The manual for OPM Flow is made available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, version 4.0 or later.
If you find errors, inconsistencies or omissions in the manual, please post an issue at our github repository.
The current version of the manual in PDF format: OPM Flow Reference Manual 2025.04. This might be a compressed version and you may find other version at the github page for the latest release.
For how to run the simulator from python and for how to run a python script from within the simulation (PYACTION keyword), use the OPM Online Python Documentation. Here, you also find the class documentation of opm.common and opm.simulators.
If you find errors, inconsistencies or omissions in the python documentation, please post an issue at our python docu github.
Revision history:
| Date | Version |
|---|---|
| August 18, 2025 | 2025-04 |
| March 19, 2025 | 2024-10 |
| September 17, 2024 | 2024-04 |
| March 15, 2024 | 2023-10 |
| June 8, 2023 | 2023-04 |
| December 14, 2022 | 2022-10 |
| May 18, 2022 | 2022-04 Rev-0 |
| November 17, 2021 | 2021-10 Rev-0 |
| June 28, 2021 | 2021-04 Rev-1 |
| June 17, 2020 | 2021-04 Rev-0 |
| December 23, 2020 | 2020-10 Rev-0 |
| August 21, 2020 | 2020-4 Rev-1 |
| May 25, 2020 | 2020-4 Rev-0 |
| December 5, 2019 | 2019-10 Rev-1 |
| June 20, 2019 | 2019-04 Rev-0 |
| January 2, 2019 | 2018-10 Rev-2 |
| November 11, 2018 | 2018-10 Rev-1 |
| October 4, 2017 | 2017-10 Rev-0 |
BibTeX reference for the manual:
@book{flowmanual,
author = {
Matthew Goodfield and David Baxendale and Tobias Meyer Andersen and
Jostein Alvestad and Kai Bao and Markus Blatt and
Joshua Charles Bowden and Artur Castiel Reis de Souza and Paul Egberts and
Joakim Hove and Negar Khoshnevis Garga and Håkon Hægland and
Vegard Kippe and Peter Kirkham and Robert Klöfkorn and
Stein Krogstad and Arne Morten Kvarving and David Landa-Marbán and
Andreas Lauser and Kjetil Olsen Lye and Cintia Goncalves Machado and
Lisa Julia Nebel and Halvor Møll Nilsen and Atgeirr Flø Rasmussen and
Antonella Ritorto and Alf Birger Rustad and Tor Harald Sandve and
Erik Hide Sæternes Ove Sævareid and Bård Skaflestad and Torbjørn Skille
and Jakob Torben and Michal Tóth and Svenn Tveit and Pieter J. Verveer
},
title = {OPM Flow Reference Manual (2025-04)},
publisher = {Open Porous Media initiative},
year = {2025},
url = {https://opm-project.org/?page_id=955}
}