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Originally Posted by windrider919
I looked at OpenFOAM but it only runs on Lynx and I do not want to learn that too just to run OpenFOAM.
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Of course you can turn that argument right around: I don't want to learn Windoze just to run SolidWorks. (Indeed, I will not use Windoze period. I've tried, and don't need the aggravation :-))
CFD is not my field (what little I've done, some years back, related more to atmospheric modeling), but I know enough about it to know that it's going to be complicated, whatever you do. Building 3D models, especially accurate ones of real-world objects, is not easy. Doing the computations takes a good deal of compute power. Any way you go, there's going to be a steep learning curve, and another steep curve in model building. I think open source is the only practical way to go for amateurs, because to make much progress you need a community willing to share knowledge & models.