Proceedings of CFD with OpenSource Software, 2017

PrefaceThe present proceedings consists of the outcomes of the 7.5 hec master/PhD course ’CFD withOpenSource Software’, 2017. The course gives an introduction to the use of OpenSource softwarefor CFD applications. It has a strong focus on how to efficiently use the Linux operatingsystem and different softwares that are useful for CFD. A major individual project work in OpenFOAMforms a large part of the course. The project is defined according to the student’s specialinterests. The result of the project is a detailed tutorial for a specific application or library ofOpenFOAM, which is presented to, and peer-reviewed by the students. The tutorials thus forma part of the course (Docendo discimus - Latin: ’by teaching, we learn’). The tutorials are madeavailable through the proceedings, as a contribution to the OpenFOAM community, and to contributeto global learning. The tutorials are typically made available in the form of a report, aset of slides, possible source code, possible cases, and additional material, to be downloaded athttp://www.tfd.chalmers.se/~hani/kurser/OS_CFD, under the corresponding year.The main requirements of a tutorial is that it should consider the following four aspects:• How to use it• The theory of it• How it is implemented• How to modify itThis should be reflected by the specified learning outcomes of each tutorial, and should be evaluatedby a set of study questions.It should be recognized that the tutorials are student project work, done as part of a course.For many of the students it is the first time they are introduced to OpenFOAM, C++ and objectoriented programming, and some of the students have limited previous experience with Linux. Anyreader should be aware that the tutorials might not be free of errors. Still, the tutorials might beuseful for someone who would like learn something similar as the students learnt while doing theproject work. The material has gone through a review process. The role of the reviewers is to gothrough the tutorial and make sure that it works, that it is possible to follow, and to some extentcorrect the writing. The reviewers have no responsibility for the contents, and it is thus up to thereader to make sure that any work that is derived from one of the tutorials is verified and validated.The Editor:Prof. H\ue5kan Nilsson (Chalmers University of Technology