[mikethe1wheelnut]

Hi!


OpenFoam has a million lines of code. Apparently. That's a lot. Take a while to read. A standard technique for understanding what a code is doing is to step through it. [For context, an alternative method of learning how to use a tool like this is to try changing variables, etc, seeing what the result is. To an extent, this is shooting in the dark.] To phrase that yet another way, it would be very useful to have an "interface" with the code such that it shows you, systematically, what it is doing to setup the broblem, then to solve it. You need to define, say, the differential equations, then the boundary conditions, then the initial conditions, then solve. An "interface" (do I mean gui? maybe? -I'm anticipating that people might interpret it that way..) for doing this would be very useful and helpful. Something that allows you to both literally move through it line-by-line (which might take a very long time), or from file-to-file, or just skipping over loops, etc. This would/could be the link between setting up the problem, for example, with pen-and-paper, (or as code you write yourself) writing down all the equations and boundary conditions and initial conditions then calling a solver you've written (or found?), and using everything the way the tutorials are setup, where you provide a bunch of files, then put in a command, the program runs, and you get an output. (the shooting in the dark method). So, does such an interface exist? It seems to me that this would go a long way toward speeding peoples understanding of how the source code all works together. Thanks for your time for reading this! -I should specify that I'm using ubuntu..