The User's Guide for the High Speed Aerodynamic solver (HiSA) can be downloaded here.

The following paper contains some background theory:

• J.A. Heyns, O.F. Oxtoby and A. Steenkamp, Modelling high-speed flow using a matrix-free coupled solver. 9th OpenFOAM Workshop, 23-26 June 2014, Zagreb, Croatia

The following are some publications which make use of the HiSA solver:

• Ll Macia, R. Castilla, P.J. Gamez-Montero, S. Camacho and E. Codina, Numerical Simulation of a Supersonic Ejector for Vacuum Generation with Explicit and Implicit Solver in Openfoam. Energies 2019, 12, 3353
• A.L. Habermann, A. Gokhale and M. Hornung, Numerical investigation of the effects of fuselage upsweep in a propulsive fuselage concept. CEAS Aeronautical Journal (2021) 12:173-189
• S. Abuhanieh, B. Bi̇çer and M. Sahin, A validation for the OpenFOAM-HiSA solver for drag prediction. 32nd International Conference on Parallel Computational Dynamics, 17-19 May 2021, Nice, France
• S. Abuhanieh, H.U. Akay and B. Bi̇çer, A new strategy for solving store separation problems using OpenFOAM. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering, (2022) 236
• Ll Macia, R. Castilla, P.J. Gamez-Montero and G. Raush, Multi-Factor Design for a Vacuum Ejector Improvement by In-Depth Analysis of Construction Parameters. Sustainability 2022, 14, 10195
• S. Oliani, N. Casari and M. Carnavale, A New Framework for the Harmonic Balance Method in OpenFOAM. Machines, (2022) 10(4):279
• S. Oliani, N. Casari and M. Carnevale, ICSFoam: An OpenFOAM library for implicit coupled simulations of high-speed flows. Computer Physics Communications (2023) 286
• S. Abuhanieh, Development of a steady-state computational fluid dynamics solver for transonic rotorcraft flows. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering, (2024) 238(6)
• Bosung Lee, Validation of the NASA ROBIN helicopter model using the OpenFOAM HiSA solver. 2026