OpenFOAM® Documentation
User Guide
The documentation consists firstly of a User Guide that contains information
about the general running of OpenFOAM, I/O data structures, compilation,
applications, libraries, mesh generation, post-processing and more.
Click User Guide (HTML) to access the HTML version of the guide on this
site.
Click User Guide (PDF Download) to download the latest PDF version of the
Guide.
The PDF version of the User Guide is also supplied in the doc directory of the
OpenFOAM distribution.
C++ Source Guide
The C++ Source Guide, generated by Doxygen has links to source code,
inheritance and collaboration diagrams, and more.
The C++ source guide can be generated within the OpenFOAM installation by
simply executing “doxygen” from within the doc directory of the OpenFOAM
distribution.
Click C++ Source Guide (HTML) to access the generated source documentation
on this site.
Other Documentation
OpenFOAM is open source. The source code of OpenFOAM is a vital source of documentation in itself. As well as the actual code itself, most applications, for example, contain descriptions of what they do, there are descriptions of various models with supporting references, etc..
The use of most applications can be learnt by looking at the corresponding example case in the $FOAM_TUTORIALS directory in the OpenFOAM release. The Allrun scripts show how many applications are executed.
Archived Documentation
Documentation of older versions of OpenFOAM is archived on this site. Archives are available for: