I will be more specific here. I am trying to simulate a two dimensional mhd flow through an MPD thruster. I have the euler equations with coupled electric and magnetic field. I prefer using opensource products and I am comfortable with python and fortran. I want to know if a mesh from gmsh or netgen could be directly used for the code. I have written codes only using basic fdm. I haven't even written any complex fvm codes. But I am planning to develop three codes using mhd, DSMC and PIC methods. And I am not an expert in any of these. I am conducting experiments too although I don't need any help in that part. I would really like some expert input on the problem that I have on hand. Expecting some good answers.
@Sargon Gabrie Thank you for your answer. I like OpenFoam a lot. Its very professional and gives the power that even commercial CFD codes fail to offer. Could you please point me in the right direction to writing a solver for specific problems using OpenFoam? That would be a great help. I feel the programmers guide isn't complete. One more problem is that i am more of a fortran guy who likes to glue things with python. Picking up c++ won't be big problem though i guess.
MHD solvers have been written in openFOAM upon which you can build. It looks like a group has contributed this to the extend project. Take a look here to start: http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/MhdFoam
Here it is solved the issue on windows installation.
But I heard that openfoam is an "incompressible magnetohydrodynamic equation solver" that works only with non compressed fluids, perhaps it is not the best suite for MHD.
http://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/openfoam-installation-windows-mac/113510-openfoam-win7-64-cannot-find-paraview-exe.html
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