Description and utilization of interFoam multiphase solver 1 General description of the OpenFOAM suite ”

Original development started in the late 1980s at Imperial College, London, motivated by a desire to find a more powerful and flexible general simulation platform than the defacto standard at the time, Fortran. Since then it has evolved by exploiting the latest advanced features of the C++ language, having been effectively re-written several times over. The predecessor, FOAM, was sold by UK company Nabla Ltd. before being released open source in 2004.