


I’ve made some changes to my container.How do I get my data into & out of the container?.Building your own OpenFOAM Docker image.What problem does Docker solve for CFD?.What is Docker? Why is it useful for CFD? What is it good/not-so-good for? And, most importantly, how do you actually use it? That’s what I hope this updated version might achieve. But I think there’s still some confusion about using OpenFOAM with Docker. Since then, both OpenCFD & The OpenFOAM Foundation have started distributing Docker-ised versions of their respective releases, easing these issues. make it easier to work with several different versions (&/or different releases) of OpenFOAM on the same machine.providing a consistent CFD environment across a range of operating systems.the problem of installing OpenFOAM® on anything other than a mainstream Linux distribution.The motivation for the original version of this article was to flag Docker as a possible solution to:

Updated May 2019 to be much more comprehensive than the original September 2015 version A little background
