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These are things that are neither a solver, a utility or an example case and could nevertheless be of use for other Foamers.

1 Libraries for OpenFOAM

Stuff that is usually linked into dynamic libraries (.so in Linux)

1.1 Boundary conditions

• timeVaryingNonuniformFixedValue: A boundary condition to prescribe temporally and spatially varying values on a patch

• pressureTransmissive: A port of the popular OpenFOAM 1.3 boundary condition to OF 1.4.1

• wallHeatFlux: Fixed Heat flux boundary condition for incompressible thermal flow under Boussinesq-Approximation

• groovyBC: A boundary condition that allows the specification via expressions, similar to funkySetFields

• wallRadiationTemperature: A radiation coupled boundary condition for buoyantSimpleRadiationFoam.

1.2 Function objects

• simpleFunctionObjects: A collection of almost trivial functionObjects
• IOH5Write: A function object for writing fields and clouds into HDF5 file format, along with auxiliary scripts for handling the data in HDF5 format.

1.3 Turbulence models

• boussinesqTurbulentModelsRAS: Library of RAS turbulence model under Boussinesq-Approximation

• kEpsilonViollet: Library of incompressible k-epsilon turbulent model with Viollet type buoyancy term

1.4 Other

• equationReader: An extension to OpenFOAM's core library that allows you to use equations in dictionaries.
• multiSolver: A library that allows you to run more than one solver in series on the same dataset.
• swak4Foam: Library for user-defined expression. Should replace contrib funkySetFields and contrib groovyBC
• IOReferencer: A simple piece of code that allows you to look up non-IOobjects from the objectRegistry. E.g.: db().lookupObject<scalar>("banana");
• waves2Foam: A collection of libraries, solvers, boundary conditions, pre-processing tools and tutorials to be used for modelling surface water waves.
• Janaf: Both the description of the old Janaf architecture, as well as a possible more advanced Janaf system.
• solidMechanics: Tool-kit for OpenFOAM of solid mechanics solvers that employ the finite volume method (not finite elements) to numerically approximate the displacements and stresses in solid bodies undergoing deformation.
• LibOpenSMOKE: Tool-kit for OpenFOAM of a combustion model based on the steady-state laminar flamelet theory.

2 Libraries for other languages

Stuff in these sections helps other programming languages than C++ to interact with OpenFOAM

• PyFoam: A python library to control OpenFOAM runs.
• pythonFlu is the python wrapping for OpenFOAM C++ API.

3 Patches

These are patches that are to be applied to an OpenFOAM-installation. Only use these if

1. you are sure you need them
2. you know what you are doing

because they can alter the behaviour of your OpenFOAM-stuff (making it impossible for other people to help you)

• plugIn.patch: an extension to OF that allows the run-time loading of additional libraries

• regIOobject.patch: Fix potential problem when reading controlDict during parallel execution

4 Toolkits

• OpenFuelCell: toolkit project for developing open source computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software to model fuel cells using OpenFOAM technology.

5 Other

• benchFoam: A benchmark script that is based on PyFoam to run OpenFOAM benchmarks

• makeApplicationList.py: A script that generates a list of the applications in a directory (with descriptions)

• SwiftBlock: An addon for Blender for creating/configuring blockMeshDict.

• SwiftSnap: An addon for Blender for creating/configuring snappyHexMeshDict.