AdditiveFOAM

AdditiveFOAM: A Continuum Multiphysics Code for Additive Manufacturing - Published in JOSS (2025)

https://github.com/ornl/additivefoam

Science Score: 85.0%

This score indicates how likely this project is to be science-related based on various indicators:

  • CITATION.cff file
    Found CITATION.cff file
  • codemeta.json file
    Found codemeta.json file
  • .zenodo.json file
    Found .zenodo.json file
  • DOI references
    Found 6 DOI reference(s) in README
  • Academic publication links
    Links to: joss.theoj.org, zenodo.org
  • Committers with academic emails
    3 of 6 committers (50.0%) from academic institutions
  • Institutional organization owner
    Organization ornl has institutional domain (software.ornl.gov)
  • JOSS paper metadata
  • Scientific vocabulary similarity
    Low similarity (16.2%) to scientific vocabulary

Keywords

additive-manufactering fluid-flow heat-transport openfoam simulation-modeling
Last synced: 6 months ago · JSON representation ·

Repository

A continuum physics code for additive manufacturing built on OpenFOAM

Basic Info
Statistics
  • Stars: 41
  • Watchers: 8
  • Forks: 10
  • Open Issues: 11
  • Releases: 2
Topics
additive-manufactering fluid-flow heat-transport openfoam simulation-modeling
Created almost 3 years ago · Last pushed 8 months ago
Metadata Files
Readme Changelog Contributing License Citation

README.md

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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

The documentation for AdditiveFOAM is hosted on GitHub Pages.

Repository Features

| Link | Description | |-----------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------| | solver | Development version of the solver | | utilities | Utilities for post-processing and code wrappers | | tutorials | Tutorial cases |

Installation and Dependencies

OpenFOAM-10

AdditiveFOAM is built on source code released by the OpenFOAM Foundation openfoam.org, which is available in public OpenFOAM repositories.

Spack-Dev

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

DOI DOI

If you use AdditiveFOAM in your work, please cite the JOSS article and consider citing the Zenodo DOI for the version used.

License

GPL

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!

Contributors

Owner

  • Name: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  • Login: ORNL
  • Kind: organization
  • Email: software@ornl.gov
  • Location: Oak Ridge TN

Software repositories from Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Citation (CITATION.bib)

@article{Coleman2025,
  doi = {10.21105/joss.07770},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.07770},
  year = {2025},
  publisher = {The Open Journal},
  volume = {10},
  number = {109},
  pages = {7770},
  author = {John Coleman and Kellis Kincaid and Gerry L. Knapp and Benjamin Stump and Samuel Temple Reeve and Matt Rolchigo and Alex Plotkowski},
  title = {AdditiveFOAM: A Continuum Multiphysics Code for Additive Manufacturing},
  journal = {Journal of Open Source Software}
}

GitHub Events

Total
  • Create event: 20
  • Release event: 1
  • Issues event: 20
  • Watch event: 20
  • Delete event: 8
  • Issue comment event: 34
  • Push event: 39
  • Pull request review comment event: 22
  • Pull request review event: 28
  • Pull request event: 30
  • Fork event: 1
Last Year
  • Create event: 20
  • Release event: 1
  • Issues event: 20
  • Watch event: 20
  • Delete event: 8
  • Issue comment event: 34
  • Push event: 39
  • Pull request review comment event: 22
  • Pull request review event: 28
  • Pull request event: 30
  • Fork event: 1

Committers

Last synced: 7 months ago

All Time
  • Total Commits: 50
  • Total Committers: 6
  • Avg Commits per committer: 8.333
  • Development Distribution Score (DDS): 0.56
Past Year
  • Commits: 17
  • Committers: 3
  • Avg Commits per committer: 5.667
  • Development Distribution Score (DDS): 0.294
Top Committers
Name Email Commits
John Coleman 1****s 22
Sam Reeve 6****e 22
Kellis Kincaid (khk) k****c@o****v 3
William F Godoy g****f@o****v 1
Gerry Knapp g****0@g****m 1
Coleman J S 8****2@n****v 1
Committer Domains (Top 20 + Academic)

Issues and Pull Requests

Last synced: 6 months ago

All Time
  • Total issues: 21
  • Total pull requests: 64
  • Average time to close issues: 25 days
  • Average time to close pull requests: 10 days
  • Total issue authors: 9
  • Total pull request authors: 4
  • Average comments per issue: 1.33
  • Average comments per pull request: 0.31
  • Merged pull requests: 45
  • Bot issues: 0
  • Bot pull requests: 0
Past Year
  • Issues: 12
  • Pull requests: 31
  • Average time to close issues: 16 days
  • Average time to close pull requests: 2 days
  • Issue authors: 8
  • Pull request authors: 4
  • Average comments per issue: 1.92
  • Average comments per pull request: 0.19
  • Merged pull requests: 23
  • Bot issues: 0
  • Bot pull requests: 0
Top Authors
Issue Authors
  • colemanjs (6)
  • LPH0696 (5)
  • streeve (3)
  • mikejwg (2)
  • gknapp1 (1)
  • srmnitc (1)
  • kincaidkc (1)
  • puente-tamu (1)
  • tkphd (1)
Pull Request Authors
  • colemanjs (33)
  • streeve (15)
  • kincaidkc (11)
  • gknapp1 (5)
Top Labels
Issue Labels
enhancement (1) question (1)
Pull Request Labels

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