Computational Fluid Dynamics

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This is currently a work in progress, content suggestions are highly appreciated. The goal is for this post to become a helpful summary of all important things related to CFD.

Resources:

(please suggest other good resources - journals, videos or yt channels, courses paid or free, articles, books, docs, wikis, forums, etc.)

1. CFD Online: One of the best sites for CFD

   • Wiki

   • Forums

   • Main page

Tools

(M=macOS, W=Windows,L=Linux)

All-in-one:

• ANSYS Fluent (via ANSYS Workbench) (Paid) (L,W,M): very widely used CFD software

• SimFlow, a GUI for OpenFOAM (Paid with a limited free version) (L,W)

• dicehub (Paid) (online): cloud-based platform for CFD simulations

• COMSOL Multiphysics (Paid) (L, M, W)

• SimScale (Paid with a limited free version) (L, M, W, online): cloud-based simulation platform

• STAR-CCM+ (Paid) (L,W): commercial CFD software from Siemens

Note: A lot of the open source tools below integrate well with each other. So they can together form a good free, open source alternative to the above tools.

CAD:

• FreeCAD (FOSS) (L, M, W)

  See also: Cfd Workbench, Installing CfdOF, CfdOF

• SolidWorks (Paid) (W)

Meshers:

• HyperMesh (Paid) (L, W)

• gmsh (FOSS) (L, M, W)

  Wikipedia

• Salome (FOSS) (L, W)

Solvers:

• OpenFOAM: a powerful command-line tool for CFD (FOSS) (L,M,W)

• SU2 (FOSS) (L, M, W) - An open-source suite for multiphysics simulation

Post-processing:

• ParaView (FOSS) (L, M, W): A powerful open-source application for visualizing and analyzing scientific data; commonly used for CFD results.

• VisIt (FOSS) (L, M, W)