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.
The documentation for AdditiveFOAM is hosted on GitHub Pages.
| Link | Description |
|---|---|
| solver | Development version of the solver |
| utilities | Utilities for post-processing and code wrappers |
| tutorials | Tutorial cases |
AdditiveFOAM is built on source code released by the OpenFOAM Foundation openfoam.org, which is available in public OpenFOAM repositories.
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.
If you use AdditiveFOAM in your work, please cite the Zenodo DOI 
@software{AdditiveFOAM_1.0.0,
author = {John Coleman and
Kellis Kincaid and
Gerald L. Knapp and
Benjamin Stump and
Alexander J. Plotkowski},
title = {AdditiveFOAM: Release 1.0},
month = jun,
year = 2023,
publisher = {Zenodo},
version = {1.0.0},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.8034098},
url = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8034098}
}
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.
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.
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!
