Annual Meeting 2025
The annual openCFS meeting is intended as an open forum to exchange about openCFS or related software. Participants from industry and academic researchers share how they use openCFS to solve their modeling and simulation tasks. Developers present recently implemented new features, and the openCFS team will give a short introduction for new users and advertise less well-known functionality for advanced users. The association for the promotion of the software openCFS decided to award prizes for completing implementation projects within or related to openCFS. We will present these projects in the framework of the meeting.
- Date: Friday, 4. July 2025
- Location: TU Wien, Austria (GM 3 Vortmann lecture room, Building BA, Getreidemarkt 9, 1060 Vienna)
Registration
Please register for the meeting by email to florian.toth@tuwien.ac.at including the necessary information: Name, Affiliation, VAT-ID, Address, and desired registration type. The deadline for the registration is the 20. June 2025. An invoice will be sent to you shortly before the meeting.
All fees stated are net prices. VAT may apply. Fees include access to the talks, coffee breaks, drinks and the social event (dinner).
The social dinner will take place on Thursday evening (starting around 17:00) before the event. The location will be communicated to registered participants by email.
Regular (250 €)
For regular participants.
New member (190 €)
Reduced fee for people wanting to join the association. This registration is valid if accompanied by a filled out application form for regular membership in the association and includes the membership fee for the year of the meeting.
Member (160 €)
Members of the association are entitled to register at the reduced fee.
Student (0 €)
Students can take part at the meeting free of charge. Please register and provide a confirmation of your student-status.
Program
The meeting will start with the social dinner on Thursday (evening) and end at Friday (afternoon). The preliminary program is available here.
Funded openCFS implementation projects
The association decided to fund new implementation topics each year. The participants of the annual meeting suggested topics and voted on their favorites, which led to the selection of four projects. An implementation project should be done by a young developer, who will be supported by CFS maintainers. Upon completion (successful merge) of a project, the contributor will be awarded 1000 Euro. Contact us via GitLab if you're interested in a project.
CFSReader Plugin in ParaView
Our long established ParaView plugin for reading openCFS created HDF5 files (*.cfs) has finally been
merged into upstream ParaView.
This means you can download ParaView nightly builds with the CFSReader plugin included.
Just activate it in the Plugin Manager and enjoy visualizing openCFS simulation results.
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Features
Acoustics
Electrostatics
Mechanics
Magnetics
Piezo
Thermal
Magneto-mechanics
Vibroacoustics
Piezo-Acoustics
Magneto-mechanic-Acoustics
Thermo-mechanics
Static Analysis
Transient Analysis
Harmonic Analysis
Multi-Harmonic Analysis
Eigenfrequency Analysis
Nonconforming Grid
Model Order Reduction
Structural Optimization
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Association
Association for the promotion of the software
Verein zur Förderung der Forschung im Zusammenhang mit der Software openCFS
The association "Verein zur Förderung der Forschung im Zusammenhang mit der Software openCFS" has been founded in 2020 and its main goal is the promotion of the open source software openCFS for scientific research and education. The main objectives of the association are
- Comprehensive maintenance and further development of the open source software openCFS
- Promotion of the use of openCFS for scientific problems which are solved with the help of numerical simulation, thus leading to new, innovative products for the benefit of mankind (Technology for People)
- Promotion of the scientific documentation of openCFS and the use of openCFS in higher education
- Promotion of young scientists, especially students at universities in Austria and Germany and worldwide, in the field of numerical simulation of complex technical systems
For details see the Articles of Association (Statuten des Vereins).
Membership
Several memberships are available that allow supporting the development and marketing of openCFS. We welcome new members: just contact us by email and please attach the filled out application form with all necessary information.
Regular Membership
The regular membership entitles the member to actively support the openCFS development, take part at developer meetings as well as user meetings. The membership includes the right to vote at any meeting of the association.
Yearly membership fee: 30 €Associate Membership
The associate membership entitles the member to actively support the openCFS development, take part at developer meetings as well as user meetings. However, a right to vote at any meeting of the association is not included.
Yearly membership fee: 20 €Commercial Membership
The commercial membership entitles the member to actively support the openCFS development, take part at developer meetings as well as user meetings. Commercial members do not obtain a right to vote at any meeting of the association.
The advantage of a commercial membership are reduced participation fees for events of the association as well as discounted sponsoring rates.
Yearly membership fee: 200 € (small company), 500 € (medium company), 1000 € (large company)Student Membership
The student membership entitles the academic student member to actively support the openCFS development, take part at developer meetings
as well as user meetings.
Student members do not obtain a right to vote at any meeting of the association.
Resources
Resources
- openCFS source code repository on gitlab.com
- official releases with openCFS binary packages
- User documentation built with mkdocs
- Youtube channel containing some video tutorials
F.A.Q
Frequently Asked Questions
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Which license is openCFS using?
openCFS is using the MIT license thus allows to easily use the software in commercial companies.
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Is commercial support available?
Will be available soon.
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Is it possible to enhance the features by openCFS?
Yes, the features of openCFS can be easily enhanced in two different ways:
Customization and workflow integration is carried out by EnSimTech UG.
New physical domains or coupling can be implemented using a collaboration with the academic partners.