Note: This adapter is currently in a testing phase. Please report any issues here and give us feedback through the preCICE mailing list.
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 adapter is easily extensible and support for fluid-fluid multi-model coupling is planned.
Our wiki will help you start.
You may find OpenFOAM-only tutorials here, in order to test your installation, or cases involving other adapters in the precice/tutorials repository. Step-by-step instructions for them are provided in the preCICE wiki.
[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.
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