AdditiveFOAM
Mirror for AdditiveFOAM https://github.com/ORNL/AdditiveFOAM: heat and mass transfer software for simulation of additive manufacturing, based on OpenFOAM
Install / Use
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AdditiveFOAM
AdditiveFOAM is a free, open source heat and mass transfer software for simulations of Additive Manufacturing (AM) released by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. It is built upon OpenFOAM, a free, open source computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software package released by the OpenFOAM Foundation.
Repository Features
| Link | Description | |-----------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------| | solver | Development version of the solver | | utilities | Utilities for post-processing and code wrappers | | tutorials | Tutorial cases |
Documentation
The documentation for AdditiveFOAM is hosted on GitHub Pages.
Installation and Dependencies
AdditiveFOAM is built on source code released by the OpenFOAM Foundation openfoam.org, which is available in public OpenFOAM repositories.
The easiest way to install AdditiveFOAM is using spack:
spack install additivefoam
See the installation instructions in the documentation for other options for building AdditiveFOAM.
Citing
If you use AdditiveFOAM in your work, please cite the Zenodo DOI 
of the version you used as a software citation:
@software{AdditiveFOAM_1.0.0,
author = {John Coleman and
Kellis Kincaid and
Gerald L. Knapp and
Benjamin Stump and
Alexander J. Plotkowski},
title = {AdditiveFOAM: Release 1.0},
month = jun,
year = 2023,
publisher = {Zenodo},
version = {1.0.0},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.8034098},
url = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8034098}
}
License
AdditiveFOAM is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. See the file LICENSE in this directory or http://www.gnu.org/licenses/, for a description of the GNU General Public License terms under which you can copy the files.
Contact
For any questions, issues, or suggestions regarding AdditiveFOAM, you can reach out to the project maintainers through the GitHub repository's issue tracker or by contacting the development team directly.
Contributing
We encourage you to contribute to AdditiveFOAM! Please check the guidelines on how to do so.
We appreciate your interest in AdditiveFOAM and look forward to your contributions!
