OpenFOAM-preCICE adapter

As of April 2021, precice/openfoam-adapter is actively developed. Current maintainers: @MakisH and @DavidSCN. Have a look at open good first issues and where we need help.

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History

This adapter was developed as part of Gerasimos Chourdakis' master's thesis [1]. It is based on previous work by Lucia Cheung (master's thesis [2], in cooperation with SimScale).

The fluid-structure interaction module was developed in close collaboration between Gerasimos Chourdakis and Derek Risseeuw (TU Delft), in the context of the master's thesis of the latter [3]. We would also like to thank David Schneider (Univ. Siegen / TUM) and Maximilian Müller (TU Braunschweig) for sharing the code and experience of their similar previous work.

The fluid-fluid coupling module was added by Gerasimos Chourdakis, in the context of his dissertation. #67

The adapter is easily extensible.

References

[1] Gerasimos Chourdakis. A general OpenFOAM adapter for the coupling library preCICE. Master's thesis, Department of Informatics, Technical University of Munich, 2017.

[2] Lucia Cheung Yau. Conjugate heat transfer with the multiphysics coupling library preCICE. Master’s thesis, Department of Informatics, Technical University of Munich, 2016.

[3] Derek Risseeuw. Fluid Structure Interaction Modelling of Flapping Wings. Master's thesis, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Delft University of Technology, 2019.

Disclaimer

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