How to install and use OpenFOAM | Beginner tutorial series #1

UPDATE 3:06 - Make sure to run the following two commands immediately after you first start Ubuntu.
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade

A video guide for installing ParaView, Ubuntu with WSL, and OpenFOAM on Windows 10. The majority of the instructions are also applicable to native Ubuntu installation.

Chapters:
0:00 Install ParaView
1:53 Install Ubuntu via WSL
3:06 Install OpenFOAM on Ubuntu
3:53 Edit ~/.bashrc
5:01 Run a tutorial case
5:42 View the results in ParaView

[konstantinostsikitikos]

Bro! Great tutorial! been through so much and watched many tutorials with no results. Thank you very much

[Tommybotham]

This video made me proud to be British. Just a straight up, no nonsense tutorial. Thanks a lot!

[DonnyHadden]

I wish I could give another like. This video is sooo helpful!

[Nsvnss]

Thank you for this paraview and openfoam explainer video. It was a very descriptive and fluent video. It was very useful.

[sss_Shazam]

This tutorial is the best out of all that is ever made thank you so much.

[selahattinkaracay]

I have just installed. Thank you for your clear explanation.

[nuraykayakol]

I installed OpenFoam sucessfully with your video. Thank you.

[Zsktnc]

Hi, thanks for instructions it was very helpful. I want to study DSMC. Do you have any idea for setup of DSMC? Should I download it or what should I do?

[Ulani]

Do you have any DNS tutorials for a 2D unsteady flow past an airfoil?

[LT]

So what if you dont have the tutorials folder?

Ie, it disnt install one

[omarbuentello]

Thank you very much, was finally able to get OpenFoam to work

[kyrondesign]

I got an error message when I downloaded Ubuntu. How do I fix that?

[Shshsjs-ijyi]

whenever I press “apply” I get a zoomed in screen of the coordinates and I can’t do anything..

[stenogamer]

This peoblem is showing up for me: WslRegisterDistribution failed with error: 0x8007019e - in cmd after I opened the ubuntu :( Please can somebody help me?

[royalezking]

i am stuck at the instalation of ubuntu, a windows of instalation ubuntu wsl open but stuck at "unpacking the distro" someone can help me please ?

[Nazmul--hcsr]

sir, u are the best. you should upload more videos.

[reinhardt]

thanks a lot I wish I found this sooner

[FormulaJake]

How do I run cases? I can run the single case that we copied at the end, but how do I run everything that is located in usr/lib/openfoam etc... Do I need to copy everything else over?

[MarissaKarpack]

I added the paraview executable to my system path, but still get "paraview.exe: command not found" when I try to run it in Ubuntu. Anyone know what could have gone wrong?

[bantam]

everything works, thank you very much