Install OpenFOAM 2.0.x on openSUSE 12.1

The instruction on OpenFOAM installation from albertopassalacqua.com is valuable to read

Install OpenFOAM 2.0.x on openSUSE 12.1

Code_Saturne 2.1.0 has been released

On 31 Oct, 2011, Code_Saturne 2.1.0 (intermediate version) has been released and is available for downloading. The details of the new features are described on the corresponding news page.

The selective major features include:

• Packaging: Code_Saturne is now provided as a single package, grouping all existing libraries (BFT, FVM, MEI, libsyrcs). It also includes preliminary source code for SALOME plugin (CFDSTUDY module and Code_Aster coupling).
• Code coupling: Code_Saturne 2.1 can be coupled with SYRTHES 4.0.0-10 (at least). SYRTHES 4.0 is a complete rewrite of SYRTHES 3.4 with many new features and should shortly be released. Code_Saturne 2.1 also contains preliminary code for Code_Aster coupling (more to come on this topic in next versions).
• User interface: both the script user interface and the graphical user interface have been simplified and completed to enhance user experience. Just give a try to the new runcase script (and its Python overloading) and to the new features of the graphical interface (more to come also on this topic in next versions).
• New mesh readers: Code_Saturne pre- and post- processing has been updated to support CGNS 3.1 and MED 3.0 format. MED 3.0 is compatible with SALOME 6.3.
• Documentation: the user manual has been slightly improve and a Doxygen documentation of the sources is now available. An installation manual is now provided too.
• Configuration: a configuration file can be completed, either globally or by user, to setup some runtime options like the scratch directory, an optional mesh database or SYRTHES 4.0 version to be used.
• Automatic V&V: a tool for automatic run of Code_Saturne has been developped, enabling the user to automatically run simulations, plot graphs and receive a PDF report by e-mail. It can be very useful for automatic Verification & Validation, though it is still in the very early stage of development.

ParaView 3.12.0 RC-3 available for download

ParaView 3.12.0 Release Candidate 3 binaries are available for download on the official page http://paraview.org/paraview/resources/software.html. It is a bug-fix release and the details can be found at http://www.paraview.org/Bug/changelog_page.php?version_id=85.

Release of SALOME version 5.1.6 and ParaView 3.12.0 RC-2

SALOME version 5.1.6 is a public maintenance release for series 5.x of SALOME platform. The version provides several major and minor bug fixes against SALOME version 5.1.5 released in December 2010.

SALOME 5.1.6 can be downloaded from the official page http://www.salome-platform.org/downloads/salome-v5.1.6.

On the other hand ParaView 3.12.0 Release Candidate 2 binaries are already available for download on the official page http://paraview.org/paraview/resources/software.html.

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I am looking for a job

News - I greatly appreciate your comments below and surprisingly plenty of information and valuable advices came to me during the last one year. Thanks to all your concern, I finally accepted a thermal expert position in ABB USA (www.abb.com) and am sitting in North Carolina.

I particularly thank the three companies in England, France and America that I personally consulted for and their encouraging recommendations. I cherish the experiences I have obtained from the part-time working with them.

Within my PhD study, I have published eight research papers. Four of them are in leading journals and their links are as follows:

• Numerical prediction of local hot-spot phenomena in transformer windings. Applied Thermal Engineering. 2012 April; 36: 96-105. DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2011.11.054
• Computational fluid dynamics calibration for network modelling of transformer cooling oil flows - part I heat transfer in oil ducts. IET Research Journals - Electrical Power Applications (formerly IEE Proceedings). 2012 January; 6(1): 19-27. DOI: 10.1049/iet-epa.2011.0004
• Computational fluid dynamics calibration for network modelling of transformer cooling flows - Part II: pressure loss at junction nodes. IET Research Journals - Electrical Power Applications (formerly IEE Proceedings). 2012 January; 6(1): 28-34. DOI: 10.1049/iet-epa.2011.0005
• Prediction of the oil flow distribution in oil-immersed transformer windings by network modelling and computational fluid dynamics. IET Research Journals - Electrical Power Applications (formerly IEE Proceedings). 2012 February; 6(2): 82-90. DOI: 10.1049/iet-epa.2011.0122

I am graduating in September 2011 with a PhD degree from School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Manchester. I am looking for a numerical modelling job.

I spent the past more than three years on the CFD simulations which are coupling between electric, thermal and fluid dynamic fields, from which I have accumulated rich experiences on modelling packages such as SALOME, Code_Saturne, Elmer, ParaView and COMSOL etc. I share experiences in this blog, which has also gained worldwide popularity.

I have been programming in C/C++, C#, VB.NET and Matlab since 2002. I also have experiences in Python (the script widely used for automation of modelling and the software such as SALOME and ParaView etc) and Fortran (the user routine definition for Code_Saturne) etc. Meanwhile, probably as a bonus, I am a fan of open-source software, Linux and Mac OS X. I even wrote device drivers for Linux and ported the MySQL client tool running on desktops onto embedded Linux platforms.

I bear high interests in numerical modelling and would like to pursue a career in this field. If you have relevant opportunities, please drop me an email (salad00 at gmail dot com). I really appreciate your help very much.

CUDA HeatTransfer1D program on Mac OS X

I recently ported the CUDA program for 1D heat transfer onto Mac OS X 10.6.8 and CUDA 4.0.31. I only modified the parts related to timing and the program could work perfectly.

The hardware platform comprises GeForce 320M, 950 MHz, and Intel Core 2 Duo P8600, 2.40 GHz. The computation times for GPU and CPU are 1.86 s and 2.15 s respectively; speedup of 1.16. Previously on Windows 7 and CUDA 3.1, GeForce 9800 GTX+ and Q6600 used calculation times 1.43 s and 5.04 s respectively.

The source code is attached for comments.