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OpenFOAM-dev Third-Party packages

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Description

OpenFOAM uses some additional software for visualisation (ParaView), parallelisation (OpenMPI) and decomposition (options including Scotch/PtScotch, Zoltan, METIS/ParMETIS). By default, OpenFOAM is configured to use standard system installations of these packages, except for some packages (Scotch and Zoltan) whose source code is provided and automatically compiled, as described here: https://openfoam.org/download/source/third-party-software

Users can optionally compile software packages rather than install system versions. To do so, they need to download the source code of the relevant package(s) before running installation script(s).

Downloading additional software

Links to the source code of recommended versions of additional packages are listed below. Any package selected should be downloaded and unpacked in the third-party directory (ThirdParty-dev).

Scotch/PtScotch

Zoltan

METIS/ParMETIS

OpenMPI

ParaView