Linux For Open Source CFD
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Note. This linux image was build using SUSE Studio. This service will be shut down in February 2018, so this will be the last supported release until we transition to the new service (SUSE Studio Express). For more information, visit this link http://blog.susestudio.com/2017/11/shut-down-of-suse-studio-at.html.
If you are new to Linux, and you do not want to go thru the hustle and bustle of partitioning your hard drive, backing-up your data, and installing Linux and all the applications for CFD, CAD, meshing, and visualization, we highly recommend you to use this Linux version based on OpenSUSE 42.1 with KDE 4 desktop. You can install this Linux version under Windows, Linux and MacOS using any virtual machine application, but we highly recommend you to use vmware player (there is a free version for Windows).
This Linux version was created with CFD applications in mind for CFD users. It comes with many CFD, CAD, mesh generation, visualization, numerical libraries, optimization, plotting applications, and text editors pre-installed. It also comes with all the compilers and libraries necessary to compile most of the applications.
In this distribution, you will find the following CFD, CAD, optimization, solid modeling, visualization, and meshing applications pre-installed in the cfd user directory: OpenFOAM 5.x, Salome 8.2.0, Dakota 6.6, ParaView 5.1.2, GMSH 3.0.1, OpenVSP 3.8.1, Meshlab 1.3.3.
For those interested in Python, you will find a full installation of Anaconda Python distribution. Anaconda Python is a completely free enterprise-ready Python distribution for large-scale data processing, predictive analytics, and scientific computing.
Additionally, you will find many applications useful for algebra, matrix manipulation, numerical methods, plotting, scientific visualization, programming, debugging, mesh generation and manipulation, image manipulation, and geometry generation. Among others: blender, cgns, ddd, gnuplot, gnu parallel, kcachegrind, nemiver, openscad, R, valgrind, xflr5.
For text editing, you will find emacs, kwrite, gedit, leafpad, and vi. For office productivity, you will find a full installation of libreoffice.
User information:
User: cfd
Password: cfd
User: root
Password: linux
Type alias in the terminal window to know all the predefined aliases, or open the .bashrc file using your favorite text editor.
To load OpenFOAM, type in the terminal:
of5x
To update OpenFOAM, type in the terminal:
of5x
foam
git pull
Then recompile
To load Python anaconda or pyfoam, type in the terminal:
anaconda3
To update Python anaconda, type in the terminal:
conda update conda
conda update anaconda
In this link, you can download the version supporting OpenFOAM 5.x (code named SUSEFoam5)
In this link, you can download the installation instructions
Note. This linux image was build using SUSE Studio. This service will be shut down in February 2018, so this will be the last supported release until we transition to the new service (SUSE Studio Express). For more information, visit this link http://blog.susestudio.com/2017/11/shut-down-of-suse-studio-at.html.
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