These are the utilities distributed with OpenFOAM
Contents
1 errorEstimation
2 Mesh
2.1 advanced
2.2 conversion
- cfxToFoam Converts a CFX mesh to OpenFOAM format.
- fluentMeshToFoam Converts a Fluent mesh to OpenFOAM format.
- foamMeshToFluent Writes out the OpenFOAM mesh in Fluent mesh format.
- gambitToFoam Converts a GAMBIT mesh to OpenFOAM format.
- gmshToFoam Reads .msh file as written by Gmsh. Does not use physical type of mesh quantities yet.
- ideasToFoam Converts an ANSYS input mesh file, exported from I-DEAS, to OpenFOAM format.
- kivaToFoam Converts a KIVA3v grid to OpenFOAM format.
- mshToFoam Reads .msh format generated by the Adventure system.
- sammToFoam Converts a STAR-CD SAMM mesh to OpenFOAM format.
- starToFoam Converts a STAR-CD PROSTAR mesh into OpenFOAM format.
- tetgenToFoam Reads .ele and .node and .face files as written by tetgen.
- writeMeshObj For mesh debugging: writes mesh as three separate OBJ files which can be viewed with e.g. javaview.
2.3 generation
- blockMesh Mesh generator.
- makePolyMesh Constructs a polyMesh from a shapeMesh.
2.4 manipulation
- attachMesh Attach topologically detached mesh using prescribed mesh modifiers.
- autoPatch Divides external faces into patches based on (user supplied) feature angle.
- cellSet Selects a cell set through a dictionary.
- checkMesh Checks validity of a mesh.
- couplePatches Utility to reorder cyclic and processor patches. Is now all built-in into morphing so reuse that code.
- createPatch Utility to create patches out of selected boundary faces. Faces come either from existing patches or from a faceSet.
- deformedGeom Deforms a polyMesh using a displacement field U and a scaling factor supplied as an argument.
- faceSet Selects a face set through a dictionary.
- fieldToCellSet Select cells based on field. Give min and max to select.
- flattenMesh Flatten the front and back planes of a 2D cartesian mesh.
- mergeMeshes Merge two meshes.
- mirrorMesh Mirrors a mesh around a given plane.
- moveEngineMesh Solver for moving meshes for engine calculations.
- moveMesh Solver for moving meshes.
- objToVTK Read obj line (not surface!) file and convert into vtk.
- pointSet Selects a point set through a dictionary.
- refineMesh Utility to refine cells in multiple directions. Either supply -all option to refine all cells (3D refinement for 3D cases; 2D for 2D cases) or reads a refineMeshDict with - cellSet to refine - directions to refine.
- refineShapeMesh Refines a region of a shapeMesh according to parameters specified in a refineShapeMeshDict dictionary.
- renumberMesh Renumbers the cell list in order to reduce the bandwidth, reading and renumbering all fields from all the time directories.
- scalePoints Scales the mesh points in the polyMesh directory by a factor supplied as an argument.
- splitMesh Splits mesh by making internal faces external. Uses attachDetach.
- splitMeshRegions Splits mesh into multiple regions and writes them to consecutive time directories. Each region is defined as a domain whose cells can all be reached by cell-face-cell walking. Uses meshWave.
- subsetMesh Selects a section of mesh based on a cellSet.
- tetDecomposition Takes a mesh and decomposes it into tetrahedra using a face-cell centre decomposition.
- zipUpMesh Reads in a mesh with hanging vertices and zips up the cells to guarantee that all polyhedral cells of valid shape are closed.
3 miscellaneous
4 parallelProcessing
5 Post-processing
5.1 Data converters
- foamDataToFluent Translates OpenFOAM data to Fluent format.
- foamToDX Translates OpenFOAM data to OpenDX format.
- foamToEnsight Translates OpenFOAM data to EnSight format.
