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Annotations concerning the OpenFOAM User Guide

Notes to contributors: Please include the chapter number of the printed version to avoid confusion (the Wiki might give different chapter numbers)

1 Chapter 1: Introduction

2 Chapter 2: Tutorials

3 Chapter 3: Applications and libraries

4 Chapter 4: OpenFOAM cases

4.1 Chapter 4.2: Basic input/output file format

• A table of the most the fields written

4.2 Chapter 4.4: Numerical schemes

Contrary to what is stated in table 4.11 (Discretisation schemes available in ddtSchemes) CRNK is not bounded, see also P-42

5 Chapter 5: The FoamX case manager

FoamX is obsolete as of version 1.5.

Getting FoamX compiled (and running) with the correct java version and CORBA interface was reportedly getting more and more difficult ... and end-users always seemed to encounter numerous problems getting it working with their particular java and network environment.

Besides which, using FoamX to edit dictionaries is comparable to performing keyhole surgery.

By dropping FoamX (and avoiding the additional work of creating a java-compatible interface for each feature), the developers could introduce very interesting and useful dictionary functionality fairly quickly:

• improved #include directive
• new #inputMode directive
• new $entry sub-dictionary expansions (try them - they are really cool)
• new regular expression matching for dictionary entries (in an upcoming version)

6 Chapter 6: Mesh generation and conversion

6.1 Section 6.3: Mesh generation with the blockMesh utility

6.1.1 6.3.1.3: The blocks

: Starting with OpenFOAM 1.3 blocks can be now assigned to cellZones (The syntax is similar to the now obsolete blockMeshWithSets-utility).

6.2 Section 6.4: Mesh conversion

6.2.1 6.4.2: starToFoam

In section 6.4.2.6 there is a reference to the foamCorrectVrt-utility which can not be found in any of the 1.0.2, 1.1 and 1.2 distributions. Looking at the source I would say that this problem is already fixed by the current versions of starToFoam (but I can't test this theory because I have no StarCD).

7 Chapter 7: Post-processing

8 Chapter 8: Models and physical properties

9 Appendix A: Reference information