<div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 22, 2012 9:16 PM, "Nathan Moore" <<a href="mailto:ntmoore@gmail.com" target="_blank">ntmoore@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">I<div><br></div><div>The only open-source cfd model I found in a 5 minute google search was openFOAM - is that a more or less standard solution for an airflow problem like this? </div><div><br></div><div>
Any replies would be interesting.</div>
<div><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br>Yes, OpenFoam is the canonical open source CFD code.<br>I have found ti to be a bit of a bear to install - a particular version of OpenFoam will depend on the particular version of GCC used to create it. So you install a gcc in your build tree, then build all the libraries and utilities that OpenFoam depends on, then build OpenFoam.<br>
<br>If you want to try out some things ther is an interesting Live CD with CAD, Finite Element and CFD codes. Plus Paraview to look at the lovely pictures at the end:<br> </div><a href="http://www.caelinux.com/">http://www.caelinux.com/</a></div>