Articles

Articles provide definitions and insights into Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) analysis with a focus on Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD).

CFD Concept Design of a Fuel-Efficient Passenger Vehicle

To realize the maximum benefit of Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) simulation tools, such as Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), you have to use these analysis tools early in the concept design phase of a project. The concept design phase is the moment when the design is (pardon the pun) fluid - open to extensive geometry changes and free of the clutter of manufacturing details, such as fasteners. This is the time to design for simulation, i.e., keep your geometry simple and perform comparative analysis to explore how design parameters affect the design performance.

Caedium CFD ResultsCaedium CFD Results for Baseline GeometryShows velocity magnitude colormap on surfaces, vectors, and streamlines

GPU v0.2 Linear Solver Library for OpenFOAM

For the latest version of ofgpu for OpenFOAM visit "GPU v1.1 Linear Solver Library for OpenFOAM".

Jan. 17, 2012: Updated instructions for OpenFOAM 2.1.x

ofgpu v0.2 is the latest version of our free GPL library that provides GPU (sometimes referred to as GPGPU) linear solvers for OpenFOAM® v2.1.x. Sponsored by the Microsoft DPE team, the library targets NVIDIA CUDA devices on Windows, Linux, and (untested) Mac OS X. While this effort is still in the experimental stage, GPU acceleration holds the promise of providing significant speed up at relatively low cost and with low power consumption compared to other alternatives. If you want to try our ofgpu library with OpenFOAM then we recommend that you use either a dedicated (i.e., not displaying graphics) high-performance NVIDIA graphics card or a TESLA card.

ofgpuOpenFOAM on Windows using ofgpu

OpenFOAM 2.0.x on Windows 64-bit with MS MPI

For the latest version of our Windows patch for OpenFOAM visit "OpenFOAM 2.2.x on Windows".

We have updated our free Windows source code patch for the latest OpenFOAM® release (v2.0.x). As with the previous version this patch also supports 64-bit compilation using the MinGW-w64 cross-compiler and parallel computation using the native Windows MS MPI implementation provided by the free Microsoft HPC SDK and also available on Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008 for clusters.

GPU Linear Solver Library for OpenFOAM

For the latest version of our Windows patch for OpenFOAM visit "OpenFOAM 2.2.x on Windows".

ofgpu is our free GPL library that provides GPU (sometimes referred to as GPGPU) linear solvers for OpenFOAM®. Sponsored by the Microsoft DPE team, the library targets NVIDIA CUDA devices on Windows, Linux, and (untested) Mac OS X. While this effort is still in the experimental stage, GPU acceleration holds the promise of providing significant speed up at relatively low cost and with low power consumption compared to other alternatives. If you want to try our ofgpu library with OpenFOAM then we recommend that you use either a dedicated (i.e., not displaying graphics) high-performance NVIDIA graphics card or a TESLA card.

The Case For Caedium

A presentation that makes the case for Caedium: affordable Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software for all.

Convection and Heat Transfer

Heat transfer plays a primary role in the design of electronics cooling and Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems. Heat transfer also plays an important role in many other applications, such as gas turbines, heat exchangers, brakes, and even people.

OpenFOAM 1.7.x on Windows 64-bit with Native MPI

For the latest version of our Windows patch for OpenFOAM visit "OpenFOAM 2.2.x on Windows".

We have updated our Windows patch for the latest OpenFOAM® release (v1.7.x). As with the previous patch version this also supports 64-bit compilation using the MinGW-w64 cross-compiler and parallel computation using the native Windows MPI implementation provided by the free Microsoft HPC SDK and also available on Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008 for clusters.

OpenFOAM 1.6.x on Windows 64-bit with Native MPI

For the latest version of our Windows patch for OpenFOAM visit "OpenFOAM 2.2.x on Windows".

The latest version of our Windows patch for OpenFOAM® 1.6.x now supports 64-bit compilation using the MinGW-w64 cross-compiler and parallel computation using the native Windows MPI implementation provided by the free Microsoft HPC SDK and also available on Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008 for clusters. Be warned, as always, that to build OpenFOAM for Windows with a cross-compiler requires expert knowledge of Windows and Linux utilities and compilers.

How to Configure MSMPI for the MinGW-w64 Cross-Compiler

For the latest version of these instructions visit "How to Configure MS-MPI v8.1 for the MinGW-w64 Cross-Compiler".

Jan. 21, 2013: Updated instructions for HPC Pack 2012 MS-MPI Redistributable Package

Here you'll find the instructions on how to create libmsmpi.a for the MinGW-w64 cross-compiler to link against for MPI applications, given the free MS-MPI Redistributable Package. Once configured with the msmpi library an MPI application can run in parallel on a multi-core Windows machine or in parallel on Microsoft Windows HPC Server (cluster). Using the technique described here a modified version of OpenFOAM for Windows was configured with native MPI support.

OpenFOAM 1.6.x on Windows

For the latest version of our Windows patch for OpenFOAM visit "OpenFOAM 2.2.x on Windows".

We have updated our Windows patch for OpenFOAM to match the latest OpenFOAM release (v1.6.x). Be warned - to build OpenFOAM for Windows with a cross compiler requires expert knowledge of Linux utilities and compilers.

Syndicate content