Major Release Announcement | blastFoam v5.0

Written By Tim Brewer

Release date: 10/05/2021

  • Compatible with OpenFOAM-9

  • Leaner, faster, meaner!

  • Ready for Windows

  • Ready for blastFoam-GPU

blastFoam is an opensource solver for multi-component compressible flow with application to high-explosive detonation, explosive safety and airblast.

The solver is based on the OpenFOAM® framework and provides solutions to highly compressible systems including single and multi-phase compressible flow, and single- and multi-velocity systems.

blastFoam provides implementations of the essential numerical methods (e.g. 2nd and 3rd order schemes), equations of state (e.g. ideal gas, stiffened gas, Jones-Wilkins-Lee, etc.), run-time selectable flux schemes (e.g. HLL, HLLC, AUSM+, Kurganov/Tadmor) and high-order explicit time integration (e.g. 2nd, 3rd, and 4th order). blastFoam provides activation and explosive burn models to simulate the initiation and expansion of energetic materials, as well as afterburn models to simulate under-oxygenated explosives that exhibit delayed energy release.

Synthetik's opensource CFD airblast code based on the OpenFOAM framework is available on GitHub: https://github.com/synthetik-technologies/blastfoam

blastFoam is developed by Synthetik Applied Technologies:
https://www.synthetik-technologies.com/

Disclaimer: This offering is not approved or endorsed by OpenCFD Limited, producer and distributor of the OpenFOAM software via www.openfoam.com, and owner of the OPENFOAM and OpenCFD trade marks.

Tim Brewer
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