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OPEN<strong>FOAM</strong> (2)<br />

Adopted as platform for next-generation explosion CFD code within<br />

Shell Major Hazards Group to replace existing in-house code.<br />

A Porosity/Distributed Resistance solver (<strong>PDR</strong>Foam) is part <strong>of</strong> the<br />

standard distribution. Development was funded by Shell.<br />

Open<strong>FOAM</strong> chosen because:<br />

Modern architecture.<br />

Inbuilt Parallelism.<br />

Arbitrary meshing.<br />

Flexible & extensible.<br />

Safe against vendor changes.<br />

Copyright <strong>of</strong> Shell Research Ltd<br />

October 2012 12

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