Install OpenFOAM-3 using Docker

OpenFOAM-3.Dockerfile

# OpenFOAM-3 can be installed on ubuntu 14.04 LTS
FROM ubuntu:trusty


# Install dependency and some softwares
#   NOTE that you should not install build-essential as it clashes with
#   the version of the compiler that openfoam is build with
RUN : \
    && apt-get update \
    && apt-get install -y \
        git wget make tmux \
        software-properties-common \
        tree


# Install OpenFOAM
#   NOTE that I change the value of WM_PROJECT_USER_DIR to /home/openfoam directory
#   this is to prevent openfoam from creating a OpenFOAM/openfoam-3 directory in home
Run : \
    && add-apt-repository http://dl.openfoam.org/ubuntu \
    && sh -c "wget -O - http://dl.openfoam.org/gpg.key | apt-key add -" \
    && apt-get update \
    && apt-get -y install openfoam30 \
    && sed -i 's#export WM_PROJECT_USER_DIR=$HOME/$WM_PROJECT/$USER-$WM_PROJECT_VERSION#export WM_PROJECT_USER_DIR=$HOME#' /opt/openfoam30/etc/bashrc \
    && echo '. /opt/openfoam30/etc/bashrc' >> /etc/bash.bashrc


# Add a user (with password of '1234')
RUN : \
    && useradd -m openfoam -s /bin/bash -u 1000 \
    && usermod -aG sudo openfoam \
    && echo 'openfoam:1234' | chpasswd


WORKDIR /home/openfoam


# Switch to openfoam user
CMD su openfoam

openfoam3-docker.md

OpenFOAM-3

OpenFOAM (openfoam.org) does not provide a docker image for OpenFOAM-3.

Installation

mkdir ~/OpenFOAM/$USER-3
mkdir ~/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-3

pushd $_

Now download The Dockerfile above and put it in the OpenFOAM-3 directory with the name Dockerfile. Then build the OpenFOAM-3 image

# Build an OpenFOAM-3 docker image from this Dockerfile
docker build -t openfoam-3 .

Now run openfoam-3 containers per below

# Set alias for this long command
#   For subsequent shell sessions put this into your shell config
alias of3='cd $HOME/OpenFOAM/$USER-3 && docker run -v $PWD:/home/openfoam -it --rm openfoam-3'

# Now Load OpenFOAM-3 environment with
of3