Input types

Input types

OpenFOAM input dictionaries are designed to be human-readable ASCII text files, consisting of collections of keyword-value entries bounded by curly braces {}, e.g.

dictionary_name
{
    labelType       1;
    scalarType      1.0;
    vectorType      (0 0 0);
    wordType        word;
    stringType      "string";
    ...
}

The main basic entry types include:

Type	Description	Example
boolean	state	on, off, true, false
label	integer	123
scalar	float	123.456
word	a single word	value
string	quoted text	"this is a string value"
list	a list of entries bounded by () braces	(0 1 2 3 4 5)
vector	a list of 3 values, nominally (x y z) components	(0 0 0)
sphericalTensor	a spherical tensor	(0)
symmTensor	a symmetric tensor defined by (xx xy xz yy yz zz)	(0 0 0 0 0 0)
tensor	a nine component tensor defined by (xx xy xz yx yy yz zx zy zz)	(0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0)

Expressions

See expressions

Function1 types

See Function1s