CFD Review: FOAM CFD Toolkit Released as Open Source

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Dec 20, 2004

[ Thanks to Ricardo
Reis
for this link. ]

“The FOAM software, formerly a commercially licensed product,
has become open source software, licensed exclusively under the GNU
General Public Licence. The software is renamed ‘OpenFOAM’ to
reflect its new identity and FOAM will cease to be licensed with
immediate effect.

“The decision to make the software fully open source was taken
to service the needs of CFD [Computational Fluid Dynamics] users in
research, development and consultancy who can benefit greatly from
perpetual free access to what is essentially a programming toolbox
for CFD…

Complete
Story

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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