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   from complex fluid flows involving chemical reactions, turbulence and heat
   transfer, to solid dynamics and electromagnetics.
 
+* About Combustion Laboratory
+  Combustion Laboratory is a free, open source computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software
+  package released by the OpenFOAM Foundation. It has a large user base across
+
 * Copyright
   OpenFOAM is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
   terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software