[cognitor]

I am trying to find an expert to develop for me a source code in Delphi/ Pascal, for teaching purposes, (not Fortran or C++ or other languages). I want to get the source code and not only the application. The objective is to solve ONLY the type of problem showed in the figure showed in this link http://www.cognitor.com.br/ThesisExample.png . I do not need to solve problems more complex than this.. Preferably the code should have just this screen, a “calculate “button and the results would appear in the same screen as showed in the figure. There the input data appear in the red rectangles and the results data ( just 5 velocities in specific points) appear in the yellow circles.
I do not need professional interfaces and outputs with beautiful colored graphs, etc …. In principle I need just what is in this screen. If the results are in the range minus or plus 15 % of the measured values it is excellent for me.
The idea is that the code is as simplified as possible and uses an algorithm like SIMPLE or similar
The idea is to enter with the dimensions and to calculate the air velocities in the points P1 to P5 considering that the air enter from the lover opening at velocity V0 . The 2D approach is sufficient but it is possible that I will ask – in the future – for a new version with the same figure adding the 3rd axis for 3D .
The idea here is not to consider high velocities which could prorogue complex turbulence.... Just a teaching example for beginners. I know that there are excellent free tools and codes like Open Foam , etc.. but such codes are long for my objectives.

I imagine that many people in this group is able to do it or know some student or developer which could do it. For the ones which would like to send me a quotation to do this service please write to my private email sergiofeitoza@cognitor.com.br .I am in Brazil and if needed we can talk through Skype. I can speak in English, Spanish or Portuguese (and some French for small conversations) . If anyone have more questions or need more details please write to my private email Thank you very much in advance
Sergio Feitoza

[cognitor]

Could anyone give me an indication where I could get this answer ? Thank you very much in advance

[cdegroot]

Originally Posted by cognitor

Could anyone give me an indication where I could get this answer ? Thank you very much in advance

You might be lacking responses because of the Delpha/Pascal requirement. Those aren't popular languages anymore. If you said Python, I'd be interested.

[cognitor]

Hi cdegroot. When I started to work with GLscene years ago I heard about Python but never tried to understand what it is. Maybe it is the time now. I will try to read about how this language works and if it is the case I will write you. Do you suggest a godd "easy" text to understand the Python language ?
Regards Sergio If you need my private email is sergiofeitoza@cognitor.br

[cognitor]

I understood the language but it would take me so much time. Only Delphi /Pascal is acceptable in this case

[cdegroot]

You might be interested in this link, estimating the current popularity of programming languages http://langpop.com

Of course you are free to choose whichever programming language you want for your project, I'm just suggesting that currently it may be more difficult to recruit a good Delphi/Pascal programmer in comparison to some of the other languages that are more widely used right now.

If you did want a good reference on Python, I recommend "Programming in Python 3" by Mark Summerfield.

[cognitor]

Thaank you veru much cdegroot . I am starting to read this material. I am doing pros/cons assessment to see if I will go through Python to learn. I will contact you soon

[cognitor]

I found this here http://www.atug.com/andypatterns/pythonDelphiTalk.htm
Could you provide me a quotation for preparing the source code in Python Please send to my private email sergiofeitoza@cognitor.com.br

[cognitor]

I am looking for a Delphi developer to do the model in this post. You may write to my private email

[cognitor]

Could anyone suggest me some other forum or site to post this request ? Here up to now I did not succeed to find a developer interested in doing the work or even to quote it; I thank you for any help in advance.

