On 07/10/2013 01:53 AM, osman buyukisik wrote:
> On 07/09/2013 12:29 PM, Ankit Mahato wrote:
>> I went through the codes I mentioned above:
>> The following solvers were good but were licensed under GPL
>> DUNS 2d/3d navier Stokes - GNU GPL license 2.0
>> Channelflow - GNU GPL2
>> OpenFlower - GPLv2
>> PETSc-FEM - GPLv2
>> Tochnog - GPL
>>
> Ankit,
> I think  Fenics project's application cbcpdesys might be the best choice as it
> is in python  and solvers are mainly called from python. Has a few turbulence
> models already coded. Might be a good idea to look how they did it (it is FE
> based). None of the codes you listed is python based.
> Another FE based solver  that may be scripted with python is Fluidity from
> http://amcg.ese.ic.ac.uk/index.php?title=Fluidity
> again just to investigate how they do it.
>
> You might want to think about using petsc solver suite (from Argonne National
> Labs) to be called from python as in fenics/dolfin.
> It has quite a few choices for solving nolinear systems. Its license seems very
> liberal (like bsd).
>
>   You'll need to solve not NS but Reynolds averaged NS. This ends up adding
> additional equations related to turbulence.  Just NS by itself will diverge as
> the Reynolds number goes above a certain value. All of this already done in
> cbcpdesys. It is GNU LGPL so should be ok to use with bsd. But you won't be
> copying verbatim anyways.
>
> just a few thoughts. I use fluent at work and many open cfd codes at home.
> Regards,
> Osman

Thanks for the links! fenics is always a good source for inspiration.

BTW. Ankit, what Reynolds numbers are typical for the flows you would like to
simulate?

r.