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Dakota - OpenFOAM Coupling

Download the tutorial from our GitHub tutorial repository.   Introduction In this post, the coupling of an OpenFOAM (v 4.0) simulation and Dakota (v6.4) optimization software will be discussed. The optimization goal is to find the angle-of-attack (AoA)

How to write VTK files in parallel

Writing a VTK file in Serial mode tutorials can be found on VTK example page and many various websites. However, a detailed example on how to output solution files in parallel (i.e. MPI) is almost nonexistent. The only related

Dakota

Dakota (Design Analysis Kit for Optimization and Terascale Applications) is a very comprehensive open-source library for optimization, uncertainty quantification, sensitivity analysis and calibration purposes. The effort started in 1994 by Sandia National Laboratories based in New Mexico. Dakota

Python - as a high level tool for simulations

Citing from their website; "Python is a programming language that lets you work more quickly and integrate your systems more effectively. You can learn to use Python and see almost immediate gains in productivity and lower maintenance costs." We

Valgrind

Citing from their website "Valgrind is an instrumentation framework for building dynamic analysis tools. There are Valgrind tools that can automatically detect many memory management and threading bugs, and profile your programs in detail. You can also use

First Post - Motivation for the blog

Dear Visitors, As a first post, we wanted to talk briefly on the motivation of our upcoming posts. We are a team of engineers working at Rotorbit Engineering (www.rotorbit.com). Our team has considerable experience in academia and industry conducting computational work.