This is an old post saved for archival purposes only. The olaFoam project is now the olaFlow project

OLAFOAM is the evolution of IHFOAM, a well-known three-dimensional Navier-Stokes solver for free surface flows, and is born with the spirit of providing the latest advances for the simulation of wave dynamics to the OpenFOAM and FOAM-extend communities.

At this initial stage OLAFOAM is a slightly modified version of IHFOAM, but new implementations and updates (see roadmap in the wiki site) will be readily available soon. Bug fixes will be a priority and reasonable support will be given through the appropriate channels.

OLAFOAM provides cutting-edge technologies as state-of-the-art active wave generation and absorption techniques working at the boundaries (i.e. without increasing the computational cost), two phase flow through porous media or the newly introduced moving multi-paddle piston-type wavemakers, which also perform active wave absorption.

The release includes the complete source code, pre- and post-processing tools, 6 tutorials and additional reference materials. You can find all the details in this web site.