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Thouelfaqar December 2, 2010 04:47

Caelinux discretizer front end to openfoam
 
In the name of Allah, Peace and Prayers upon prophet Mohamed and all prophets

Dear colleagues,
I was working with caelinux discretizer frontend to openfoam. However, I have some problems:
1. There are two discretizer programs in the applications menu, I don't really know the difference between them.
2. The first discretizer worked fine when I tried tutorial, however, even when I change the solver I enter, in the terminal the solver is always displayed as simpleFoam, regardless of what I enter
3. Also, I have complete cases from chalmers university site. When I open the run dialogue in discretizer and input their path, I get fatal error, cannot open folder message
I hope any one can help me.
I am trying to encourage my students to use opensource, especially, that at our university, we really have no budget to buy commercial equivalents like COMSOL and fluent

wyldckat December 4, 2010 09:18

Greetings Abouelseoud and welcome to the forum!
Quote:

Originally Posted by Thouelfaqar (Post 285699)
1. There are two discretizer programs in the applications menu, I don't really know the difference between them.

One is Discretizer and was developed to design the geometries and generate the meshes for using in OpenFOAM. The other is Discretizer::Setup and was developed to assist in the execution of the cases. AFAIK, both aren't fully developed tools (I believe that there is only one person developing the software), but there a few resources you can check:
Quote:

Originally Posted by Thouelfaqar (Post 285699)
2. The first discretizer worked fine when I tried tutorial, however, even when I change the solver I enter, in the terminal the solver is always displayed as simpleFoam, regardless of what I enter
3. Also, I have complete cases from chalmers university site. When I open the run dialogue in discretizer and input their path, I get fatal error, cannot open folder message

I'm not sure which version of Discretizer does CAELinux pack with it, but you can try updating it with the latest version available Discretizer's home page.
And like I've said before, both aren't fully developed tools, so you will probably find various capabilities that are still very limited :(

Quote:

Originally Posted by Thouelfaqar (Post 285699)
I am trying to encourage my students to use opensource, especially, that at our university, we really have no budget to buy commercial equivalents like COMSOL and fluent

You might want to check out www.extend-project.de, register there, browse and ask around if there is already a cooperation between universities. I believe that if there isn't one yet, they should be starting soon... or so I hope. OpenFOAM is a free and very powerful CFD toolbox, but it also a toolbox with a very steep learning curve :( At least depending on what you need it for ;)

Best regards and good luck!
Bruno

Thouelfaqar December 4, 2010 10:59

In the name of Allah, Peace and Prayers upon prophet Mohamed and all prophets

Dear wyldckat,
Than kyou very much for your reply. I'll try to follow your remarks carefully and keep you informed with our progress of using OpenFOAM at our university. I think you're right with discretizer not being fully developed and I do believe that since the tutorial worked well, that most probably the errors that resulted with other applications were due to bugs. We'll try to get around them or work from the OpenFOAM terminal.

Quote:

Originally Posted by wyldckat (Post 285989)
Greetings Abouelseoud and welcome to the forum!One is Discretizer and was developed to design the geometries and generate the meshes for using in OpenFOAM. The other is Discretizer::Setup and was developed to assist in the execution of the cases. AFAIK, both aren't fully developed tools (I believe that there is only one person developing the software), but there a few resources you can check:
I'm not sure which version of Discretizer does CAELinux pack with it, but you can try updating it with the latest version available Discretizer's home page.
And like I've said before, both aren't fully developed tools, so you will probably find various capabilities that are still very limited :(

You might want to check out www.extend-project.de, register there, browse and ask around if there is already a cooperation between universities. I believe that if there isn't one yet, they should be starting soon... or so I hope. OpenFOAM is a free and very powerful CFD toolbox, but it also a toolbox with a very steep learning curve :( At least depending on what you need it for ;)

Best regards and good luck!
Bruno


basilwatson December 7, 2010 04:26

Hi there

Bjorn (sp) the developer has updated the software, and it seems better, I have used it to run simple meshes in simplefoam.

the developer has a Gmail account and is very good at replying to questions

kind regards Stephen

Thouelfaqar March 2, 2011 04:50

In the name of Allah the most merciful and gracious . Peace and Prayers upon prophet Mohamed and all prophets

