OpenFOAM® Journal

About the Journal

The OpenFOAM^® Journal aims at publishing works related to the OpenFOAM® computational library, with focus on the benefit for the OpenFOAM® community, is free to publish and open-access. Each publication has an associated discussion forum, to increase the interaction between the readers and the authors, and the overall impact of the contributions.

The journal has a strong focus on reproducibility. Authors are required to present their results in a reproducible form, preferably by sharing codes and case setups used to generate their results, or alternatively by describing numerical settings, solver modifications, etc., in a sufficient level of detail.

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Help Shape the Future of the OpenFOAM Journal – What Matters Most to You as an Author?

2025-06-04

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Call for Submissions: Share Your OpenFOAM Research with the Community!

2025-05-27

New paper titled "Testing Strategies for OpenFOAM Projects" from Gärtner et al.

2025-04-29

New paper titled "3D Solver for Viscous Fluids to Simulate Lava Flows" from Biagioli et al.

2025-04-29

Current Issue

Vol. 5: OpenFOAM® Journal 2025

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The 5^th volume is now open for submissions and will contain all the papers accepted for publication during 2025.

Published: 2025-01-01

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3D Solver for Viscous Fluids to Simulate Lava Flows

Elisa Biagioli, Mattia de' Michieli Vitturi, Fabio Di Benedetto, Margherita Polacci

90-114
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Development of an OpenFOAM Solver to Investigate the Dynamic Absorption and Desorption Processes in Metal-hydrides

Christoph Ulrich, Maximilian Richard Ziegler, Daniel Felix Szambien, Christian Buhl, Roland Scharf

59-89
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Analysis of Coupling Strategies for Conjugate Heat Transfer Problems

Emad Tandis, Philip Cardiff, Ali Ashrafizadeh

38-58
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An Open-Source Framework for Modeling the Evolution of Fiber Orientation

Bruno Ramoa, Ricardo Costa, Francisco Chinesta, João Miguel Nóbrega

17-37
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Modelling Thermo-Electrohydrodynamic Convection in Rotating Spherical Shell Using OpenFOAM®

Yann Gaillard, Peter S.B. Szabo, Vadim Travnikov, Christoph Egbers

1-16
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Technical Notes

Testing Strategies for OpenFOAM Projects

Jan Wilhelm Gärtner, Gregor Olenik, Mohammed Elwardi Fadeli, Lukas Petermann, Andreas Kronenburg, Holger Marschall, Hartwig Anzt

115-130
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Volume 4 (2024) Contents

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lcs4Foam – An OpenFOAM Function Object to Compute Lagrangian Coherent Structures

Constantin Habes, Alexandra von Kameke, Mohammed Elwardi Fadeli, Holger Marschall

118-131
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Implementation of a VoF solver with phase change for the simulation of internal cavitation and droplet breakup in injectors

Bjørn Christian Dueholm, Jesper de Claville Christiansen, Benny Endelt, Nikolaj Kristensen, Jakob Hærvig

62-78
A Modified Overset Method in OpenFOAM for Simultaneous Motion and Deformation: A Case Study of a Flexible Flapping Foil

Karim Ahmed, Ahmed A. Hamada, Ludovic Chatellier, Mirjam Furth

41-61
Comparison of CFD-DEM and MP-PIC in the Simulation of Metal Powder Conveying for Laser Metal Deposition

Lorenzo Pedrolli, Beatriz Achiaga Menor, Inger Martinez de Arenaza, Alejandro López

26-40
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Validation of High Speed Reactive Flow Solver in OpenFOAM with Detailed Chemistry

Vigneshwaran Sankar, Karl P. Chatelain, Josué Melguizo-Gavilanes, Deanna A. Lacoste

1-25
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18th OpeFOAM® Workshop - 2023

Implementation of a Lag Elliptic-Blending model for RANS equations in OpenFOAM

Eleonora Gajetti, Luca Marocco, Gianluca Boccardo, Antonio Buffo, Laura Savoldi

105-117
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Implementing moving object capability in a two-phase Eulerian model for sediment transport applications

Eduard Puig Montella, Cyrille Bonamy, Julien Chauchat, Tian-Jian Hsu

79-104
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Volume 3 (2023) Contents
Full Papers
- A Cyclic Heat Transfer Solver for OpenFOAM
  
  Michael Coe, Daniel Holland
  
  225-251
  
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- TwoPhaseFlow: A Framework for Developing Two Phase Flow Solvers in OpenFOAM
  
  Henning Scheufler, Johan Roenby
  
  200-224
  
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- Sensitivity Analysis of an Unsteady Flow Around a Pitching Airfoil
  
  Javier Añez, Hakim Hamdani, Julien Reveillon, Benjamin Duret, Francois-Xavier Demoulin
  
  177-199
  
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- IKA-FLOW : A Flexible Body Overset Mesh Implementation for Fish Swimming
  
  Michael Coe, Stefanie Gutschmidt
  
  75-119
  
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- Extending the isoAdvector Geometric VOF Method to Flows in Porous Media
  
