Introduction to foamyHexMesh This version of OpenFOAM includes a new, fully parallelised, meshing tool called foamyHexMesh. It is designed to generate hex-dominant meshes from the same type of surface geometries as used by snappyHexMesh, i.e. triangulated surfaces and in-built analytical surfaces such as spheres, cylinders and planes. The basic principles of […]

Feature Snapping In this release, we have extended existing feature edge handling, reported previously in news and in v2.2.0. Explicit feature snapping uses one or more files containing a description of feature edges in the geometry. snappyHexMesh accepts basic edge mesh file formats, including OpenFOAM’s native .eMesh format, and .obj, […]