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💖 particleTracks — aka the OpenFOAM particle-track-to-VTK girlie 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the particleTracks page, part of OpenFOAM (The Open Source CFD Toolbox), manual section 1. yes she's a command, yes she's iconic, and yes she has a LOT of flags. let's get into it 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

particleTracks [OPTIONS]

like... that's it. that's the whole vibe. options only, no positional args, she's low maintenance fr fr 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So what does she actually do? particleTracks generates a legacy VTK file of particle tracks — but only for cases that were computed using a tracked-parcel-type cloud. no cap. if your case isn't using that kind of cloud, she's not gonna have anything to say, and honestly? fair. 🎀

👑 OPTIONS 👑

the main character list. read them all, they're all here, nobody's getting skipped ✨

  • -case dir — tell her which case directory to use instead of just vibing in the cwd (current working directory, iykyk)
  • -constant — include the constant/ dir in the times list. yes queen, add the constant 💖
  • -decomposeParDict file — use the specified file as the decomposePar dictionary
  • -latestTime — select the latest time. only the freshest one, she doesn't do throwbacks 🦋
  • -noZero — exclude the 0/ dir from the times list
  • -parallel — run in parallel. [Parallel option] — she can multitask, obviously 🔥
  • -region name — specify an alternative mesh region
  • -time ranges — list of ranges. eg ':10,20 40:70 1000:', 'none', etc. (the 'none' option really said "no times, we're resting" 😭)
  • -doc — display documentation in browser
  • -help — display short help and exit
  • -help-full — display full help and exit. she's thorough, periodt ✨

🧚 ADVANCED OPTIONS 🧚

ngl these are the deep-lore options. you don't need them but they're giving main character energy 🌈

  • -debug-switch name=val — specify the value of a registered debug switch. default is 1 if the value is omitted. (can be used multiple times — she's flexible like that 💅)
  • -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 the value is omitted. (can be used multiple times)
  • -lib name — additional library or library list to load (can be used multiple times) 📚
  • -noFunctionObjects — do not execute function objects
  • -opt-switch name=val — specify the value of a registered optimisation switch (int/bool). default is 1 if the value is omitted. (can be used multiple times) ⭐
  • -roots (dir1 .. dirN) — slave root directories for distributed running. [Parallel option]
  • -doc-source — display source code in browser 👀
  • -help-man — display full help (manpage format) and exit
  • -help-notes — display help notes (description) and exit

🔍 SEE ALSO 🔍

online documentation, bestie, go read it: https://www.openfoam.com/documentation/ 🌐

Copyright © 2018-2019 OpenCFD Ltd.

okay that's the whole page, you ate that 💅✨ this was particleTracks from the OpenFOAM Commands Manual, served up fresh from www.openfoam.com, running the OpenFOAM- version (yep, the version string is literally just hanging there with nothing after the dash, we love a mystery 🎀). no date on this one either — she's timeless, she's eternal, she's giving undated-icon energy 🦋. bye bestie, go track some particles fr fr 💖

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