- foamToFieldview Write out the OpenFOAM mesh in Fieldview-UNS format (binary). See Fieldview Release 8 Reference Manual - Appendix D (Unstructured Data Format) Borrows various from uns/write_binary_uns.c from FieldView dist.
- foamToFieldview9 Write out the OpenFOAM mesh in Version 3.0 Fieldview-UNS format (binary). See Fieldview Release 9 Reference Manual - Appendix D (Unstructured Data Format) Borrows various from uns/write_binary_uns.c from FieldView dist.
- foamToVTK Legacy VTK file format writer. - handles volScalar, volVector, pointScalar, pointVector fields. - mesh topo changes. - both ascii and binary. - single time step writing. - write subset only. - automatic decomposition of cells; polygons on boundary undecomposed since handled by vtk
- smapToFoam Translates a STAR-CD SMAP data file into OpenFOAM field format.
5.2 Graphics
- dxFoamExec Post-processing graphics using openDX.
- ensight74FoamExec Module for EnSight 7.6 to read OpenFOAM data directly without translation.
- ensight76FoamExec Module for EnSight 7.6 to read OpenFOAM data directly without translation.
5.3 Stress field
- R Calculates and writes the Reynolds stress R for the current time step.
- Rcomponents Calculates and writes the scalar fields of the six components of the Reynolds stress R for each time in a database.
- stressComponents Calculates and writes the scalar fields of the six components of the stress tensor sigma for each time in a database.
5.4 Velocity field
- Co Configurable graph drawing program.
- divU Calculates and writes the divergence of velocity field U at each time in a database.
- enstrophy Calculates and writes the enstrophy of velocity field U at each time in a database.
- Lambda2 Calculates and writes the second largest eigenvalue of the sum of the square of the symmetrical and anti-symmetrical parts of the velocity gradient tensor, at each time in a database.
- Mach Calculates and writes the local Mach number from the velocity field U at each time in a database.
- magGradU Calculates and writes the scalar magnitude of velocity field U at each time in a database.
- magU Calculates and writes the scalar magnitude of the gradient of the velocity field U at each time in a database.
- Pe Calculates and writes the Pe number as a surfaceScalarField obtained from field phi at each time in a database.
- Q Calculates and writes the second invariant of the velocity gradient tensor for each time in a database.
- streamFunction Calculates and writes the stream function of velocity field U at each time in a database.
- Ucomponents Writes the three scalar fields, Ux, Uy and Uz, for each component of the velocity field U at each time in a database.
- uprime Calculates and writes the scalar field of uprime () at each time in a database.
- vorticity Calculates and writes the vorticity of velocity field U at each time in a database.
5.5 Walls
- checkYPlus Calculates and reports yPlus for all wall patches, for each time in a database.
- wallGradU Calculates and writes the gradient of U at the wall, wallGradU, for the current time step.
- wallShearStress Calculates and writes the wall shear stress for the current time step.
- yPlusLES Calculates the yPlus of the near-wall cells for an LES.
5.6 Miscellaneous
- engineCompRatio Calculate the geometric compression ratio. Note that if you have valves and/or extra volumes it will not work, since it calculates the volume at BDC and TCD.
- liftDrag Calculates the lift and drag for each time in a database.
- postChannel Post-processes data from channel flow calculations.
- ptot For each time in a database: calculate the total pressure.
- sample Sample field data with a choice of interpolation schemes, sampling options and write formats.
- sampleSurface Surface sampling. Runs in parallel (but does not merge points).
- wdot Calculates and writes wdot for each time in a database.
6 Pre-processing
- boxTurb Makes a box of turbulence which conforms to a given energy spectrum and is divergence free,
- engineSwirl Generates a swirling flow for engine calulations.
- FoamX Case management tool.
- mapFields Maps volume fields from one mesh to another, reading and interpolating all fields present in the time directory of both cases. Parallel and non-parallel cases are handled without the need to reconstruct them first.
7 surface
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