CFD simulations using OpenFOAM (PTC course)

Europe/Prague
207 (VŠB - Technical University Ostrava, IT4Innovations building)

207

VŠB - Technical University Ostrava, IT4Innovations building

Studentská 6231/1B 708 33 Ostrava–Poruba Czech Republic
Description

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.

 

  • Thursday, 14 December
    • 09:00 09:30
      Registration 207

      207

      VŠB - Technical University Ostrava, IT4Innovations building

      Studentská 6231/1B 708 33 Ostrava–Poruba Czech Republic
    • 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 207

      207

      VŠB - Technical University Ostrava, IT4Innovations building

      Studentská 6231/1B 708 33 Ostrava–Poruba Czech Republic
    • 12:00 13:00
      Lunch 1h
    • 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 207

      207

      VŠB - Technical University Ostrava, IT4Innovations building

      Studentská 6231/1B 708 33 Ostrava–Poruba Czech Republic
    • 15:30 16:00
      Coffee break 30m 207

      207

      VŠB - Technical University Ostrava, IT4Innovations building

      Studentská 6231/1B 708 33 Ostrava–Poruba Czech Republic
    • 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 207

      207

      VŠB - Technical University Ostrava, IT4Innovations building

      Studentská 6231/1B 708 33 Ostrava–Poruba Czech Republic
      • 16:00
        Coffee break 20m
  • 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 207

      207

      VŠB - Technical University Ostrava, IT4Innovations building

      Studentská 6231/1B 708 33 Ostrava–Poruba Czech Republic
    • 10:30 11:00
      Coffee break 30m 207

      207

      VŠB - Technical University Ostrava, IT4Innovations building

      Studentská 6231/1B 708 33 Ostrava–Poruba Czech Republic
    • 11:00 12:30
      Parallel computing: run in parallel on workstation/laptop/supercomputer; programming boundary conditions 207

      207

      VŠB - Technical University Ostrava, IT4Innovations building

      Studentská 6231/1B 708 33 Ostrava–Poruba Czech Republic
    • 12:30 13:30
      Lunch 1h
    • 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 207

      207

      VŠB - Technical University Ostrava, IT4Innovations building

      Studentská 6231/1B 708 33 Ostrava–Poruba Czech Republic