  Konstantinos Missios, Niels Jacobsen, Kasper Moeller, Johan Roenby
  
  66-74
  
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  Discussion Forum
  
  Source Code and Case Files
- Hybrid LES/RANS Simulations of a 90° Pipe Bend Using Different CFD Solvers
  
  Ann-Kathrin Ekat, Andreas Weissenbrunner, Martin Straka, Thomas Eichler, Kilian Oberleithner
  
  49-65
  
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  Case files
- Open-source Computational Model for Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells
  
  Norbert Weber, Leon Knüpfer, Steven B. Beale, Werner Lehnert, Uwe Reimer, Shidong Zhang, Paloma Ferreira-Aparicio, Antonio M. Chaparro
  
  26-48
  
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- OpenFOAM-preCICE: Coupling OpenFOAM with External Solvers for Multi-Physics Simulations
  
  Gerasimos Chourdakis, David Schneider, Benjamin Uekermann
  
  1-25
  
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  Abstract Video
Technical Notes
- Modular Framework for the Solution of Boundary-coupled Multiphysics Problems
  
  Gabriel St-Onge, Mathieu Olivier
  
  120-145
  
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- Verification and Validation of the Spalart Allmaras Model with Rotation and Curvature Correction for Incompressible and Compressbile Flows
  
  Michael Alletto
  
  159-176
  
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16th OpenFOAM® Workshop - 2021
- Towards the Numerical Modelling of Residual Seabed Liquefaction Using OpenFOAM
  
  Ranjith khumar Shanmugasundaram, Henrik Rusche, Christian Windt, Özgür Kirca, Mutlu Sumer, Nils Goseberg
  
  94-115
  
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  A Coupled Actuator Line and Finite Element Analysis Tool
  
  Pal Schmitt, Desmond Robinson
  
  81-93
  
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  Artificial Compressibility with Riemann Solvers: Convergence of Limiters on Unstructured Meshes
  
  Shannon Leakey, Vassilis Glenis, Caspar Hewett
  
  31-47
  
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  Modeling Convective Heat Transfer of Air in a Data Center Using OpenFOAM Evaluation of the Boussinesq Buoyancy Approximation
  
  Henrik Barestrand, Anna-Lena Ljung, Jon Summers, Staffan Lundström
  
  146-158
  
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  Discussion Forum
  
  Volume 2 (2022) Contents
  
  Full Papers
  
  A General Approach for Running Python Codes in OpenFOAM Using an Embedded PYBIND11 Python Interpreter
  
  Simon Rodriguez, Philip Cardiff
  
  166-182
  
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  Implementation of a Modified Lid Driven Cavity in OpenFOAM
  
  Gavin Tabor
  
  62-80
  
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  Discussion Forum
  
  An Integrated OpenFOAM Membrane Fluid-Structure Interaction Solver
  
  Simon Wagner, Manuel Münsch, Antonio Delgado
  
  48-61
  
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  Comparison of Overset Mesh with Morphing Mesh: Flow Over a Forced Oscillating and Freely Oscillating 2D Cylinder
  
  Michael Alletto
  
  13-30
  
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  Discussion Forum
  
  A Head Loss Pressure Boundary Condition for Hydraulic Systems
  
  Jonathan Fahlbeck, Håkan Nilsson, Saeed Salehi
  
  1-12
  
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  Abstract Video
  
  Review Papers
  
  A Review on the Modelling of Wave-Structure Interactions Based on OpenFOAM
  
  Luofeng Huang, Yuzhu Li, Daniela Benites-Munoz, Christian Windt Windt, Anna Feichtner, Sasan Tavakoli, Josh Davidson, Ruben Paredes, Tadea Quintuna, Edward Ransley, Marco Colombo, Minghao Li, Philip Cardiff, Gavin Tabor
  
  116-142
  
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  Discussion Forum
  
  Technical Notes
  
  A Semi-Automatic Approach Based on the Method of Manufactured Solutions to Assess the Convergence Order in OpenFOAM
  
  Bruno Ramoa, Ricardo Costa, Francisco Chinesta, J. Miguel Nóbrega
  
  148-165
  
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  rom.js/cfd.xyz: An open-source framework for generating and visualizing parametric CFD results
  
  Dr. Peña-Monferrer, Dr. Diaz-Marin
  
  143-148
  
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  Discussion Forum
  
  Volume 1 (2021) Contents
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  OpenFOAM for Francis Turbine Transients
  
  Saeed Salehi, Håkan Nilsson
  
  47-61
  
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  Abstract Video
  
  Discussion Forum
  
  Case files and source code
  
  A Sequential Inverse Heat Conduction Problem in OpenFOAM
  
  Jan Bohacek, Jan Kominek, Alexander Vakhrushev, Ebrahim Karimi-Sibaki, Taewoo Lee
  
  27-46
  
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  Open-Source CFD Analysis of Nasal Flows
  
  Luka Balatinec, Tessa Uroić, Hrvoje Jasak
  
  2-26
  
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  Discussion Forum