Whether you are a profesional Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) user or want to explore CFD for the first time, one of the most common approaches to develop a CFD simulation for a new case study of interest is to search for the most similar, previously developed and validated CFD simulation among other works. A simple search would result into a pool of written/visual tutorials. However, users should spend significant amount of time and effort to find the most correct, compatible and valid tutorial in this pool and further modify it toward their simulation of interest.

SFO is an open-source project with the core idea of saving the above-mentioned time and effort. This is done via documenting/sharing scientific and methodological approaches to develop CFD simulations for a wide spectrum of fundamental and industrial case studies in three different CFD solvers; STAR-CCM+, FLUENT and Open FOAM (SFO). All of the steps and required files of these tutorials are accessible and editable under the common roof of Github (a web-based Git repository hosting service).

Currently SFO-Project has 10+ national and international engineer and scientist members and a library of 20+ developed CFD tutorials. Below are the list currently developed and under-development CFD case studies in this project. Our team is actively looking forward to your feedback, comments and to host you as a new SFO-er! Please Email us at sfo.cfd@gmail.com to either add your current project to our archive or learn CFD by taking the lead of a existing project. Our expert members will train and collaborate with you side-by-side FREE of any charge and expenss!

Case Study Tier 1 CFD Packages
2D Flow In Backwardstep Laminar Star-CCM-Plus Fluent OpenFoam
2D Flow In Rectangular Pipe Laminar Star-CCM-Plus Fluent OpenFoam
2D Flow Over Cylinder Laminar Star-CCM-Plus Fluent OpenFoam
2D Flow Over Cylinder Laminar Unsteady Star-CCM-Plus Fluent OpenFoam
2D Flow Over Flat Plate Laminar Star-CCM-Plus Fluent OpenFoam
2D Flow Over Rectangle Laminar Star-CCM-Plus Fluent OpenFoam
2D Flow Over Rotating Cylinder Laminar Star-CCM-Plus Fluent OpenFoam
3D Flow in Circular Pipe Laminar Star-CCM-Plus Fluent OpenFoam
Case Study Tier 2
3D Flow Over Wind/Tidal Turbine 1D Linear Momentum Turbulent Star-CCM-Plus
3D Flow Over Wind/Tidal Turbine Virtual Blade Model (VBM) Turbulent Fluent
3D Lagrangian Particle Dispersion Discrete Random Walk (DRW) Turbulent Fluent
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Teymour Javaherchi

SFO Project Founder - University of Washington

SFO vision: The SFO-Project is the next ultimated online source for the most comprehensive CFD tutorials in both academia and industry. This is achived via development and presentation of methodological approaches to simulate case studies of interest using CFD.

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Ardeshir Javaherchi

Full Stack Developer - Fluke Corporation

SFO vision: SFO-Project is planning to bring the most fundamental validated CFD cases to you via your contribution & many other CFD experts around the world.

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Amirhossein Amini

Research Scientist - University of Washington

SFO vision: Coming Soon!

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Mojtaba Amiraslanpour

CFD Manager - Simico

SFO vision: Using SFO project, not only I taught CFD tutorials to beginners, but also I learned CFD myself. I greatly endorse free and open CFD education for enthusiasts which is the key concept of the SFO project.

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Akshay Basavaraj Bagi

Research Scientist - University of Washington

SFO vision: The SFO Project is a helping tool for students who want to explore the world of CFD. It gives them information about classic CFD problems that are the stepping stones for further complex problems. Students can get all the necessary information for free and this is the reason why I decided to contribute to SFO.

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Scout Heck

Civil Engineer - University of Washington

SFO vision: The SFO-Project introduced me to the topic of CFD. Through the project I had the opportunity to learn the fundamentals of CFD simulation development through research and to present my findings during the Undergraduate Research Symposium at the University of Washington. I am glad to have taken part in this project and hope that our collective work will help others create their own simulations and studies in the future.

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Phu Phan

Mechanical Engineer - University of Washington

SFO vision: I contributed to the project because I want everyone to learn CFD in an easy and informative way. I think in the future, SFO project should expand its expertise to other fields such as heat transfer, structural, etc.

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Pierre-Louis Ponties

Ensign - French Navy

SFO vision: Not easy to begin with, but with a little of practice it becomes pretty convenient to understand how to develope and run CFD simulations methodologically.

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Danny Sale

Research Scientist - University of Washington

SFO vision: I like to contribute to the SFO-project because otherwise I don't mind where to store the data, including the full local storage systems, haha, also SFO-project can potentially become a nice resource for classical flow problems, and the more examples available that people can read and search on the internet makes it easier to translate between languages and experience levels.