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πŸ’– PATCHSUMMARY(1) πŸ’–

okay bestie, gather round, because we're doing the OpenFOAM Commands Manual thing and this one is literally called patchSummary β€” it's part of OpenFOAM (The Open Source CFD Toolbox), which is the whole vibe. πŸ¦‹


✨ NAME ✨

patchSummary β€” part of OpenFOAM (The Open Source CFD Toolbox). that's it, that's the name, she's lowkey mysterious like that πŸ’…


🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

patchSummary [OPTIONS]

πŸŽ€ DESCRIPTION πŸŽ€

so what does she do, you ask? bestie. she writes field and boundary condition info for each patch at each requested time instance. that's the whole job. no cap. it's giving "here's your receipts, one patch at a time" 🧚


πŸ‘‘ OPTIONS πŸ‘‘

  • -case dir β€” tell her which case directory to use instead of the cwd (the current working directory, iykyk)
  • -constant β€” slip the constant/ dir into the times list, let her in 🫢
  • -decomposeParDict file β€” use this specific file for the decomposePar dictionary, thank you very much
  • -expand β€” do NOT combine patches. leave them separated. let them be individuals πŸ’œ
  • -latestTime β€” just grab the latest time, she's not doing the whole timeline today
  • -noZero β€” kick the 0/ dir OUT of the times list. she's not invited πŸ™ˆ
  • -parallel β€” run in parallel. [Parallel option] πŸ”₯
  • -region name β€” specify an alternative mesh region, because sometimes one mesh just isn't the moment
  • -time ranges β€” a list of ranges. eg ':10,20 40:70 1000:', 'none', etc. pick your time era ⭐
  • -doc β€” display documentation in the browser 🌈
  • -help β€” display short help and exit, bye bestie
  • -help-full β€” display the FULL help and exit, she's thorough πŸ’…

πŸ’« ADVANCED OPTIONS πŸ’«

  • -debug-switch name=val β€” set the value of a registered debug switch. default is 1 if you omit the value. (can be used multiple times, she's flexible like that)
  • -fileHandler handler β€” override the file handler type
  • -hostRoots ((host1 dir1) .. (hostN dirN)) β€” per-host slave root directories for distributed running. the host specification can be a regex. [Parallel option] πŸ”₯
  • -info-switch name=val β€” set the value of a registered info switch. default is 1 if the value is omitted. (can be used multiple times)
  • -lib name β€” additional library or library list to load (can be used multiple times, she's collecting them πŸŽ€)
  • -noFunctionObjects β€” do not execute function objects. periodt.
  • -opt-switch name=val β€” set 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) β€” slave root directories for distributed running [Parallel option]
  • -doc-source β€” display source code in the browser πŸ‘€
  • -help-man β€” display full help (manpage format) and exit
  • -help-notes β€” display help notes (description) and exit

πŸ¦‹ SEE ALSO πŸ¦‹

Online documentation at https://www.openfoam.com/documentation/ β€” go read it, bestie, it's iconic


Copyright Β© 2018-2019 OpenCFD Ltd.


ngl this page came straight from www.openfoam.com, the OpenFOAM- release, and yes the date on the footer is literally just sitting there empty β€” she's mysterious like that. PATCHSUMMARY(1), signing off 🫢✨🌸