Events

  • FOSSEE, IIT Bombay, is organising an 'Orientation Program on OpenFOAM and its application to CFD' on 24th July 2026. 

    Who can attend:

    Faculty members, research scholars, lab staff members and students (in group) who teach, learn and use CFD. 

    Program Details:
     
    This program will enable the attendees to get started with using OpenFOAM for solving CFD problems, get introduced to the resources to learn OpenFOAM, and compile CFD problems as Case Study Projects. They will be made aware of the various domains of CFD where OpenFOAM can be applied and the capabilities of OpenFOAM. They will also be informed about the benefits of association with FOSSEE, IIT Bombay, in terms of career enhancement.    
     
    Date: 24th July 2026 (Friday)
    Time: 4:00- 6:00 p.m. IST
    Mode: Online
    Form for attendance confirmation: Click here
     
    Prerequisites:
     
    1. For every institute a 'Program Coordinator' should be assigned. He/ She will be the point of contact for FOSSEE, IIT Bombay, team.
     
    2. In case more than one department is joining for the program the Program Coordinator should assign Department level coordinators who would manage the program at their respective departments. All of the department level coordinators will report to the institute level coordinator, who will be in touch with FOSSEE, IIT Bombay.
     
    3. The Program Coordinator(s) should arrange a venue, preferably a Seminar Hall, classroom, computer lab where the faculty and students could attend the program with their laptop or desktop
     
    4. OpenFOAM should be installed in all the computer systems (desktops/ laptops) to be used by the faculty members and students. 
     
    Once you fill up the Attendance Confirmation form for the program, the CFD team of FOSSEE, IIT Bombay, would provide the necessary information for OpenFOAM installation. A live online support will also be provided for the individuals who would face installation related issues. 

  • A Faculty Development Program on Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) using OpenFOAM will be offered by FOSSEE, IIT Bombay, in an online mode from 2-5 June 2026. This program is designed to introduce OpenFOAM for CFD from the basics. It will offer lecture and hands-on sessions aiming at the skill development of the faculty members who work in the CFD field. Registration is free for this training program. Registered participants will be awarded certificates upon the fulfillment of the attendance criteria set by FOSSEE, IIT Bombay. 

    Registration for this program is open and is available here.

  • FOSSEE OpenFOAM Symposium on CFD

    A 2 day Symposium on OpenFOAM for CFD was conducted during 8-9 Jan 2026 at the Aerospace Department, IIT Bombay. The symposium was arranged to bring together the OpenFOAM users of the IIT Bombay community. The event was attended by faculty, students and research scholars of IIT Bombay. There were more than 50 participants. Faculty members from various departments presented their work and talked about how OpenFOAM was used in their research work. The OpenFOAM faculty lead Prof. Chandan Bose, visiting faculty, Chemical Engineering Department and the FOSSEE CFD team ensured a smooth conduct of the event.

    On the Day 1 of the Symposium there were talk sessions by professors of IIT Bombay. A panel discussion followed the talk sessions, wherein the Faculty Partners and Advisory Board members of the CFD team of FOSSEE came together to discuss a few topics on CFD that are of high significance to the CFD community.

    On the Day 2 of the symposium a workshop was organised at IIT Bombay. Students of IIT Bombay and some nearby regions of Mumbai were invited to attend the workshop. The workshop focused on the intermediate and advanced levels of OpenFOAM. Prof. Chandan Bose conducted the workshop along with the CFD team members of FOSSEE, IIT Bombay. Dr. Rahul Halder from SISSA Italy presented a demonstration during the workshop as a guest speaker.   

  • The Industry Readiness Workshop on CFD was conducted during 11-14 Nov 2025 in online mode by FOSSEE, IIT Bombay. More than 1800 CFD enthusiasts showed interest to attend the workshop and hundreds of learners were benefited by the 8 sessions conducted during the 4 Day workshop. The  participants were introduced to the ongoing problems that are dealt with in the CFD industry by the Advisory Board Members of the CFD FOSSEE team. They attended multiple demonstration sessions referred from the Case Study Project of CFD FOSSEE that followed
     the corporate lectures. The Case Studies demonstrated during the workshop were relevant to the topic on which the Advisory Board Members lectured, resulting in an amazing synchrony of a virtual industry visit and academic reference. 
     
     
    YouTube recording of the Industry Readiness Workshop on CFD held during 11-14 Nov 2025 is available here .

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    The Faculty Development Program was organised in June 2025 to impart knowledge to the faculty members to solve CFD problems while understanding the intricacies involved in simulations through a robust at the same time easy to use CFD tool box- OpenFOAM.

    At the end of this workshop, participants learnt-

    • how to set up, view the files and run a case in OpenFOAM 
    • to become familiar with pre-processing tools and will be able to generate mesh, set the boundary & initial conditions, learn simulation control etc.
    • how to plot and visualise the results in ParaView.
    • how to use a turbulence model in a simulation and to compare the results from a simulation using different turbulence models.
    • how to apply higher-order numerical schemes in CFD simulations.
    • to simulate multiphase flows.
    • about Dynamic meshing.
    • to add a scalar transport equation in a solver.

    The Faculty members who attended the program was benefitted by-

    • Learning fundamentals of CFD using OpenFOAM 
    • Learning to simulate problem in OpenFOAM 
    • Learning essentials of post-processing 
    • Receiving certificate for attending the 4 day OpenFOAM learning program

    The video recording of the Faculty Development Program 2025 is available here.

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