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Posts by John Rising on the design, verification, and limits of OpenFLUME. Newest first.

• 2026-11-04Building OpenFLUME with AI

  I couldn't have done it as well without AI. I would have let AI do it all, if it could. It couldn't.

• 2026-11-04Recreating NASA's GFSSP compressible-flow verification paper in a browser

  OpenFLUME's recreation of the TFAWS-2007 GFSSP study, case by case. Fanno, Rayleigh, combined, and C-D nozzle flow against analytic references.

• 2026-11-01Introducing OpenFLUME

  An open-source thermo-fluid network solver that runs in your browser, why I wanted one for over a decade, and how to check whether it's right.