PDRBLOCKMESH(1)

✨ NAME ✨

Okay bestie, welcome to the OpenFOAM Commands Manual entry for PDRblockMesh 🎀 It's part of OpenFOAM (The Open Source CFD Toolbox) and it is so iconic 💅

💖 SYNOPSIS 💖

PDRblockMesh [OPTIONS]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so PDRblockMesh is a block mesh generator that builds a rectilinear mesh in x-y-z. It's giving precision 📐✨

Here's how the vertex and face labels inside a block are numbered 🧚 The local vertices go from 0 to 7, and the faces are:

• Faces 0, 1 → x-min, x-max
• Faces 2, 3 → y-min, y-max
• Faces 4, 5 → z-min, z-max

                    7 ---- 6
             f5     |\     |\     f3
             |      | 4 ---- 5     \
             |      3 |--- 2 |      \
             |       \|     \|      f2
             f4       0 ---- 1
Y  Z
 \ |                f0 ------ f1
  \|
   O--- X

🌸 OPTIONS 🌸

• -case dir — pick the case directory you want to use 📂 (instead of the cwd, which is wherever you already are)
• -dict file — swap in an alternative dictionary for the PDRblockMesh description 📖
• -noClean — don't remove any existing polyMesh/ directory or its files, so they stay safe 🙅‍♀️
• -time time — choose the time you want to write the mesh to (default: constant) ⏰
• -doc — pop the documentation open in your browser 🌐
• -help — show a short help message and exit 👋
• -help-full — show the full help and exit 📜

🎀 ADVANCED OPTIONS 🎀

These ones are for the power users 👑

• -debug-switch name=val — set the value of a registered debug switch. If you leave the value off, it defaults to 1. You can use this multiple times 🔁
• -fileHandler handler — override the file handler type 🗂️
• -info-switch name=val — set the value of a registered info switch. If you leave the value off, it defaults to 1. You can use this multiple times 🔁
• -lib name — load an additional library or library list (you can use this multiple times) 📚
• -opt-switch name=val — set the value of a registered optimisation switch (int/bool). If you leave the value off, it defaults to 1. You can use this multiple times 🔁
• -doc-source — display the source code in your browser 🧑‍💻
• -help-compat — show the compatibility options and exit 🔙
• -help-man — show the full help in manpage format and exit 📄
• -help-notes — show the help notes (description) and exit 🗒️

🍓 COMPATIBILITY OPTIONS 🍓

• -noFunctionObjects — this one gets ignored, so it does absolutely nothing 🙈

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

Online documentation: https://www.openfoam.com/documentation/ 💜

👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Copyright © 2018-2019 OpenCFD Ltd. 🌈

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