Under the Hood

If you look inside your project directory, you will find a foam directory with three subdirectories blockMesh, snappyHexMesh, and icoFoam. We chose to break the work up into three subdirectories for convenience, so that you can, for example, the mesh from snappyHexMesh doesn’t overwrite the output of blockMesh. We pasted a tree view below with all of the files generated by modelbuilder. Although some of the files are simple and some are the same from one subdirectory to the next, more than a dozen nontrivial OpenFOAM input files are generated and organized by modelbuilder that would otherwise have to be authored by the user.

wingsection/foam/
├── blockMesh
│   ├── Allclean
│   ├── Allrun
│   ├── blockMesh.foam
│   ├── constant
│   │   ├── include
│   │       └── blockMeshConfig
│   └── system
│       ├── blockMeshDict
│       └── controlDict
├── icoFoam
│   ├── 0.orig
│   │   ├── include
│   │   │   └── initialConditions
│   │   ├── p
│   │   └── U
│   ├── Allclean
│   ├── Allrun
│   ├── constant
│   │   ├── include
│   │       └── transportPropertiesConfig
│   ├── ico.foam
│   └── system
│       ├── controlDict
│       ├── fvSchemes
│       └── fvSolution
└── snappyHexMesh
    ├── Allclean
    ├── Allrun
    ├── constant
    │   ├── include
    │       ├── meshQualityDictConfig
    │       └── snappyHexMeshConfig
    ├── snappy.foam
    └── system
        ├── blockMeshDict
        ├── controlDict
        ├── fvSchemes
        ├── fvSolution
        ├── meshQualityDict
        ├── snappyHexMeshDict
        └── surfaceFeatureExtractDict