A company’s research and development technology (possibly embedded within outdated in-house software) can be implemented in OpenFOAM with minimal effort and disruption. For example, chemical kinetics was implemented to the CHEMKIN III specification in matter of a few days.

We can create a new feature on request and release it as a ‘patch’, often within a matter of hours, rather than have users wait months for a new release. This is due to OpenFOAM being modular and supplied largely in source code rather than as a single binary executable.

The latest object-oriented techniques of C++/Java in OpenFOAM provides an unrivalled level of reliability, flexibility and speed.

The latest models, algorithms and techniques quickly reach the OpenFOAM release through contacts over a wide network of academic users.

Providing source code offers users complete freedom to make their own modifications and allows them to undertake quality assessments that cannot be done on ‘black-box’ software.