[nepomnyi]

Hello dear CFDonline community.


I'm using OpenFOAM.org (OpenFOAM foundation).



OpenFOAM has a lot of tutorials. The tutorials are presented in the form of case files gathered in folders. In those folders, there are no README.txt files that can describe what the given case is about. Apart from that, the user guide doesn't have descriptions of the tutorials as well.


As I understand, we are supposed to run a tutorial if we want to know what it's about. The guide says that the case folders have descriptive names which are supposed to give the user the feeling of what the case is about.


That is not very convenient to my taste.


I tried to find descriptions of the tutorials but failed (the guide exemplifies only 3 of the tutorials).



I'm wondering whether I'm right thinking that the anticipated way is to run a tutorial to find out what it's about or there is a website with the description of every single tutorial.



Thank you in advance.
Ivan

[nepomnyi]

I have just discovered this website. It lists all the OpenFOAM standard tutorials and gives brief descriptions of them. I think that's what I was looking for.

Still, the website hasn't been updated since 2018.
Ivan

[Gallienus]

Originally Posted by nepomnyi

As I understand, we are supposed to run a tutorial if we want to know what it's about. ..

That is not very convenient to my taste.

I tried to find descriptions of the tutorials but failed .
Ivan

I also am looking for info of the OpenFOAM.org (Foundation) Tutorials but am not finding anything. Additionally, the New & Improved OpenFOAM has the following description (from 11 July 2023):

"OpenFOAM included almost 100 solvers at one time. ...
OpenFOAM version 11, however, introduces modular solvers as a major improvement to the original application solvers. The application solvers are replaced by a single foamRun solver...
Modular solvers are simpler to use and maintain than application solvers."

This seems to be good news but it seems that the hundreds of tutorials were also based on the old multitude of solvers. I like the new approach but there should a description of the tutorials and perhaps some documentation on what each one does. The referenced Xsim website is from 2018 and is out of date.

Another thread: one which I copied in the past says:
" To get started, open a terminal window and copy the tutorial collection into your run directory."
Well I already have the tutorials in my install directory which is: opt/openfoam-dev. Why I do I need another library of them clogging up my run directory? I rather copy only those of interest to me.