I am trying to find an expert to develop for me a source code in Delphi/ Pascal, for teaching purposes, (not Fortran or C++ or other languages). I want to get the source code and not only the application. The objective is to solve ONLY the type of problem showed in the figure showed in this link http://www.cognitor.com.br/ThesisExample.png . I do not need to solve problems more complex than this.. Preferably the code should have just this screen, a “calculate “button and the results would appear in the same screen as showed in the figure. There the input data appear in the red rectangles and the results data ( just 5 velocities in specific points) appear in the yellow circles.
I do not need professional interfaces and outputs with beautiful colored graphs, etc …. In principle I need just what is in this screen. If the results are in the range minus or plus 15 % of the measured values it is excellent for me.
The idea is that the code is as simplified as possible and uses an algorithm like SIMPLE or similar
The idea is to enter with the dimensions and to calculate the air velocities in the points P1 to P5 considering that the air enter from the lover opening at velocity V0 . The 2D approach is sufficient but it is possible that I will ask – in the future – for a new version with the same figure adding the 3rd axis for 3D .
The idea here is not to consider high velocities which could prorogue complex turbulence.... Just a teaching example for beginners. I know that there are excellent free tools and codes like Open Foam , etc.. but such codes are long for my objectives.

I imagine that many people in this group is able to do it or know some student or developer which could do it. For the ones which would like to send me a quotation to do this service please write to my private email sergiofeitoza@cognitor.com.br .I am in Brazil and if needed we can talk through Skype. I can speak in English, Spanish or Portuguese (and some French for small conversations) . If anyone have more questions or need more details please write to my private email Thank you very much in advance
Sergio Feitoza

[andy_]

Originally Posted by cognitor

I am trying to find an expert to develop for me a source code in Delphi/ Pascal, for teaching purposes, (not Fortran or C++ or other languages). I want to get the source code and not only the application. The objective is to solve ONLY the type of problem showed in the figure showed in this link http://www.cognitor.com.br/ThesisExample.png

As someone who has written CFD teaching programs in the past your project looks a bit strange. A closed commercial single platform system like Delphi is not something that students would normally be asked to invest their time learning. A single specific parameterised geometry is not how engineering software is normally organised. Has this got something to do with "apps"?

A 2D Cartesian grid CFD solver with blockages and a few different types of boundary conditions is straightforward to implement in any language. Easy interactive graphics tends to follow from the platform/s which you do not specify. If Delphi really is a requirement (?) you may be better off going to a Delphi shop and giving them a suitable CFD code like TEACH or similar and getting them to translate it and add the user interface.

[cognitor]

Thank you for the reply. The main reason for the choice of Deçphi is that I work well with Delphi and only with Delphi. A can do something with Fortran but never succeded to do the forms well with Visual Fortran.Do you know where I can download Teach ? I tried to find it but could not identify a site? Here in Brazil I tried to find a software house to do more or less what you suggest but I did not find someone motivated. Do you have a name anywhere in the World to suggest ?
When I posted this in CFD on Line I was expecting to find someone interested in doing the work or at least to send a quotation but the only comments I got was that Delphi is not a good way to do it.

[andy_]

Originally Posted by cognitor

The main reason for the choice of Deçphi is that I work well with Delphi and only with Delphi.

You have adopted a minor proprietary commercial system that is of almost no interest to developers of CFD software particularly in academia. There is a cost associated with such a choice.

Originally Posted by cognitor

A can do something with Fortran but never succeded to do the forms well with Visual Fortran.

By forms do you mean the graphical user interface?

Originally Posted by cognitor

Do you know where I can download Teach ? I tried to find it but could not identify a site?

TEACH is old Fortran software from the 1970s. If you are having difficulties finding it then there are a number of later codes that are probably more suitable. I think this site has a list somewhere.

Originally Posted by cognitor

Here in Brazil I tried to find a software house to do more or less what you suggest but I did not find someone motivated. Do you have a name anywhere in the World to suggest ?

Delphi is an old minor commercial programming system that is on the way out. There is every chance that there are currently more Delphi shops than there is Delphi work. I suspect that almost any Delphi shop will perform your work if you define the task clearly and pay their rates.

Originally Posted by cognitor

When I posted this in CFD on Line I was expecting to find someone interested in doing the work or at least to send a quotation but the only comments I got was that Delphi is not a good way to do it.

I expect you would if you did not specify using Delphi. This is not a particularly appropriate tool for CFD software and so experienced developers of CFD software don't use it. It is also a proprietary commercial tool requiring a reason to purchase and learn it.

