PIMPLEFOAM(1)

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💖 PIMPLEFOAM(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the OpenFOAM Commands Manual section for pimpleFoam — she's iconic, she's transient, and she's about to eat. 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

pimpleFoam — part of OpenFOAM (The Open Source CFD Toolbox). that's the whole name, she's not gonna overshare. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

pimpleFoam [OPTIONS]

like, that's it. that's the whole summoning ritual. no cap. 🎀

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so basically she's a transient solver for incompressible, turbulent flow of Newtonian fluids on a moving mesh. yes, the mesh MOVES, she's flexible like that. main character energy fr fr. 🔥

👑 OPTIONS 👑

the little flags you can hand her. each one is a vibe, pick your faves:

  • -case dir — specify the case directory to use instead of the cwd. like, "not here, over THERE." 📁
  • -decomposeParDict file — use the specified file for the decomposePar dictionary
  • -dry-run — check the case set-up only, using a single time step. a little dress rehearsal, no commitment. 💀
  • -dry-run-write — check the case set-up AND write, still only using a single time step
  • -parallel — run in parallel [Parallel option]
  • -postProcess — execute functionObjects only
  • -doc — display documentation in browser 🌈
  • -help — display short help and exit
  • -help-full — display full help and exit

🍓 ADVANCED OPTIONS 🍓

the deep lore. iykyk. 🙈

  • -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)
  • -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)
  • -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 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, go get your reading on: https://www.openfoam.com/documentation/

Copyright © 2018-2019 OpenCFD Ltd.

okay that's the whole page, you're so welcome. this little legend lives over at www.openfoam.com, stamped with OpenFOAM- as her source/version, and she's dated and filed under PIMPLEFOAM(1) — slay, bye, go run your solver bestie 💖✨🦋

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