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Introduction

blueCAPE Lda is responsible for blueCFD®-Core, blueCFD®-SingleCore and this version of cross-compiled OpenFOAM®.

blueCFD®-SingleCore is a subset of blueCFD®-Core, providing the same high quality cross-compiled build version of OpenFOAM® for Windows XP/Vista/7 (32 and 64bit) as in blueCFD®-Core, with some additional tweaks, executables and scripts, in order to maintain usability under a Windows environment. On the other hand, ParaView and MSys are not integrated automatically and MPI support is not provided. An Issue Tracker is provided for the blueCFD®-SingleCore project, providing only support for bugs found with the software installed with the blueCFD-SingleCore installers and the code provided in the project repositories.

Currently, not all applications available in blueCFD®-Core and blueCFD®-SingleCore have been tested. It is still a work in progress.

This offering is not approved or endorsed by the companies and people that own the trade marks referred above. For more information about the the licenses and trade marks and other details, please read the Disclaimer page!

Getting started

Read the blueCFD-SingleCore User Guide for learning how to install and start to use blueCFD-SingleCore.

Head to the Lobby for more directions and instructions!

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Contact blueCAPE Lda if you wish to help, support or donate to the blueCFD-SingleCore project.

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blueCFD-SingleCore vs blueCFD-Core

Intrigued about the differences between the two projects? Here is a summary list of features for the two of them:

Feature blueCFD-SingleCore blueCFD-Core

Install and run OpenFOAM® on Windows
(Unofficially, see Disclaimer)
Yes
Yes

MPI functionality: Open-MPI, MPICH2 and MS-MPI
No
Yes

Modified OpenFOAM® source code
Yes
Yes

Instructions and support for compiling the modified source code
No
Yes

Code Documentation browser
Yes
Yes

MSys (Linux like shell)
No
Yes

Run-time Code Compilation (#codeStream)
No
Yes

Build custom code directly on Windows
No
Yes

Build OpenFOAM directly on Windows through MSys
No
Yes

Automatic third-party software integration:

ParaView
No
Yes

Discretizer
No
Yes

Gnuplot
No
Yes

GDB (GNU Debugger)
No
Yes

Python
No
Yes

Notepad2
No
Yes

enGrid
No
Yes

Blender
No
Yes

CMake
No
Yes

Adapted public contributions made for OpenFOAM®:

swak4Foam
No
Yes

PyFoam
No
Yes

Code excerpts from Project Extend's 1.6-ext
No
Yes

Basic documentation: blueCFD-SingleCore User Guide
Yes
Yes

Extended documentation:
User Guide, Developer Guide and ThirdParty User Guide
No
Yes

Bug report and fixing
Limited
(see Issue Tracker)
Yes
(via email)

Help and support
No
Yes