CFD with OpenFOAM®
Overview
OpenFOAM® is a widely-used open-source code and a powerful framework for solving a variety of problems mainly in the field of CFD. The five-day workshop gives an introduction to OpenFOAM® applied on CFD phenomena and is intended for beginners as well as for people with CFD background knowledge. The user will learn about case setup, meshing tools like snappyHexMesh and cfMesh. Available OpenFOAM® utilities and additional libraries like swak4Foam, that can be used for pre- and postprocessing tasks, are further aspects of this course. Additionally, basic solvers and major aspects of code structure are highlighted. Lectures and hands-on sessions with typical CFD examples will guide through this course including first steps in own coding. This course provides scientific training in Computational Science, and in addition, the scientific exchange of the participants among themselves.
On-site course & COVID rules (subject to update)
Although this event is a training course, another important aspect is the scientific exchange between participants, which did not work as well as we hoped in our online courses.
The concept to enable this communication among our participants consists of
- common coffee and lunch breaks, and
- working together in groups of two during the hands-on parth (subject to willingness and COVID-19 rules at the time of this event).
For your security, we allow only completely vaccinated, or fully recovered, or participants tested negatively on COVID-19 on all days. In the course room and when not eating/drinking, FFP2 or medical masks are required. Of course, these rules also apply to the instructors.
Program
The preliminary course outline can be found here (PDF).
Prerequisites
To take full advantage of the course offering it would be advisable to have a standing knowledge of using Linux, as it is used for all exercises. Basics in programming will be required for some of the exercises as well as some insights into CFD theory (see e.g. the recording and material of the 2020 CFD course).
Teachers and Authors
Andreas Ruopp (HLRS),
Dipl.-Ing. Daniel Harlacher (ZIMT, Uni. Siegen),
Thorsten Zirwes (SCC, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie)
Elisabeth Beer (Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Regensburg, co-author only),
Language
The course language is German. The slides are in English.
Handouts
Each participant will get a paper copy of all slides.
Registration
Online registration form will appear here.
Please feel free to join the waiting list as well. Currently we can only provide a limited number of places. We expect to be able to accept the normal number of participants once the pandemic state-law and university regulations are clearer.
Fee
Students without Diploma/Master: 40 EUR
Students with Diploma/Master (PhD students) at German universities: 90 EUR
Members of German universities and public research institutes: 90 EUR
Members of universities and public research institutes within EU or PRACE member countries: 180 EUR.
Members of other universities and public research institutes: 360 EUR
Others: 960 EUR
Our course fee includes coffee breaks (in classroom courses only).
For those who booked and payed the 40€ of the 2020/OF1-SELF course and will register to this course, please reply to your invoice-email that we can send you a new invoice reduced by the 40 EUR fee from 2020.
Organization
Travel Information and Accommodation
see our How to find us page.
We strongly recommend to choose travel options and hotels with the possibility to cancel (even close to the event) because we might be forced to deliver the course as an online course.
PRACE PATC and bwHPC
HLRS is part of the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS), which is one of the six PRACE Advanced Training Centres (PATCs) that started
in Feb. 2012.
HLRS is also member of the Baden-Württemberg initiative bwHPC.
This course is provided within the framework of the bwHPC training program.
This course is not part of the PATC curriculum and is not sponsored by the PATC program.
This offering is not approved or endorsed by ESI Group or ESI-OpenCFD®, the producer of the OpenFOAM® software and owner of the OpenFOAM® trademark.
Contact
Michael Schlottke-Lakemper phone 0711 685 87223, m.schlottke-lakemper
hlrs.de
Khatuna Kakhiani phone 0711 685 65796, kakhianihlrs.de
Andreas Ruopp phone 0711 685 87259, ruopphlrs.de