CFD simulations using OpenFOAM (PTC course)

14 Dec 2017, 09:00 → 15 Dec 2017, 16:00 Europe/Prague

207 (VŠB - Technical University Ostrava, IT4Innovations building)

Annotation

The course provides an introduction to the OpenFOAM open source package for CFD simulations on HPC infrastructure. The participants will be guided through basic geometry and mesh generation, physical modelling, visualization and parallel computation.

Purpose of the course (benefits for the attendees)

The course provides a tour around all fundamental parts of OpenFOAM. It is useful for new users and beginners in CFD simulations by using open source code.

Level

beginner

Language

English

About the tutor

Tomáš Brzobohatý is a researcher at the Czech IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center. He is part of a team which provides services for industrial partners in the field of CFD and CSM analysis.

Comments

This training is a PRACE Training Centre (PTC) course, co-funded by the Partnership of Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE). The main web page of the course is located on the PRACE Events Portal.

 

Course flyer

Links

• 0 Original web page of the course
• 1 Registration on the PRACE Events Portal
• 2 Course web page on the PRACE Events Portal
• 3 OpenFOAM web page
• 4 Anselm and Salomon documentation
• 5 Accommodation and transport recommendations (in English)
• 6 Transportation and accommodation - info for distant participants (in Czech)

Thursday, 14 December

09:00 → 09:30 Registration

09:30 → 12:00 Course introductio: course outline and introduction to OpenFOAM; Linux background, preparation for hands-on sessions; my first OpenFOAM case, hands-on session; OpenFOAM case structure

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch

13:00 → 15:30 Geometry and meshing: meshing strategies in OpenFOAM; blockMesh, snappyHexMesh, hands-on session; mesh conversion from external packages (ANSYS Fluent example), hands-on session

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 → 17:00 Mesh manipulations: mesh manipulation, hands-on session; mesh partitioning for parallel computing, hands-on session; parallel meshing, parallel redistributing, hands-on session

16:00 Coffee break

Friday, 15 December

09:00 → 10:30 Physical modelling and numerical simulations: initial and boundary condition; incompressible simulations - SIMPLE/PISO/PIMPLE solvers, hands-on session; transport and turbulent models; solution monitoring and control; linear solvers setting

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:30 Parallel computing: run in parallel on workstation/laptop/supercomputer; programming boundary conditions

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 15:30 Post-processing: data Vizualization, ParaView, EnSight; OpenFOAM format conversions; plotting graphs of force coefficients, etc.; utilities for post-processing; hands-on session