Overview
Overall aim
The overall aim of the solids4foam project is to develop an OpenFOAM toolbox for solid mechanics and fluid-solid interactions that is:
- intuitive to use for new users
- easy to understand at the case and code level
- straightforward to maintain
- uncomplicated to extend
In addition, the toolbox should be compatible will all major OpenFOAM forks, as far as reasonably possible (so far, the main features are only available with foam extend 4.0 and 4.1).
solids4foam builds on the toolboxes stressAnalysis, solidMechanics and extendBazaar
Modular Approach
Coding Style
When consistent style is not followed, reading code generated by others becomes tedious, painstaking and even impossible!
Coding style is a crucial feature of software that is easy to read, understand, maintain and extend
Fortunately, the OpenFOAM Foundation have set out a comprehensive coding style at: https://openfoam.org/dev/coding-style-guide.
Bad
Info <<“This is not good”
<< endl;
( a+b ) * ( c&d ) / (e&&f)
if(myName == “Philip”){
success = true;
}
…
Good
Info<< “That’s better”
<< endl;
(a + b)*(c & d)/(e && f)
if (myName == “Philip”)
{
success = true;
}
…
Finite Volume vs Finite Difference vs Finite Element
The finite volume method is a generalisation of the finite difference method, in terms of geometry and topology
But the methods differ in their philosophy …
