In less than a decade, OpenFOAM® (www.openfoam.com) became a major simulation platform for research related to flow and transport in porous media at various scales of interest. OpenFOAM® is an open-source Computational Fluid Dynamics package that solves a large spectrum of partial differential equations. OpenFOAM is a versatile scientific package that can solve both single and multiphase flow at the pore-scale (Navier-Stokes) and at larger scales (Darcy). OpenFOAM® includes solvers for a wide variety of flows including multiphase flow, turbulent flow, complex and non-Newtonian flow, and reactive flow. Thanks to its numerical efficiency, OpenFOAM can model flow processes in the exact three-dimensional geometry of a rock sample – an approach known as Digital Rock Physics. One of the major assets of OpenFOAM® is the possibility to customize the source code and implement new models based on partial differential equations. This short course aims at discovering this simulation platform through a series of lectures and live demonstrations. Most of the exercises concern porous media physics either at porescale or at Darcy’s scale. Beyond this objective, the course is also an introduction to computational microfluidics and Digital Rock Physics.

OpenFOAM® includes solvers for a wide variety of flows including multiphase flow, turbulent flow, complex and non-Newtonian flow, and reactive flow. Thanks to its numerical efficiency, OpenFOAM can model flow processes in the exact three-dimensional geometry of a rock sample – an approach known as Digital Rock Physics. One of the major assets of OpenFOAM® is the possibility to customize the source code and implement new models based on partial differential equations.

This short course aims at discovering this simulation platform through a series of lectures and live demonstrations. Most of the exercises concern porous media physics either at porescale or at Darcy’s scale. Beyond this objective, the course is also an introduction to computational microfluidics and Digital Rock Physics.