We are happy to announce that Free-CFD 0.0 is released today, open source as promised. You can download the code anytime and the user’s manual should help you get started. The only requirement to download the code is to register to our forum. You only need a valid e-mail address which we promise not to litter. Registration is self-activated, you don’t need to wait for our confirmation. Your e-mail address will be kept confidential and will only be used for important anouncements regarding Free CFD such as new releases.

We hate mixing up good emotions with reservations here but we can’t pass without noting that this is an alpha release, meaning that there might be bugs here and there and that there is room for improvement. Download it, get familiar with it, ask about it to us or to the user base via our forum. Please don’t hesitate, we rely on your feedback for progress.

We are getting closer to a release version.

What is holding us? Most impotantly; the user’s manual. The code would be useless without good documentation so we are preparing instructions for compiling the code, setting up inputs, running the code and getting outputs.

Also, some of the features are being polished and debugged.

Now is a good time to become a member of our forum. Upon release, a notice will be sent to forum members and the code will be available to download from there. The forum will also serve as a platform for support by us or other users as well as for carrying any CFD related discussions.

Free CFD is an open source computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code. You can learn more about it on the about page. Some key features are:

• Written in C++
• Easy to use, easy to code
• Density based Navier-Stokes solver
• All speed ( We know that this is too general a statement but let’s say the code can handle a Mach number of 3 as well as 0.001)
• Parallel ( MPI )
• 3D Unstructured grids of mixed element types (Hexahedra, tetrahedra, prism, pyramid)
• Fully implicit time integration

The code is not released yet. But expect a release really soon.

The code is in early its early stages of development. It is in the process of being well validated and well documented. But the important thing is the idea: 

We want to extend the open-source ideology to CFD community with an easy-to-use, easy-to-understand and easy-to-develop code. We hope this project to be a sustained effort,  very dynamic in its development, driven by your feedback, friendly and responsive to you. 

By the way, we are both PhD students at the University of Michigan, Aerospace Engineering Department. 

You can submit to our feed for the first release announcement.