It isn't clear to me why you can't simply download and use an existing CFD program for no cost apart from a bit of time?

[cognitor]

Thank you Andy. I understand your points and will give some more details. The key point is that proper programing language for me, at my 59 years old, is the one that I can use without passing years again to learn. If you take a look in pages 294 to 332 of this download free book I wrote http://www.cognitor.com.br/Book_SE_SW_2013_ENG.pdf you will see screens of a software I developed in Delphi along the last years. It is not a CFD one but can produce some results that are possible – in a more precise way - with the CFD ones. Demo is here http://www.cognitor.com.br/InfoSoftEN.pdf
Many companies all over the World use it to develop electrical products. They use not because is free (for the participants of the trainings I apply like this http://www.cognitor.com.br/en_home.htm ). They use because it is easy to use and produce simulation results very near the ones obtained in real tests in expensive testing laboratories.
What I am trying to get with the request in my post is to improve a part of this above code to get more precise results. To do this I need only to be able to calculate the velocity of the air in a box as in the figure http://www.cognitor.com.br/ThesisExample.png . It would be enough if you replace that figure by the one showed in the classical problem http://www.cfd-online.com/Wiki/Sampl...)_-_Fortran_90 .
It is enough if I get a Delphi working code like this Lid Driven example using a SIMPLE algorithm. I imagine that among the readers of this forum there is people able to develop this. I want to pay for this but nobody sent me a quotation or just the name of a Delphi software house to translate. Maybe this Delphi
By the way, the idea here is to put this software as “free” when ready. After this I intend to reduce to almost zero my engineering activities and to work hard in my songs ( see her in the “English version” button http://www.gravadoravirtual.net/serg..._sergiofeitoza )
Regards and thanks again
Sergio sergiofeitoza@cognitor.com.br

[andy_]

I can see a need to modify your Delphi code to handle the input and output. You are probably in the best position to handle this since you know your code or perhaps a Delphi shop if you really do want to spend your money.

I can see no need to write a CFD code in Delphi. Take an existing CFD code and adapt it to pass data between your Delphi pre/post processor and the CFD code. This could be done by either making the CFD code a library and linking it with your Delphi program or by keeping the CFD code as a separate process and exchanging data in one of a number of ways. The latter is probably the most robust and flexible.

Assuming you do the Delphi task, the task for the CFD person would be to write a small program/script/routine to receive the input parameters from your Delphi program, setup and run the CFD program, obtain the output parameters and return them to the Delphi code. This is a small task of a type familiar to quite a few CFD users/developers. There are a number of choices for the existing CFD program, the language for the small program/script/routine and the mechanism for passing data between the Delphi program and the small program/script/routine.

[wyldckat]

Greetings to all!

Just my 2 cents:

1. Suggesting a Delphi development house is a bit hard, if no one on the forum has ever had this specific need.
2. There is an open-source alternative to Delphi called Lazarus: http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/
   • They have a forum for jobs: http://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/...oard,41.0.html
3. Honestly, the only people I can think of when thinking about Delphi/Pascal, are the ones that develop Inno Setup, such as:
   • Jordan Russell, the original developer: http://www.jrsoftware.org/contact.php
   • Martijn Laan, who added more features: https://github.com/martijnlaan
4. Beyond this, after a bit of Googling, this company seems nice: http://www.psoft.com.au/consulting/delphi_software.html
5. After this, any searches give the feeling that it's people looking for work, than software houses that can accept them for Delphi

I guess that we can only give thanks that you're not looking for CFD coding in COBOL

Good luck! Best regards,
Bruno

[cognitor]

Thank you very much wyldckat I am writing to them
This one about Cobol is great
When I was doing my electrical engineering in the 70´s we used it as well as Fortran. If we had a language like Fortran with a competente user interface like Delphi it would be great
Regards
Sergio

[elvis]

Hi,

unfortunately there is no delphi/freepascal support in swig

There is a python wrapper for openfoam called pythonflu but that project is not very active as well!

[cognitor]

Thank you Elvis