OpenFOAM tutorials and learning resources

While OpenFOAM is probably the most versatile CFD software out there, its learning curve is so steep that this is a major entry barrier. There are many tutorials out there but hardly any is really useful without looking at others. Nevertheless, I started collecting them in this list.

User guides

• OpenFOAM user guide (CFD Direct)
• OpenFOAM user guide (ESI Group)

Tutorials

Text-based tutorials

• First glimpse
• 3 weeks series
• CFD with OpenSource Software
• PSU OpenFOAM Course Notes

Video Tutorials

• Holzmann CFD YouTube channel
• OpenFOAM Tutorials YouTube channel and GitHub repos
• YouTube channel on OpenFOAM by József Nagy
• YouTube channel on OpenFOAM basics by Mark Kimber

Other interesting introductions and presentations

• http://www.wolfdynamics.com/tutorials.html
• Heat transfer of/in a coffee mug

Internals and other theory

• CPP source code guide
• Mathematics, Numerics, Derivations and OpenFOAM

GUIs, automation tools and their documentation

• HELYX-OS
• InsightCAE
• PyFoam