openFoam parallel computation

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openFoam parallel computation

Leon Robers
Hi Johan

Is it possible to activate parallel computation of OpenFOAM for large CFD problems in the specifications of the fea-tool "openfoam" function using windows?
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Parallel simulations are certainly on the roadmap for the future, it is however often non-trivial to implement as it typically can not easily be done automatically by just setting a solver flag, but often involves (significant) pre-processing (domain decomposition as in splitting the grid in to "suitable" parallel blocks), (parallel) solver control and monitoring, as well as post-processing (collecting and compiling the parallel data).

You can try to use the openfoam( fea, 'mode', 'export', ... ) functionality to export your serial OpenFOAM case files, and manually write some scripts to modify, paralleize and run simulations in parallel.


Leon Robers wrote
Is it possible to activate parallel computation of OpenFOAM for large CFD problems in the specifications of the fea-tool "openfoam" function using windows?