SMOOTHSURFACEDATA(1)

💅 SMOOTHSURFACEDATA(1) 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

smoothSurfaceData — part of OpenFOAM (The Open Source CFD Toolbox). Literally that's the name, no cap.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

smoothSurfaceData [OPTIONS] input

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Testing, pre-processing, filtering of surface field data. That's the whole vibe: testing, pre-processing, and filtering surface field data. 💅

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• input — The input surface file. That's the surface file you're feeding in, bestie.

💖 OPTIONS 💖

• -case dir — Case directory (instead of current directory).
• -decomposeParDict file — Alternative decomposePar dictionary file.
• -field name — Field <scalar> to process (default: T).
• -parallel — Run in parallel [Parallel option].
• -radius m — Specify filter radius [metres].
• -read-format type — Input format (default: ensight).
• -sweeps N — Number of median filter stages.
• -verbose — Additional verbosity (can be used multiple times).
• -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.
• -noFunctionObjects — Do not execute function objects.
• -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-man — Display full help (manpage format) and exit.
• -help-notes — Display help notes (description) and exit.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Online documentation https://www.openfoam.com/documentation/ — go click, bestie.

👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Copyright © 2018-2025 OpenCFD Ltd.

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