Free OpenFoam Seminar: Sustainable Code Development and Cases Management with OpenFOAM Foundation Release and Demo on "Cases Management "

15.00

Welcome

15.05

"Sustainable Code Development and Cases Management with OpenFOAM Foundation Release” by Dr. Fabian Schlegel (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)

15.35

Demo on “Cases Management” by Dr. Ronald Lehnigk (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)

The software released by the OpenFOAM Foundation is developed with a strong focus on improving usability and maintainability. Functionality is kept as general as possible and as a result, the syntax for creating simulation setups evolves over time and it is not guaranteed that setups remain functional over a longer period of time without any adjustments. If users desire to keep their setups compatible, e.g., to repeatedly check validity for a certain application, they have to plan for maintenance work. The associated effort can be reduced if the setups are streamlined and placed under version control. In this demo we present a selection of tools that we found to be useful for developing and maintaining case setups. An approach for batch processing a larger set of simulation cases is demonstrated that can be used to conduct single timestep tests or full simulation runs in a scalable manner. The demo will highlight the benefits of using on a containerized installation of the OpenFOAM Foundation software. Furthermore, a solution for rendering simulations setups from templates is presented that allows to conduct efficient parameter studies.

16.45

Survey on interests in research with OpenFOAM