SETTURBULENCEFIELDS(1)

💖 setTurbulenceFields(1) 💖

okay so bestie, this is setTurbulenceFields(1) from the OpenFOAM Commands Manual — and yes, we're gonna get through every single flag together, no cap 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

setTurbulenceFields — part of OpenFOAM (The Open Source CFD Toolbox). That's the whole name-and-shame, short and iconic 💅

🌀 SYNOPSIS 🌀

setTurbulenceFields [OPTIONS]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

It sets initial turbulence fields based on various empirical equations. That's the main character energy of this tool: empirical equations doing the turbulence-field setup ✨

👑 OPTIONS 👑

• -case dir — case directory (instead of current directory). iykyk, point it at the case you want 💖
• -decomposeParDict file — alternative decomposePar dictionary file 🧚
• -dict file — alternative setTurbulenceFieldsDict 🌸
• -parallel — run in parallel. [Parallel option] 🔥
• -region name — specify mesh region (default: region0) 🦋
• -doc — display documentation in browser 💻
• -help — display short help and exit 👋
• -help-full — display full help and exit 💫

🧚 ADVANCED OPTIONS 🧚

• -debug-switch name=val — set named DebugSwitch (default value: 1). [Can be used multiple times] 🐛
• -fileHandler handler — override the file handler type 📁
• -hostRoots ((host1 dir1) .. (hostN dirN)) — per-subprocess root directories for distributed running. The host specification can be a regex. [Parallel option] 🌐
• -info-switch name=val — set named InfoSwitch (default value: 1). [Can be used multiple times] 💬
• -lib name — additional library or library list to load. [Can be used multiple times] 📚
• -mpi-no-comm-dup — disable initial MPI_Comm_dup() 🚫
• -mpi-split-by-appnum — split world communicator based on the APPNUM 🪄
• -mpi-threads — request use of MPI threads 🧵
• -no-libs — disable use of the controlDict 'libs' entry 🛑
• -opt-switch name=val — set named OptimisationSwitch (default value: 1). [Can be used multiple times] ⚡
• -roots (dir1 .. dirN) — subprocess root directories for distributed running. [Parallel option] 🌳
• -world name — name of the local world for parallel communication. [Parallel option] 🌍
• -doc-source — display source code in browser 🧾
• -help-compat — display compatibility options and exit 🫶
• -help-man — display full help (manpage format) and exit 📖
• -help-notes — display help notes (description) and exit 📝

💀 COMPATIBILITY OPTIONS 💀

• -noFunctionObjects — this option is ignored. literally ignored, bestie, don't expect it to do stuff 😭

🔗 SEE ALSO 🔗

Online documentation: https://www.openfoam.com/documentation/ — go click, it's giving official ✨

🎀 COPYRIGHT 🎀

Copyright © 2018-2025 OpenCFD Ltd. — periodt, protect the copyright 💜

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