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What I've done in the past years and may need someone else to pick it back up

Posted August 18, 2020 at 17:11 by wyldckat
Updated August 22, 2020 at 06:13 by wyldckat

This is a blog post aimed to pass on the baton of the work I've done in the past to anyone who wants to pick it back up partially or completely, which I was still doing (or trying to do) until Hanging my volunteer gloves and moving to a new phase of my life.


This blog post could potentially be edited as time goes on and I remember about things I've done in the past and which should be picked up by someone else:
  1. Generating version template pages and logos for said versions
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Hanging my volunteer gloves and moving to a new phase of my life

Posted August 18, 2020 at 17:10 by wyldckat
Updated August 19, 2020 at 06:47 by wyldckat

TL;DR: As of 2020, I can only help during office hours, at work, if paid and/or affects our projects, namely what we use in OpenFOAM itself and blueCFD-Core.

Full post:
So nearly 2 years after my blog post Why I contribute to the OpenFOAM forum(s), wiki(s) and the public community, I'm writing this blog post you are reading now.

My last 3 thread posts at the forums in CFD-Online this year, were on May 7th, February 27th and January 20th. And before that, it was 10...
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10 crucial parameters to check before committing to a CFD software for academia

Posted August 4, 2020 at 13:11 by thunde47

I have put together a comprehensive list of 10 crucial parameters that you, as a researcher or a teacher, should check with the CFD software provider, before committing to their software.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/10-cr...CEqwYpmA%3D%3D
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Compilation of OpenFOAM v1912 with runTimePostProcessing

Posted July 17, 2020 at 07:08 by snak

runTimePostProcessing functionality is not available in precompiled packages of v1912.

I will note how to compile OFv1912 with runTimePostProcessing.

Code:
cd $WM_THIRD_PARTY_DIR
makeParaView
check the VTK version with the following command.

Code:
cat ParaView-v5.6.3/VTK/CMake/vtkVersion.cmake
If the version is 8.2.0, create a link with the name of VTK-8.2.0.

Code:
ln -s ParaView-v5.6.3/VTK/ VTK-8.2.0
Now, compile the VTK.

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solids4Foam + sixDoFRigidBodyDisplaceme nt

Posted March 8, 2020 at 17:43 by Michael@UW

[QUOTE=bigphil;760919][LIST][*]D is the total displacement[*]DD is the increment of displacement i.e. DD = D - D_0[*]D_0 is the old-time total displacement[*]U is the velocity[*]pointD is D interpolated (in the solver) to the mesh points: this interpolation is a but more accurate than the interpolation by ParaView[*]similarly pointDD is the point version of DD

So when using "warp by vector", use D or pointD fields (D will be interpolated to the points by ParaView so it should...
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