Welcome

Welcome on the registration website of the Introduction to OpenFOAM on 17 March 2025 organized by the TU Delft Institute for Computational Science and Engineering (DCSE).

This course aims at MSc/PhD students and industry staff members who like to get familiar with OpenFOAM for fluid dynamics applications. The course is intended for beginners with no previous experience in OpenFOAM, however, the following entry-level skills are expected:

• Basic fluid mechanics concepts (e.g. Navier–Stokes equations, Reynolds and Mach numbers, boundary layer, turbulent flows)
• Basic knowledge of CFD (e.g. finite volume method, discretization error, stability, convergence)
• Basic knowledge of Linux terminal

Study goals:

After the course participants can:

• Identify available solvers for different application fields
• Recognize basic code structure
• Generate unstructured and structured meshes (blockMesh/SnappyHexMesh)
• Set up and run basic CFD simulations  
• Visualize results (Paraview)
• Adapt existing tutorials for advanced applications.

Teachers

Sander van Zuijlen (AE), Uri Peker(DynaFlow Research), Senne Hemelaar (DynaFlow Research), and Geert Keetels (ME)

Education method:

Presentations followed by tutorials. The course will be organized on campus.

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We look forward to welcoming you in Delft,

The organization committee