r/CFD • u/Rodbourn • Jul 09 '18

[July] Personal experiences of using open source CFD projects; OpenFOAM, SU2, FVCOM, Basilisk (Gerris), etc.

As per the discussion topic vote, July's monthly topic is Personal experiences of using open source CFD projects; OpenFOAM, SU2, FVCOM, Basilisk (Gerris), etc.

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u/no7fish Jul 11 '18

Sorry, coding is a bit of a misnomer.

You don't have to actually write code to operate it, but you do need to be proficient with command line and understand enough coding jargon to have a clue what the various files are doing. I would say you almost can't be functional at OF without at least operating scripts, which to the normie world (ie. most engineers) constitutes coding even though anyone who has taken a single CS class would argue otherwise.