Hi Every one, I have a question for those who can help me. I read that simscale uses openfoam and code_aster under the hood and both of them are GPL license open source software. According to GPL license any software uses GPL software must also be GPL which means that simscale should provide the sou…

Hi @Mkhairy Great question! It’s true that SimScale is using OpenFOAM and Code_Aster which are licensed under the GPL. It’s also not an easy one - software licenses are sometimes written in a form which makes them quite hard to read and understand. The question you’re asking is coming up from time …

Hello @jprobst , my name is Mateus Alves Farah and I am a student of naval engineering from Brazil, I would like to ask something really important about this issue. I am working on a project that I have to use OpenFOAM to validate a case of prediction of resistance in a boat, for my term paper whic…

Hi Mateus first of all, I’m happy to hear that you’ve chosen SimScale for your work :slight_smile: Let me see if I got this right: the idea is to run some simulations with SimScale and then reproduce the results with a standard OpenFOAM? First of all, it is possible to download the simulation res…

Sorry if I didn’t make my self clear, but the real problem now is the mesh. Here is my mesh in SIMSCALE https://www.simscale.com/workbench/?pid=4733360224625830605 . I have been working parallel with OF version 6 and 7 together with SIMSCALE, and the results with the same geometry and parameters use…

Hello @jprobst there any update about I told in the last? Sorry to send another message , btu it’s just way I am worried about that subject. Regards!

Hi @mateusfarah let me try to understand the actual concern here. Are you asking if you may quote SimScale in the thesis? You certainly can reference it, however keep in mind that SimScale is not open source. It is free to be used for academic purposes (which seems what you’re doing) and so it’s f…

Thank you for the reply, and the work will have SIMSCALE and OF uses, because I came to the forum because I loved that everybody and due to the cloud system with 16 processors available, which helped me a lot (my notebook just have 4 cores), so if I could use it I would be glad to put in the referen…

So we are using snappy from OpenFOAM 16.06+ and for the simulations it is OpenFOAM 2.3.1. Sharp edges is something we have improved on our side for snappy so I am not sure if you’ll get the same results with the standard snappy. If the idea is to reproduce SimScale results with an offline OpenFOAM,…

Sorry for the late reply. Thank you for the answer about the versions, and I wanted to tell you that I tried to export the mesh and it worked (I had some help from two users from SIMSCALE). I noticed that the two steps are done separately, and it’s one thing that I do two, just put first the caste…

Hi @mateusfarah , that’s correct. This discussion is getting technical and way off track (this thread is about licensing). I’ll PM you.

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Sorry for that, do you prefer that I transfer the messages from here to the thread about layer generation?