The 4th Annual OpenFOAM User Conference 2016

ESI-OpenCFD is pleased to announce the 4th 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 keynote lecture from

		Prof. D Brian Spalding: The Shape of CFDs to Come
and keynotes from the leading industry and academic OpenFOAM base include
		AUDI AG, Richard Borris: Customized developments for AUDI’s OpenFOAM processes
		Caterpillar Inc., PhD, Tobias Huuva: CFD and OpenFOAM at Caterpillar with a Main Focus on Marine Applications
		Politecnico di Milano, Prof. Federico Piscaglia: Developments in transient modeling, moving mesh, turbulence and multiphase methodologies in OpenFOAM®
		Shimizu Corporation, Dr. Pham van Phuc Large Scale Transient CFD Simulations for Buildings using OpenFOAM on a World’s Top-class Supercomputer

This year's conference agenda (October 11th - 12th) will include a focus on industry collaborations, high performance computing and a preview of Overset functionality, set for release in 2017.

Sessions on: Transport & Optimization, Process Industry,  Marine, Power, High Performance Computing, Environmental, OpenFOAM Technology and OpenFOAM Applications. We are adding a special session to encourage views and discussion on "One OpenFOAM".

Additional Parallel Workshops (October 13th):

• Tips, Tricks & Best Practices

• Meshing (including Overset preview)

• Visual-CFD (including CHT)

Following last year's very successful campaign for a best student paper, we are happy to announce this year's winner:

Jibran Haider, Swansea University: "Large strain solid dynamics in OpenFOAM"

Venue

This event will take place in Cologne, Germany from 11th to 13th October 2016. This year we will host the event at the Lindner Hotel City Plaza in Cologne, Germany. Read more...

Sponsor Program

If you're interested, please write to and request the Sponsoring Kit!

Flashback: Past OpenFOAM User Conferences

Three 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 second OpenFOAM User Conference 2014 in Berlin and also the third event, held in October 2015 in Stuttgart, was again extremely well received by the worldwide OpenFOAM community.

Watch our video from last OpenFOAM User Conference 2015...

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.