OpenFOAM is developed and maintained by individuals who contribute their work to the project, with the support and consent of the companies that employ them.

OpenFOAM is developed by contributors, primarily from CFD Direct.

The packages for Ubuntu can be installed directly on MS Windows using the Windows Subsystem for Linux.

OpenFOAM-dev, the (stable) development version, packaged weekly.

OpenFOAM v10, the latest version release.2 versions are available for installation: The packaged version is then included in a Docker image that can be installed on other Linux distributions and macOS. OpenFOAM is packaged for simple installation on Ubuntu Linux. OpenFOAM is available for Linux, macOS and Windows 10.OpenFOAM ® is a registered trademark of OpenCFD Ltd, licensed to the OpenFOAM Foundation in 2011 so that it could distribute its software under under that name. It has no employees and any annual profit is retained within the organisation and cannot be distributed to members.

As such, it has no share capital or shareholders, but has individual members committed to free, open source software, who run the organisation on a voluntary basis.

It is a registered company, limited by guarantee based in England. The OpenFOAM Foundation is the organisaton which holds the copyright of the OpenFOAM software and documentation, whose purpose is to manage and distribute OpenFOAM as free, open source software for the benefit of its users. The OpenFOAM Foundation is the independent distributor of OpenFOAM.The current version is 10. In 2014, the development line of OpenFOAM, known as “OpenFOAM-dev” was released publicly on GitHub. Since then, OpenFOAM has continued to be managed and developed with new versions being released to the public each year. OpenFOAM was created by Henry Weller in 1989 under the name “FOAM” and was released open source as “OpenFOAM” by Henry Weller, Chris Greenshields and Mattijs Janssens in December 2004. The GPL gives users the freedom to modify and redistribute the software and a guarantee of continued free use, within the terms of the licence. OpenFOAM is the leading free, open source software for computational fluid dynamics (CFD), owned by the OpenFOAM Foundation and distributed exclusively under the General Public Licence (GPL). OpenFOAM is the leading free, open source software for computational fluid dynamics (CFD).

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