Nabla are pleased to announce the release OpenFOAM version 2.3. The new version features:

New solvers

Interface capturing multiphase flow with LES and RAS turbulence modelling; buoyancy driven flows; compressible flows; and, engines.

Improved numerics

Advanced discretisation for poor quality meshes; efficient, robust, parallelised, zero-loss particle tracking; improved discretisation for interface tracking.

Mesh generation and manipulation

Extensive toolkit for analysing, merging, splitting and scaling meshes and manipulating boundary patches.

Surface handling

New toolkit for manipulating surface descriptions in AC3D, GTS, Lightwave OBJ, OFF, STL, STL-binary and TRI formats.

Post-processing

New powerful visualisation tools including reader module for ParaView , and data converter for other VTK -based graphics tools such as VisIt ; polyhedral cell support has been incorporated into the readers for EnSight and Fieldview.

Please note that version 2.3 will operate with existing, valid licence keys. Existing users are encouraged to download the new version using instructions previously received. New users are advised to contact us for download instructions. For a full list of changes, see Changes from OpenFOAM 2.2 to 2.3.