solids4foam
solids4foam: A toolbox for performing solid mechanics and fluid-solid interaction simulations in OpenFOAM - Published in JOSS (2025)
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Published in Journal of Open Source Software
Repository
The official repository for solids4foam
Basic Info
Statistics
- Stars: 84
- Watchers: 9
- Forks: 47
- Open Issues: 56
- Releases: 6
Metadata Files
README.md
<!-- solids4foam -->

What is solids4foam?
solids4foam is a toolbox for performing solid mechanics and fluid-solid interactions in OpenFOAM.
Where do I start?
Please visit the solids4foam website.
Disclaimer
This offering is not approved or endorsed by OpenCFD Limited, producer and distributor of the OpenFOAM software via www.openfoam.com, and owner of the OPENFOAM® and OpenCFD® trade marks.
Acknowledgements
OPENFOAM® is a registered trademark of OpenCFD Limited, producer and distributor of the OpenFOAM software via www.openfoam.com.
Owner
- Name: solids4foam
- Login: solids4foam
- Kind: organization
- Repositories: 4
- Profile: https://github.com/solids4foam
JOSS Publication
solids4foam: A toolbox for performing solid mechanics and fluid-solid interaction simulations in OpenFOAM
Authors
School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Tags
computational mechanics fluid-solid interaction OpenFOAM finite volume methodCitation (CITATION.cff)
cff-version: 1.2.0
message: "If you use solids4foam in your research, please cite the following publication:"
authors:
- family-names: "Cardiff"
given-names: "Philip"
affiliation: "University College Dublin"
orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4824-427X"
- family-names: "Batistić"
given-names: "Ivan"
affiliation:
- "University of Zagreb"
- "University College Dublin"
orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6104-0415"
- family-names: "Tuković"
given-names: "Željko"
affiliation: "University of Zagreb"
orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8719-0983"
title: "solids4foam: A toolbox for performing solid mechanics and fluid-solid interaction simulations in OpenFOAM"
version: "2.2"
doi: "10.21105/joss.07407"
date-released: "2025-04-02"
license: "GPL-3.0-or-later"
repository: "https://github.com/solids4foam/solids4foam"
keywords:
- solid mechanics
- fluid-solid interaction
- OpenFOAM
- finite volume method
preferred-citation:
type: article
authors:
- family-names: "Cardiff"
given-names: "P."
- family-names: "Batistić"
given-names: "I."
- family-names: "Tuković"
given-names: "Ž."
title: "solids4foam: A toolbox for performing solid mechanics and fluid-solid interaction simulations in OpenFOAM"
journal: "Journal of Open Source Software"
year: 2025
volume: 10
number: 108
pages: 7407
doi: "10.21105/joss.07407"
url: "https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.07407"
GitHub Events
Total
- Create event: 7
- Commit comment event: 3
- Release event: 1
- Issues event: 22
- Watch event: 26
- Issue comment event: 118
- Push event: 198
- Gollum event: 12
- Pull request event: 37
- Pull request review comment event: 15
- Pull request review event: 15
- Fork event: 14
Last Year
- Create event: 7
- Commit comment event: 3
- Release event: 1
- Issues event: 22
- Watch event: 26
- Issue comment event: 118
- Push event: 199
- Gollum event: 12
- Pull request event: 37
- Pull request review comment event: 15
- Pull request review event: 15
- Fork event: 14
Committers
Last synced: 7 months ago
Top Committers
| Name | Commits | |
|---|---|---|
| Philip Cardiff | p****f@g****m | 1,276 |
| Danial Khazaei | k****l@g****m | 63 |
| Ivan Batistić | i****2@g****m | 34 |
| Iago Lessa de Oliveira | i****a@g****m | 18 |
| Zeljko Tukovic | z****c@f****r | 10 |
| Denis Maier | 7****r | 5 |
| Gerasimos Chourdakis | g****s@i****e | 5 |
| Zeljko Tukovic | z****c@f****r | 4 |
| Amirhossein Taran | d****w@g****m | 4 |
| Jeff Heylmun | h****n@s****m | 3 |
| scottlevie97 | 7****7 | 3 |
| wyldckat | w****t@g****m | 3 |
| Saber Mohammadi | s****m@c****e | 2 |
| Ali Bozorgzadeh | 6****g | 1 |
| Cyrille Bonamy | c****y@l****r | 1 |
| Mark Olesen | M****n@g****t | 1 |
| Moretti Simona | m****a@u****t | 1 |
| Patrick Höhn | h****p | 1 |
| Philipp Milovic | m****h@g****m | 1 |
| Sindeev Sergey | s****v@y****u | 1 |
| Xiaohu Guo | g****u | 1 |
| maier | d****r@b****e | 1 |
| Karen FitzGerald | k****d@u****e | 1 |
| emadtandis | e****s@u****e | 1 |
Committer Domains (Top 20 + Academic)
Issues and Pull Requests
Last synced: 6 months ago
All Time
- Total issues: 48
- Total pull requests: 101
- Average time to close issues: 4 months
- Average time to close pull requests: 27 days
- Total issue authors: 22
- Total pull request authors: 11
- Average comments per issue: 2.65
- Average comments per pull request: 2.11
- Merged pull requests: 75
- Bot issues: 0
- Bot pull requests: 0
Past Year
- Issues: 19
- Pull requests: 43
- Average time to close issues: 26 days
- Average time to close pull requests: 9 days
- Issue authors: 11
- Pull request authors: 7
- Average comments per issue: 1.32
- Average comments per pull request: 1.67
- Merged pull requests: 30
- Bot issues: 0
- Bot pull requests: 0
Top Authors
Issue Authors
- philipcardiff (8)
- abzrg (6)
- denMaier (6)
- MakisH (4)
- andyvaldes10 (3)
- iBatistic (3)
- zonexo (3)
- Arumd86 (1)
- Jano689 (1)
- BlackLion9 (1)
- francescoornano (1)
- VamosZhi (1)
- filippo70 (1)
- Youngxl1998 (1)
- cloner0110 (1)
Pull Request Authors
- iBatistic (45)
- philipcardiff (23)
- denMaier (9)
- MakisH (9)
- abzrg (4)
- cloner0110 (3)
- Aaron-Mullen-Hales (2)
- MatheusMiguel12 (2)
- khoderAlshaar (2)
- hoehnp (1)
- Andry-M (1)
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