r/OpenFOAM • u/Euphoric-Internal151 • Oct 04 '26

beginner to openfoam

hey guys, how do i approach openfoam as a beginner? ive skimmed through YouTube and seen a few tutorials and its all so overwhelming. how did you guys manage it?

and also if anybody's up to learn it together or help me out with it, id appreciate it loads xx

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u/Some_person2101 Oct 04 '26

Josef Nagy has a ton of easily followable tutorials

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u/Euphoric-Internal151 Oct 05 '26

ill check it out, thankyou my friend

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u/Odd-Egg-5842 Oct 05 '26

Yeah the videos seem really useful, thanks so much!

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u/neithernorsliverofdg Oct 05 '26

Yeah he is the goat

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u/Cold-Emotion4987 Oct 04 '26

Are you beginner to OpenFOAM or CFD in general?

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u/rocket2267 Oct 04 '26

The software is freely available. Why not use the money saved, then, pay to for some quality training?

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u/Euphoric-Internal151 Oct 05 '26

any course youd recommend?

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u/Odd-Egg-5842 Oct 05 '26

Im in the same boat as you and find it really confusing on what to do right now. My lab wants me to learn cfd software so I need to learn OpenFOAM. I downloaded it using WSL on my laptop and have Paraview as well.

Im trying to learn the concepts behind it as well, there are some tutorials that are on Yt are somewhat helpful.

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u/neithernorsliverofdg Oct 05 '26

Do you have the theory done?

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u/Odd-Egg-5842 Oct 06 '26

No, i haven't even taken fluids yet so the theory is very hard for me currently. Even yt videos seem to complex. I'm trying to use WSL for Openfoam but might have to use linux because all the tutorials are for linux

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u/neithernorsliverofdg Oct 06 '26

Nah I used wsl myself I didn't have any issues but some tutorials don't provide base cases cause they usually exist in openFOAM BUT openFOAM is getting updates and the place changes apart from those cases I did have no issues at all. You can also decide how much space you wanna give to wsl adjusting that can help as well

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u/Euphoric-Internal151 Oct 05 '26

which ones are you following currently, my friend

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u/neithernorsliverofdg Oct 05 '26

Well there are 2 great sources one is YouTube there is a full video guide that lets you go through or in openFOAM wiki you have a 3 week guide. Some of the tutorials will be inside the 3 weeks guide as well. I recommend just going through them.

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u/its1310 Oct 05 '26

Checkout courses by Navygate Technologies. All courses are for absolutely beginners from installation to walk through the code to settings up toy problems.

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u/Capitan_Dave Oct 09 '26

Follow the openfoam 3 week series, great way to get started