OpenFOAM Seminar

ESI invites you to a complimentary OpenFOAM® seminar during which our experts, including some of the OpenFOAM® founding members, will share with you their knowledge and experience of OpenFOAM®.

ESI recently acquired OpenCFD Ltd., the leader in the Open Source Computational Fluid Dynamics software.   ESI’s existing expertise in OpenFOAM®, based on its own know how in CFD and its previous acquisition of Mindware Engineering, will complement the knowledge and skills of the OpenCFD team, and will further ensure support for OpenFOAM® software .  ESI’s proven know how and success in industrial software development will strengthen quality assurance and enable global support of a viable, trusted, and scalable solution for both large enterprises and small and medium size companies.

At ESI, we understand the constant pressure automotive OEMs and suppliers face to reduce development cost while maintaining a very high level of engineering innovation.  In this environment, open source solutions appear to be very attractive propositions, providing the organizations access to virtually unlimited number of seats thus allowing engineers to simulate more design variations and fostering innovation.  Also, with open source, engineers can efficiently customize their simulations as needed with full access to the source code.  However, before this transition to open source can happen, associated risks need to be evaluated and minimized, and issues need to be addressed.  In particular, one has to carefully consider the quality of the results, the overall workflow and associated productivity, training, support, legacy data and many other factors.
OpenFOAM® is a free, open source CFD software package offering an extensive range of features to solve anything from complex fluid flows involving chemical reactions, turbulence and heat transfer, to solid dynamics and electromagnetics. It has a large user base across most areas of engineering and science, from both commercial and academic organizations.

The emphasis of this event will be on automotive applications; however those interested in CFD simulation in any field are welcome.

Please be sure to register for our seminar now!

Seminar Location

Hilton Garden Inn
26000 American Drive
Southfield, MI 48034

Agenda

  8:45AM     Registration

  9:00AM     Welcome - ESI and OpenFOAM® (Acquisition of OpenCFD®)
                 Mike Salari, VP CFD Business Unit, ESI Group

  9:30AM     The OpenFOAM® Software
                 Christopher Greenshields - Director of Operation, ESI OpenCFD

10:30AM     Break

10:45AM     Pre & Post for OpenFOAM® (live-demo of OpenFOAM® GUI)
                 Anshul Gupta, Director, CFD Prodcut Development, ESI Group

11:30AM     Customer Presentation
                 - "Using OpenFOAM to Model Stationary Gas Turbine Combustors"
                   Scott Martin, Siemens Power Corporation

12:00PM     Lunch (provided)

  1:00PM    Customer Presentations
                 - "Hybrid Multiphase CFD Simulations for Flows in Liquid-Liquid
                   Extraction Equipment”
                   Kent Wardle, Argonne National Laboratory

                 - “Use of OpenFOAM at University of Michigan with focus on FSI
                   and LES”
                   Kevin Maki, Dept. of Naval Architecture & Marine Eng., University
                   of Michigan

                 - "OpenFOAM Application in Vehicle Aerodynamic"
                   Ronald Gin, ESI, Arturo Guzman & Kumar Srinivasan, Chrysler LLC   

  2:30PM    Conclusion and Q&A

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