Main HowTos

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He'll teach you how to pick and choose
And how to throw the blade.
Bob Dylan (One more cup of coffee)


A How-To is a text that tells you "how to do something". (So far this is an unstructured list. If there is enough stuff it will get a structure).

So far the How-Tos will be sorted by their completion status

1 How-Tos that can be of help

These How-Tos are in a finished state. In other words: their authors think, that there is not much that can be improved.

Installation of OF-1.4.1 - Guide to newbies and experienced users of Linux

An easy step-by-step guide to compile OpenFOAM-dev

A complete guide to the compilation of OpenFOAM and of the tools necessary to build it

Port Utilities from older versions of OpenFOAM to version 1.3

Porting open Foam to a new (unsupported) platform

Setting up dynamic mesh cases

General debugging tips

Browsing the documentation while offline

How to prepare XEmacs/Emacs for the correct indentation

How to quickly change the mesh with blockMesh

How to postprocess multiple regions.

How to install OpenFOAM on Ubuntu (external link - does not work) Maybe this one is working

Make OpenFOAM work with any Message Passing Library

Import a fluent mesh with interfaces

Write OpenFOAM meshes

OpenFOAM and Subversion

How to add temperature to icoFoam

Integrating the Doxygen-documentation as a seach engine in Firefox

2 How-Tos that are only planned/fragments

If you feel like writing these: go ahead (but before you do: move them to the next section)

Adding a new solver to FoamX

Adding a new wall-function.

Adding a new transport equation to a solver

Using the WaveTransmissiveBoundaryCondition

3 How-Tos that are being worked on

These How-Tos have found someone who wants to write them. After completion they will be moved to the top section.

Importing a FLUENT mesh with internal walls

Compiling OpenFOAM under Unix

Installing OpenFOAM on a Mac OS X

Compiling OpenFOAM on a Mac OS X

How to calculate mass flux with a variable density flow

Adding a new boundary condition.

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