wyldckat@github

It's been some time since I last blogged something about OpenFOAM. Most of my free time that I allocate to OpenFOAM-related topics has been more oriented to helping out on the forum and to write the most that I can on the unofficial OpenFOAM wiki: http://openfoamwiki.net/ - and Twitter is a bit quicker to micro-blog about stuff, so check out my Twitter feed as well: https://twitter.com/wyldckat

Anyway, today I received a question through a private message asking about ideas on how to...

The other day Tobi asked for my help on building http://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/ope...opensmoke.html
After looking at the code and doing some trial and error, basing myself also on Tobi's already collected information, I managed to get it built/working with OpenFOAM 1.7.x, 2.0.x and 2.1.x.

And since the original page only provided a rarball (on Linux?) of the source code, I decided to use my github account to harbor the original code along...

Note: This blog post will be edited whenever more details come to life.

A bit of an introduction:
I started my experience at github by forking the ThirdParty-2.0.x repository back in 12th of August of 2011. The objective was to create a branch named get-em which would possess modifications for a simple package manager for OpenFOAM's ThirdParty folder, to then be posted as a proposition for a feature request at OpenFOAM's bug tracker. This was not requested by any of the OpenFOAM...