to be defined as verticies or pixels. In fact, some work has already been done to use graphics cards as general processors to perform complex calculations like fluid dynamics. The next generation of DirectX, or Windows Graphics Foundation, or whatever it ends up being called, should make that kind of work more common. The bidirectional nature of PCI Express will make this practical, too

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1 ... 953,00.asp

Cool

Fluid dynamics might become more commonplace.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat Jan 22, 2005 10:46 pm

bal wrote:and the event system is totally different (but much better imo).

looks like is copied from the Java Swing