blastFoam: Synthetik's CFD Airblast Code is Now Available on GitHub

Synthetik’s free and open-source blastFoam code is now available for download on GitHub with a user guide, validation, and example run cases.

blastFoam is a solver for multi-component compressible flow with application to high-explosive detonation, explosive safety and airblast. blastFoam is developed by Synthetik Applied Technologies.

blastFoam is an open-source toolbox for simulating detonations based on the OpenFOAM framework [OpenCFD Ltd., 2018]. The code provides solutions to the five equation model for multi-phase compressible flow, and is based on the work of Zheng et al. [2011] and Shyue [2001]. blastFoam provides implementations of the essential numerical methods (e.g. 2nd and 3rd order schemes), equations of state (e.g. Jones-Wilkins-Lee, Ideal Gas, Stiffened Gas, Tait, Cochran Chan, and Van der Waals), 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). A simplified burn model simulates activation of energetic materials, and supports multi-point initiation and multi-material detonation; and includes an enhanced implementation of the JWL equation of state suitable for modeling afterburn

GitHub Repository: https://github.com/synthetik-technologies/blastfoam

If you use the blastFoam code for your work or research, please use this citation:

blastFoam: An OpenFOAM Solver for Compressible Multi-Fluid Flow with Application to High-Explosive Detonation. Synthetik Applied Technologies, LLC., 2019.