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Originally Posted by ConnClark

An interesting paper on using openfoam for vehicle design

http://web.student.chalmers.se/group...nPaperOFW5.pdf

note that they have access to a super computing cluster

Also noted for that paper, they set their CFD job to run on only 64 or 128 cores of the 8000 the cluster had available. That does make it far more powerful than what most of us have at home, but it's not thousands of times more.

Did your laptop have the same amount of RAM you were recommending, ConnClark? My "spare" machine that's already running Ubuntu's distro of linux has plenty of disk space, but it only has 1Gb of RAM memory, and likely that will be the limiting factor. That, and it's wouldn't be dedicated solely for running OpenFOAM.