5th OpenFOAM User Conference 2017

ESI-Open CFD is pleased to announce the 5th Annual OpenFOAM User Conference. This event offers a unique opportunity to learn about the latest developments and interact with users and developers across the OpenFOAM community.

Special lecture

Prof. Philip Roe, University of Michigan Upwinding-Past, Present and Future We are pleased to announce that Prof. Philip Roe, best known for his work on high-resolution compressible flows based on approximate Riemann solvers and Godunov methods will deliver the keynote at this year’s conference.

Keynotes

		Prof. Kyriakos Giannakoglou, National Technical University of Athens OpenFOAM-based Continuous Adjoint in Shape Optimization - Recent Developments & Industrial Applications Prof. Kyriakos Giannakoglou is widely acclaimed for his work on Adjoint Optimization.
		Prof. Steven B. Beale, Forschungszentrum Jülich Chemical Energy to Electric Power: Fuel cell models - status and opportunities Prof. Beale is a senior scientist at the Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH. Formerly a principal research officer at the National Research and Council of Canada, he has 30 years of experience in computational fluid dynamics, and 18 years in fuel cells.
		Dr. Karl Meredith, FM Global Industrial Fire Suppression: development, validation, and application of FireFOAM Karl Meredith is a Principal Research Scientist in FM Global’s Research Division, where he leads the Fire Modeling team.  Karl holds a Ph.D. In Chemical Engineering from Brigham Young University.  He has over 18 years of experience performing scientific model development and computations for combustion and fire-suppression scenarios.

This year's conference agenda (October 17th - 18th) will include a focus on Optimization and the Collaborative OpenFOAM infrastructure, continuing themes on Aerodynamic, Process Engineering and Multiphase, Energy Environment, Heat Transfer, OpenFOAM Technologies including Meshing and HPC.

Additional Workshops (October 19th):

• Tips, Tricks & Best Practices
• Meshing and Overset
• Visual-CFD

Congratulations to Maria Faruoli, Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, University of Basilicata, winner of the Student Paper Award for her presentation "Adjoint optimization with thermal constraints".

Venue

This event will take place in Frankfurt, Germany from 17th to 19th October 2017. This year we will host the event at the Dorint Pallas Hotel in Wiesbaden (close to Frankfurt), Germany. Read more ...

Sponsor Program

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Flashback: Past OpenFOAM User Conferences

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Four years ago in April 2013, ESI premiered the OpenFOAM User Conference in Frankfurt, Germany with more than 200 participants from all parts of the world. With a mix of about 35 industrial speakers from Automotive, Chemical, Aerospace, Biotechnologies, Marine, Coastal Engineering etc., the event brought OpenFOAM creators and OpenFOAM users together to exchange and share their ideas and knowledge about OpenFOAM. Attendee numbers increased even more at our third OpenFOAM User Conference 2015 in Stuttgart and also the fourth event, held in October 2016 in Cologne, was again extremely well received by the worldwide OpenFOAM community.

What do the attendees from former OpenFOAM User Conferences have to say?

The 2nd OpenFOAM User Conference was a great chance to know and exchange experiences and knowledge with the rest of OpenFOAM community. We need it every year regularly. The community is growing up!

It was a very diverse collection of unique problem solving techniques from different standpoints (industries, universities), all contributing to the open-source community.

I really appreciate the wide variety of industrial applications covered during each session

Very interesting presentations and good opportunity of meeting people from other industries / academics and seeing what they do with OpenFOAM

I got a lot of insight and collaborations opportunities form the community

The event was very good. It keeps you well informed about what is going on in the world of OpenFOAM and what is to come next

It was the perfect occasion to meet the OpenFOAM community leaders along with other users to exchange great ideas for the future of CFD.

A great opportunity to meet colleagues and interact with the ESI-OpenCFD team.

Thank you for the well organized conference.

At early stages of using OpenFOAM, but we will understand better our requirements with regard to OpenFOAM as we use it within our projects.