成果公開：FoDE論文がSoftwareXで公開されました

OpenFOAM, research

論文 “Foam Dictionary Editor: A GUI-based open-source tool for OpenFOAM case configuration” がSoftwareXに掲載され，公開されました。Open Accessとして公開されています。Web形式だけでなく，PDFファイルもダンロード可能です。

Shinji Nakagawa, Foam Dictionary Editor: A GUI-based open-source tool for OpenFOAM case configuration, SoftwareX, Volume 35, 2026, 102852, ISSN 2352-7110, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2026.102852 ( ScienceDirect)

Abstract: OpenFOAM is a widely used open-source CFD framework in which case configuration is distributed over many dictionary files in system/, constant/, and field-specific directories. While experienced users handle these files efficiently via scripts and command-line tools, the resulting workflow can be difficult to get an overview of and error-prone, especially for non-expert users and for cases involving many regions and fields. This article presents Foam Dictionary Editor (FoDE), an open-source PySide6-based GUI editor for OpenFOAM dictionary files. The tool parses dictionaries into a tree of Python objects and exposes them through a Qt model–view layer, providing a structured tree view, a schema-aware detail panel, and a spreadsheet-like boundary view that aggregates boundary conditions across fields and patches. These views are kept synchronized with a plain-text editor, and an embedded terminal and case-management functions (including case duplication and a case library) allow users to set up and run cases within a single application. Illustrative examples demonstrate that Foam Dictionary Editor improves the overview and editability of cases with many dictionaries, such as multi-region simulations, and reduces the need to switch between a file manager, a text editor, and a terminal. The tool has also been used in university courses to help users understand case structure and reduce configuration mistakes, though its design targets a broad range of OpenFOAM workflows beyond teaching use. The architecture and schema system are designed to be extensible so that additional OpenFOAM versions, solvers, and user-defined dictionaries can be supported incrementally.