https://github.com/ornl/additivefoam
A continuum physics code for additive manufacturing built on OpenFOAM
https://github.com/ornl/additivefoam
additive-manufactering fluid-flow heat-transport openfoam simulation-modeling
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A continuum physics code for additive manufacturing built on OpenFOAM
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/ornl/additivefoam
- Owner: ORNL
- License: other
- Created: 2023-03-28T14:59:54.000Z (about 3 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2025-07-10T12:59:56.000Z (11 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-07-10T20:07:23.169Z (11 months ago)
- Topics: additive-manufactering, fluid-flow, heat-transport, openfoam, simulation-modeling
- Language: C++
- Homepage: https://ornl.github.io/AdditiveFOAM/
- Size: 1.93 MB
- Stars: 35
- Watchers: 8
- Forks: 10
- Open Issues: 9
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Changelog: CHANGELOG.md
- Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
- License: LICENSE
- Citation: CITATION.bib
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README
---
`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.
## Documentation
[![Documentation Status][docs-badge]][docs-url]
The documentation for `AdditiveFOAM` is hosted on [GitHub Pages](https://ornl.github.io/AdditiveFOAM/).
### Repository Features
| Link | Description |
|-----------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------|
| [solver](applications/solvers/additiveFoam) | Development version of the solver |
| [utilities](applications/utilities) | Utilities for post-processing and code wrappers |
| [tutorials](tutorials) | Tutorial cases |
## Installation and Dependencies
[](https://github.com/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-10)
AdditiveFOAM is built on source code released by the OpenFOAM Foundation [openfoam.org](https://openfoam.org/), which is available in public [OpenFOAM repositories](https://github.com/OpenFOAM).
[](https://github.com/spack/spack)
The easiest way to install AdditiveFOAM is using [spack](https://spack.readthedocs.io/en/latest/):
```
spack install additivefoam
```
See the [installation instructions](https://ornl.github.io/AdditiveFOAM/docs/installation/#installation) in the [documentation](https://ornl.github.io/AdditiveFOAM/) for other options for building `AdditiveFOAM`.
## Citing
[](https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.07770)
[](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8034097)
If you use AdditiveFOAM in your work, please cite the JOSS article and
consider citing the Zenodo DOI for the version used.
## License
[](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html)
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](CONTRIBUTING.md) on how to do so.
We appreciate your interest in AdditiveFOAM and look forward to your contributions!
#### Contributors
- [John Coleman](https://www.ornl.gov/staff-profile/john-s-coleman)
- [Kellis Kincaid](https://www.ornl.gov/staff-profile/kellis-c-kincaid)
- [Gerry L. Knapp](https://www.ornl.gov/staff-profile/gerald-l-knapp)
- [Benjamin Stump](https://www.ornl.gov/staff-profile/benjamin-c-stump)
- [Alex Plotkowski](https://www.ornl.gov/staff-profile/alex-j-plotkowski)
- [Sam T. Reeve](https://www.ornl.gov/staff-profile/samuel-t-reeve)
- [Matt Rolchigo](https://www.ornl.gov/staff-profile/matt-rolchigo)
[docs-badge]: https://img.shields.io/badge/docs-latest-brightgreen.svg
[docs-url]: https://ornl.github.io/AdditiveFOAM/