G2 Vendor Directory

OpenFOAM

by OpenFOAM Project

35

Reviews

4.3

Star rating

#76

Rank in Simulation & CAE

Pros and cons

Pros

    Cons

      Traffic & LLM citations

      Monthly G2.com page views and citations by AI answer engines for OpenFOAM.

      Page views and citations · OpenFOAM

      Source: G2 review data

      Winning from

      Based on reviewers who said they switched from another product.

      1

      Ansys Fluent

      1 switched

      Losing to

      Based on reviewers of other products who said they switched from OpenFOAM.

      1

      SimScale

      2 switched
      2

      Ansys Fluent

      1 switched
      3

      Simcenter STAR-CCM+

      1 switched

      Key stats

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      Small Business

      1

      Adoption by company size

      SegmentShare of reviews
      Small Business62.9%
      Mid-Market17.1%
      Enterprise20.0%

      Quarterly history

      QuarterReviewsStar rating

      Satisfaction ratings

      Ease of Use7.1
      Ease of Setup5.7
      Quality of Support6.7
      Meets Requirements8.3

      What reviewers say

      best experience free

      4.0

      “it si very customizable and free. The user guide is pretty complete”

      CAE Engineer

      Best opensource CFD software

      4.0

      “Fully opensource and freedom to modify the source code. It also has good documentation and user base.”

      Post-Doctoral Fellow

      Computational Fluid Dynamics on OpenFOAM

      3.0

      “OpenFOAM is a free software that can run fluid dynamic simulations with features on par with Ansys and is compatible with stl files created on blender or other 3D object generating softwares”

      Senior Data Analyst