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title	DAFoam: Discrete Adjoint with OpenFOAM for High-fidelity Multidisciplinary Design Optimization
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The 2025 DAFoam online workshop is open for registration! Details.

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DAFoam develops an efficient discrete adjoint method to perform high-fidelity multidisciplinary design optimization. DAFoam has the following features:

• It uses a popular open-source package OpenFOAM for multiphysics analysis.
• It implements a Jacobian-free discrete adjoint approach with competitive speed, scalability, and accuracy.
• It has a convenient Python interface to couple with OpenMDAO for multidisciplinary design optimization.

DAFoam is distributed using the GPL-v3 license, and its source code is available from Github

Download the DAFoam image and follow the rest of the steps in Get started to run your first DAFoam optimization!

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