BUOYANTBOUSSINESQPIMPLEFOAM(1)

💖 NAME 💖

okay so bestie, meet buoyantBoussinesqPimpleFoam — she's part of OpenFOAM (The Open Source CFD Toolbox). yes, the whole toolbox. she's that girl. 👑

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

buoyantBoussinesqPimpleFoam [OPTIONS]

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So basically? She's a transient solver for buoyant, turbulent flow of incompressible fluids. And the way she does it is chef's kiss — she uses the Boussinesq approximation. that's the whole vibe. slay. 💅

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

like, here's everything she takes. read them all, don't skip, I'll know. 👀

• -case dir — tell her which case directory to use (instead of the cwd, which is where she'd look by default)
• -decomposeParDict file — use the file you specify for the decomposePar dictionary
• -dry-run — just check the case set-up, using only a single time step
• -dry-run-write — check the case set-up and write, using only a single time step
• -parallel — run in parallel 🏃♀️✨ [Parallel option]
• -postProcess — execute functionObjects only
• -doc — display documentation in your browser
• -help — display short help and exit
• -help-full — display full help and exit

🔥 ADVANCED OPTIONS 🔥

this is the deep lore section. the iykyk part.

• -debug-switch name=val — specify the value of a registered debug switch. Default is 1 if you leave the value out. (Can be used multiple times)
• -fileHandler handler — override the file handler type
• -hostRoots ((host1 dir1) .. (hostN dirN)) — per-host slave root directories for distributed running. The host specification can be a regex. 💀 [Parallel option]
• -info-switch name=val — specify the value of a registered info switch. Default is 1 if you leave the value out. (Can be used multiple times)
• -lib name — additional library or library list to load (can be used multiple times)
• -listFunctionObjects — list functionObjects
• -listFvOptions — list fvOptions
• -listRegisteredSwitches — list switches registered for run-time modification (see the -listUnsetSwitches option)
• -listScalarBCs — list scalar field boundary conditions (fvPatchField<scalar>)
• -listSwitches — list switches declared in libraries (see the -listUnsetSwitches option)
• -listTurbulenceModels — list turbulenceModels
• -listUnsetSwitches — modifies the switch listing to display values not set in etc/controlDict
• -listVectorBCs — list vector field boundary conditions (fvPatchField<vector>)
• -noFunctionObjects — do not execute function objects
• -opt-switch name=val — specify the value of a registered optimisation switch (int/bool). Default is 1 if you leave the value out. (Can be used multiple times)
• -roots (dir1 .. dirN) — slave root directories for distributed running [Parallel option]
• -doc-source — display source code in your browser
• -help-man — display full help (manpage format) and exit
• -help-notes — display help notes (description) and exit

bestie if you're about to run something in parallel, double-check those -roots and -hostRoots paths first, fr fr. 🙈

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

online documentation, right here, go be nosy: https://www.openfoam.com/documentation/

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👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Copyright © 2018-2019 OpenCFD Ltd.

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okay and for the cute sign-off: this whole thing lives over at www.openfoam.com, it's the OpenFOAM- version, and the page you just read is BUOYANTBOU...QPIMPLEFOAM(1) — yes the name is literally truncated like that, that's not me being dramatic, that's just how she shows up in the header. iconic. 💜✨🫶