[Openfoam-extend-stammtisch] Upcoming OpenFOAM Stammtisch(e) and other news

[Henrik R. <h.r...@wi...>]

Dear FOAMers,

Happy New Year!

This newsletter contains information about upcoming events as well as
exciting news

1) Upcoming OpenFOAM® Stammtisch events
2) FOAM-extend 3.0 released
3) 9th International OpenFOAM® Workshop

Keep foaming,

Henrik


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---- Upcoming OpenFOAM® Stammtisch events ----
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Dear German FOAMers,

the next OpenFOAM® user group meetings (Stammtische) Germany will take
place at the

Ruhr-Universität Bochum on 14.02.2014 (Central Germany)

http://www.extend-project.de/events-and-meetings/62

and

TU Kaiserslautern on 17.02.2014 (Southern Germany)

http://www.extend-project.de/events-and-meetings/61

The OpenFOAM® Stammtisch events are intended as a informal user meetings
for FOAMers in Germany.

The agenda for the meeting will be provided soon. If you would like to
give a presentation, please send an E-Mail to
henrik.rusche[at]wikki-gmbh.de.

Please register at the OpenFOAM-Extend Community Portal via the links
provided above. Also do not forget your notebooks for the BoF-sessions.


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---- FOAM-extend 3.0 released ----
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We are proud to announce that the long-awaited next release of the
community fork of OpenFOAM(R) has finally happened! Previously known as
"OpenFOAM-extend", we intend continue the tradition and spirit of the
original FOAM code, which was released as the general purpose CFD/CCM
package by Nabla Ltd. in 2000. In this spirit, we shall revert to
original numbering scheme (foam-2.3.2, 13 December 2004) and name the
new release: "foam-extend-3.0", nicknamed "Jeju". It is distributed
under GPLv2. The release can be compiled and runs on any linux system
and Apple Mac OS X.

The release contains work by over 50 contributors. For a full list of
features and improvements, please have a look at the release notes.
This is a community effort and we welcome all your contributions: Bug
reports, bugfixes, code, documentation, and anything else you would like
to contribute.

For a detailed list of contributions, new features, capabilities,
top-level solvers, utilities and tutorials, please see the release notes.

The source code of the new release is available through git. To download
the source code for a user-space installation, please run:

mkdir ~/foam/
cd ~/foam/
git clone git://git.code.sf.net/p/openfoam-extend/foam-extend-3.0

Please refer to ~/foam/foam-extend-3.0/doc/installtationInstructions/
for the necessary steps to compile the source code on your system. If
your system is missing or if you find any errata, please contribute to
the project and submit new or updated documentation!

Binary packages for Linux Ubuntu 12.04 and 13.10, and Fedora 19 are
available for download on the project website:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/openfoam-extend/files/foam-extend-3.0/

The Mac OS X contribution is available as a mountable sparse disk image
foam-extend-3.0.sparseimage.zip .

Please enjoy and join the community!


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---- 9th International OpenFOAM® Workshop ----
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The Workshop Committee would like to invite you to the

9th International OpenFOAM® Workshop

held 23-26 June 2014 in Zagreb, Croatia.

The 9th edition of the OpenFOAM® Workshop provides a forum for
researchers, industrial users, software developers, consultants and
academics working with OpenFOAM®. The Workshop is a premier event for
highlighting recent work with OpenFOAM®, by virtue of its 8-year
tradition and the fact that it is open to all contributors, irrespective
of their background or interest. As a part of the program, free
introductory and advanced OpenFOAM® training will be provided by the
Special Interest Groups and experts in the field. The goals of the
meeting are:

  * Present recent developments, validation results or examples of use
    where OpenFOAM® software has been applied in novel ways
  * Exchange ideas on development of physical models and numerical
    techniques implemented in OpenFOAM®
  * Find colleagues with similar interest to share your experiences and
    plan future collaboration
  * Provide hands-on and in-depth training and information on OpenFOAM®
    software, its capabilities and future developments Please come and
    join the biggest OpenFOAM event of the year. For more details,
    please checkout: http://www.openfoamworkshop.org/



-- 
Dr. Henrik Rusche
WIKKI
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