For my bachelor's degree, I have to do a bit of basic CFD (simple shapes, cubes and the like).
I will be using the most basic visualisation as the numbers are my primary concern.
The best "free" software for students seems to be OpenFoam that has an Ubuntu build:
http://www.openfoam.org/download/My mac is twin G5 PowerMac with 4gigs of ram that unused. It works great, quiet and very reliable.
I was wondering if I could do a Ubuntu install and run OpenFoam on it. What pitfalls might a newb encounter doing so?
http://www.ubuntu.com/downloadThere are 3 current versions, so I don't even know where to start
Thanks!
Background:
This is the same project, but more refined, referred to in a previous topic that I am trying to get off the ground on a shoe string:
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/beginners/datalogging-with-arduino/That part is solved with; UNOs, Adafruit dataloggers and I2C sensors. Currently evaluating various software solutions.
I know that a 200 euro PC setup in a cardboard box would be faster _ I don't have 200€ as a side effect of being a student and renovating a house for wifey and daughter.
I will be testing the correlation of CFD, Windtunnel and real world data in the nautical domain for ship superstructures - fun for all the family!
I don't care if the CFD takes 8 hours instead of 2, because I can leave it running day and night.
The final CFD visualisation runs for the presentation will be done with an 8 node, 32 core setup - that I don't get a lot of time on - so I need to iterate before.
The CFD is really basic, mostly a single cube a various angles and wind speeds in the non compressible region.