Getting started

To get OOFEM installed on yout system, please follow Installation instructions first.

OOFEM is console application, it should be executed from command line with arguments specifying the path to input file. When no arguments are privided, the help is printed on output.

$ ./oofem

Options:

    -v  prints oofem version
    -f  (string) input file name
    -r  (int) restarts analysis from given step
    -ar (int) restarts adaptive analysis from given step
    -l  (int) sets treshold for log messages (Errors=0, Warnings=1,
        Relevant=2, Info=3, Debug=4)
    -rn turns on renumbering
    -qo (string) redirects the standard output stream to given file
    -qe (string) redirects the standard error stream to given file
    -c  creates context file for each solution step

Copyright (C) 1994-2017 Borek Patzak
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

The problem to be solved is fully described in input file. The structure of input is explained in Understanding input file sectiona and fully documented in OOFEM Input manual.

To run oofem with specific input, use -f option followed by a system path to input file. For illustration, we demonstrate the execution using beam2d_1.in test which is a part of OOFEM test suite and is located in tests/sm directory.

$ ./oofem -f /home/user/oofem.git/tests/sm/beam2d_1.in
    ____________________________________________________
                OOFEM - Finite Element Solver
            Copyright (C) 1994-2017 Borek Patzak
    ____________________________________________________
    Computing initial guess

    StaticStructural :: solveYourselfAt - Solving step 1, metastep 1, (neq = 15)

    ...

    ANALYSIS FINISHED

    Real time consumed: 000h:00m:00s
    User time consumed: 000h:00m:00s
    Total 0 error(s) and 0 warning(s) reported

By default, the text output file with results is created (as specified in input file). In this case, the beam2d_1.out file is created in the current working directory.