Can I use openfoam

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I would like to use openfoam (http://www.opencfd.co.uk/openfoam/) but only if I can get blender modles in and liquid meshes out. My school’s IT clerk prity much gave me a few old computers so I would like it if someone would gide me through the proses of instaling linux, openFoam, geting it to use them all together(if it can pe done),instaling blender and any other apps I nead for useing openFoam.

ps. I have never done any networking/distriuted computing before and i’m dot a real coputer wizerd (yet):slight_smile:

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When I said “geting it to use them all together(if it can pe done)” I ment getting openFoam to use all the computers.

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Use ubuntu, just because it’s probably one of the easiest to install (and you can use the live cd to play around with it).

Look here for a guide to installing openFOAM:
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=156298

I’m trying it now, I’ll let you know of any differences I needed to follow.

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I’m personally fond of mandriva, which is also rather easy to install, but I won’t argue here which is better.

as for linking the old computers together, try going to http://www.csm.ornl.gov/pvm/pvm_home.html
see if that helps

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thanks,
school starts tomarow for me so that’s when I start.

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Ok thanks for the help(ubuntu is downloading as I speak) but will I be able to export animated meshes to blender?:slight_smile:

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where is evrebody?
Does anybody know abuot the meshes?

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I couldn’t get all the dependencies to compile + install, sorry. I haven’t tried much though, and I don’t know what format the meshes are in. Have you searched about it? What have you found?

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I failed to install ubuntu with in 10^10^10 trys so gave up, thanks any ways. :frowning:
maby some day I will get more computers and try again.

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I know this is an old thread, but there is some new progress in this area.

First there’s VTKBlender which is a python script to allow VTK meshes to go to Blender, and Blender meshes to go to VTK. (http://www.ualberta.ca/CNS/RESEARCH/Vis/VTKBlender/index.html)

VTK is The Visualization Toolkit which is meant to be used to see OpenFoam meshes. (www.vtk.org)

Secondly, There is an OpenFoam Workshop in July, 2008 at which a paper entitled Combined use of Blender and OpenFOAM by D. Baldwin will be presented. So that could be illustrative.