Cross section river profiles

[oliveroxtoby]

Hi Oliver,
thanks about the courant-number info.
BTW: whats the drag-coefficient of the millennium falcon?
How did you do the simulation?
https://twitter.com/ex_mente/status/936562984914210816
MrSpock.JPG

Macro files for the simulation are now available at https://opensimsa.github.io/training.html if you would like to try it!

[thschrader]

Hi Oliver,
thanks about the courant-number info.
BTW: whats the drag-coefficient of the millennium falcon?
How did you do the simulation?
https://twitter.com/ex_mente/status/936562984914210816
MrSpock.JPG

Macro files for the simulation are now available at https://opensimsa.github.io/training.html if you would like to try it!

https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic. ... 16#p209616

[Kunda1]

Guys, can we create another thread for Millenium Falcon stuff, this is too cool of a thread to hijack and a shame to bury such a neat segway thread (Millennium Falcon).

Also, @thschrader wouldn't it be awesome if there was a university or some 3rd party that would let us upload FEM related projects to process and render instead of your poor little laptop? I wonder how we could make that happen ?

[microelly2]

Also, @thschrader wouldn't it be awesome if there was a university or some 3rd party that would let us upload FEM related projects to process and render instead of your poor little laptop? I wonder how we could make that happen ?

Is it possible to run such FEM simulations parallel on multiple computers?

[thschrader]

Also, @thschrader wouldn't it be awesome if there was a university or some 3rd party that would let us upload FEM related projects to process and render instead of your poor little laptop? I wonder how we could make that happen ?

Good idea. My proposal:
http://defsec.csir.co.za/aeronautical-s ... teractions
or
http://www.eskom.co.za/Pages/Landing.aspx
(they use FC )

@microelly:
You can adress multiple cpu in FEM in Preferences/FEM/Calculix and
in cfd-wb in the data field when clicking on openfoam-solver in tree.
I have an Acer laptop with Intel celeron N2940 quadcore processor. I only use the
parallel computing option in cfd (2 cores adressed, when adressing 4 cores
my machine is completely blocked)

[thschrader]

Also, @thschrader wouldn't it be awesome if there was a university or some 3rd party that would let us upload FEM related projects to process and render instead of your poor little laptop? I wonder how we could make that happen ?

Good idea. My proposal:
http://defsec.csir.co.za/aeronautical-s ... teractions
or
http://www.eskom.co.za/Pages/Landing.aspx
(they use FC )

@microelly:
You can adress multiple cpu in FEM in Preferences/FEM/Calculix and
in cfd-wb in the data field when clicking on openfoam-solver in tree.
I have an Acer laptop with Intel celeron N2940 quadcore processor. I only use the
parallel computing option in cfd (2 cores adressed, when adressing 4 cores
my machine is completely blocked)

EDIT:
@Kunda1/microelly:
Please have a look at this video (the comments!), a diskussion about hardware for cfd.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwOZs5S78z4
I forgot the dualsphysics-solver. With this solver you can adress multiple GPU.
http://dual.sphysics.org/index.php/gpu/

[AltoRoos]

Greetings All,

Firstly, Thanks for every post thus far. This thread is very interesting and you are getting some exciting stuff done.

Secondly, I am a newbie to This Forum, FreeCAD, Openfoam, CFD and Paraview so please forgive my "Beginner" Type of Questions.

Animation:
After finishing the simulation you can import the results in paraview and start the animation.
The animation can be saved as vtk-files. I imported the first 20 vtk-files in FC and used a macro
from the user gift, to make the mesh moving.
https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=26107
The model tree looks a little bit weird, because I played with the geometry

I am having trouble saving the correct vtk-files to "animate" the mesh using the macro from user "gift". The mesh Paraview saves is the Full Mesh set and not just the water.

Please see the following link to case files, a few VTK sample files along with a short video of the results that I would like to see in FreeCAD but with a Solid water volume like the gifs you posted:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/9duqmmv8dx6o ... c-SKa?dl=0

I save the VTK files from ParaView with the following steps:
File -> Save Data -> "Change File Type to VTK Multibox .vtm file" -> "Activate the Files series to write the timesteps as file series" -> Ok.

If someone would be so kind as to explain to me what I am doing wrong it would be appreciated?

[thschrader]

Hello AltoRoos,
welcome to the Freecad-forum.
You must use the clip-filter in paraview with the options shown in the picture.
Then save file as vtk multiblock, enable "write all timesteps as file-series".
In FC you can import the vtu-files with the FEM-results filter. The meshes are
located in the result container. Gift has written to different macros. The first one is for
meshes NOT located in the result container. Use the second one. Workflow:
Import meshes, create a group, put all meshes in, hide all meshes.
Click on group in model tree, run macro. I personally prefer to use "save animation" in paraview
(use more than 30 frames per second), that gives a better "splash". BTW: export the cube
as stl and load it in paraview (you must scale the stl to 0.001) and adjust the opacity.
regards Thomas

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[AltoRoos]

Hello AltoRoos,
welcome to the Freecad-forum.
You must use the clip-filter in paraview with the options shown in the picture.
Then save file as vtk multiblock, enable "write all timesteps as file-series".
In FC you can import the vtu-files with the FEM-results filter. The meshes are
located in the result container. Gift has written to different macros. The first one is for
meshes NOT located in the result container. Use the second one. Workflow:
Import meshes, create a group, put all meshes in, hide all meshes.
Click on group in model tree, run macro. I personally prefer to use "save animation" in paraview
(use more than 30 frames per second), that gives a better "splash". BTW: export the cube
as stl and load it in paraview (you must scale the stl to 0.001) and adjust the opacity.
regards Thomas
clipfilter.JPG
fallingDrop.gif

@thschrader Thanks for your detailed response and extra comments. Much appreciate.
It's slight but effective inputs like this that help newbies gain traction. I haven't tested it but I'm sure it will work.
I will post a decent result of what we are doing once I have analysed a better example for interest.

Kind Regards,

[kwahoo]

Also, @thschrader wouldn't it be awesome if there was a university or some 3rd party that would let us upload FEM related projects to process and render instead of your poor little laptop? I wonder how we could make that happen ?

Is it possible to run such FEM simulations parallel on multiple computers?

I'm here with 8C/16T Ryzen + 16GB RAM + NVMe SSD, I can render some bigger stuff. Fell free to ask if you need some help;)

And if we could find an enough brave programmer to port one of OpenFOAM's cuda solvers to HIP, then I could use additional 6TFLOPS of GPU's computing power. But that is not easy task, I lost completely trying convert cusp-cuda for Calculix to HIP...