Open Source Tools For Fluid Dynamics

Open Source Tools For Fluid Dynamics

Venue:      DTU Lyngby Campus, building 101, meeting room S01

Date:         8 October 2025

Open source software tools are widely used both in academia and industry as alternatives or supplement to commercial closed source software. For academia, open source is in line with its wider ethos of free and open knowledge sharing and comprises a key element to ensure reproducibility of research results. For industries, open source software can significantly reduce costs of using, maintaining and developing software as well as increase flexibility and prevent vendor lock in. For both industry and academia, open source software provides a platform for common and shared research and development, pooling resources and fostering collaboration between the two. Within fluid dynamics there exists a myriad of open source tools for both experimental and numerical work. The perhaps best example is the OpenFOAM toolbox for computational fluid dynamics simulations, which is used by thousands of researchers and engineers all over the world. In this seminar we will see examples of specific usages of open source software in industry and academia. Besides from the specific examples, presenters have been asked to reflect on what the availability of open source solutions means for their specific domain of work.

Programme

Time  
09:00 Registration and Coffee
09:30 Welcome and presentation of seminar
Johan Rønby, RUC/STROMNING
09:45 Title to be announced
TBA
10:30 Title to be announced
Erik Lillberg, Vattenfall
11:00 Coffee break
11:15 Paraview with a Twist! Kitware open source software for CFD and DEM engineers
Mathieu Westphal, Kitware
ParaView is the main scientific visualisation software for many simulation code and used by many. Newer version of ParaView contains tons of new feature yet to be used to their full potential. Discover how Kitware and ParaView can help you analyse your CFD and DEM results with millions of particles using advanced techniques like temporal particle tracing or customized glyphing!
11:45 Title to be announced
Federico Piscaglia, Politecnico di Milano
12:15 Lunch break
13:15 Title to be announced
Henning Scheufler, NeoFoam project member
13:45 Simulation of liquid metal flows - the role of open-source tools from physical understanding to industrial applications
Lilla Koloszar, von Karman Institute
14:15 Coffee break
14:30 Title to be announced
Simon Eberhard, DTU
15:00 Title to be announced
Johan Rønby, RUC/STROMNING
15:30 Closing remarks
Knud Erik Meyer, DANSIS chairman