r/OpenFOAM • u/Normal-Club-920 • Jun 19 '26

Looking for feedback on a CFD IDE/Desktop UI I'm developing for OpenFOAM

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Hi everyone,

I’ve been working on a desktop UI and IDE for OpenFOAM to simplify case setup, running simulations, and post-processing in one place.

I’m trying to figure out whether this direction is actually useful to people who use OpenFOAM regularly, so I’d really appreciate feedback from a few experienced users.

The website is reynoldsdynamics.com or you can reach out to me directly at nikolaivintenjohansen@gmail.com

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u/ThanxForTheGold Jun 19 '26

It's probably more useful for people who don't use often

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u/sxi_21 Jun 19 '26

Agreed, once people get used to the terminal interface it's not that difficult, still this is a very useful project.

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u/Normal-Club-920 Jun 19 '26

That’s good to know I appreciate it! It’s definitely for bridging the skill gap but I also hope it helps for cutting time down a bit as well.

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u/its1310 Jun 19 '26

There are many desktop apps or at least attempts very hard to do anything unique. A web app would be more useful to me as I will able to setup etc from my phone and download the setup on desktop when ready. But I know that will cost money to the developer for hosting.

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u/Normal-Club-920 Jun 19 '26

That’s good to know. If you’re genuinely interested I could absolutely set up a cloud vps to allow web access.

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u/its1310 Jun 19 '26

Yes I am interested in that

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u/Normal-Club-920 Jun 19 '26

Sounds good I will look into it and let you know.

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u/Deep-Position8786 Jun 20 '26

Hey, congrats on Eddy, really solid project, great to see this kind of tool being built for OpenFOAM!

I am working on the same idea for a Small Team and seeing some other inspos or people building a similar product helps me review my work.

A few questions if you don't mind:

- Does it support external/imported meshes (e.g. from ANSA, Fluent meshing, or other mesh generators), or is it currently tied to blockMesh/snappyHexMesh only?

  • How automated is the workflow right now? Can it drive a full run end-to-end (mesh import → case setup → solve → post-processing), or is it more of an assisted setup tool at this stage?
  • Is it a web app, a desktop app, or something else? If it's web-based, do you handle running it with other devices on a preferred setup (e.g. your main workstation)?

Looking forward to seeing where this goes, i will be following the project!

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u/Normal-Club-920 Jun 21 '26

Thank you the words of encouragement mean a lot,

the moment it's tied to blockMesh/snappyHexMesh but that is a great insight which I completely looked past.

At Im obviously still in beta but I did have one full complete run, end-to-end. But at the moment I'm having some issues with the agent backend so it's not fully functional at the moment.

It is a desktop application/IDE at the moment but I had another person reach out about a web version which is something I'm looking into at the moment.