I would like to thank you all for your comments and concern. They really encouraged me not to give up. I thank God for that. Things are getting some what better. I've tried to help my students by making educational videos of what I learnt with both openFoam and code_saturne. I 'll quote the links to them , may be they may be helpful to some of your students. The comments are in Arabic. However, the video is clear with out comments. Of course , we are still learning and I am not quite satisfied with results accuracy yet, though they are some what reasonable. Also, I may be making some mistakes because I am working fast but at least I hope that these videos will save others "the 4 months I had to spend on getting things work" . Any comments are welcome either at the forum or at our research group email: mashaheedanfsa@gmail.com
Here are the links to the educational videos:
http://rapidshare.com/files/44731691...llah_ubuntu.7z
http://rapidshare.com/files/44712732..._draw_mesh.zip
http://rapidshare.com/files/44731894...d_Tjunction.7z
http://rapidshare.com/files/44780232...ntroduction.7z
http://rapidshare.com/files/44781041...oam_saturne.7z
http://rapidshare.com/files/45054498...ode_saturne.7z
http://rapidshare.com/files/45054590...LLAH_WIGLEY.7z

Note you may get 7z software at:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/seve..._mirror=freefr

Also, there are some links regarding using neural networks. These can be used in conjunction with CFD simulators like OpenFoam and code saturne to optimize a design, so those interested in optimization may find the following links (especially of example 3) useful
http://rapidshare.com/files/44854107...lah_ANN_MLP.7z
http://rapidshare.com/files/44823740...ah_ANN_NGML.7z
http://rapidshare.com/files/44852069...NN_example1.7z
http://rapidshare.com/files/44834373...NN_example2.7z
http://rapidshare.com/files/44845668...mple3_parta.7z
http://rapidshare.com/files/44836034...mple3_partb.7z
http://rapidshare.com/files/44833258...mple3_partc.7z

//**THIS COMING ONE IS VERY IMPORTANT FOR EXAMPLE 3 CONCEPTUAL AND ERROR CORRECTIONS
http://rapidshare.com/files/44942722...working_now.7z

Thouelfaqar March 17, 2011 14:36

In the name of Allah the most merciful and gracious . Peace and Prayers upon prophet Mohamed and all prophets
I posted earlier links to cases and educational videos for students who may be interested in getting started with openFoam and code saturne over CAElinux and using it with optimization.
Thank to God , ever since, I added some more trials that I'd like to share with you. They should be useful for those in marine engineering education.

http://rapidshare.com/files/45296008...ind_turbine.7z
http://rapidshare.com/files/45296191...ah_floating.7z
http://rapidshare.com/files/45297309...llating_box.7z
http://rapidshare.com/files/45299368...ructure_box.7z
http://rapidshare.com/files/45304511...ah_shipfoam.7z

I tried to post these as a new thread with the title "EDU. VIDEOS" but some how I totally can't find how I can start a new thread.
I attach my earlier message containing the other videos that we made earlier for reference.
Your comments are welcome either here or at mashaheedanfsa@gmail.com
Thank you very much

OLD MESSAGE:

In the name of Allah the most merciful and gracious . Peace and Prayers upon prophet Mohamed and all prophets

I would like to thank you all for your comments and concern. They really encouraged me not to give up. I thank God for that. Things are getting some what better. I've tried to help my students by making educational videos of what I learnt with both openFoam and code_saturne. I 'll quote the links to them , may be they may be helpful to some of your students. The comments are in Arabic. However, the video is clear with out comments. Of course , we are still learning and I am not quite satisfied with results accuracy yet, though they are some what reasonable. Also, I may be making some mistakes because I am working fast but at least I hope that these videos will save others "the 4 months I had to spend on getting things work" . Any comments are welcome either at the forum or at our research group email: mashaheedanfsa@gmail.com
Here are the links to the educational videos:
http://rapidshare.com/files/44731691...llah_ubuntu.7z
http://rapidshare.com/files/44712732..._draw_mesh.zip
http://rapidshare.com/files/44731894...d_Tjunction.7z
http://rapidshare.com/files/44780232...ntroduction.7z
http://rapidshare.com/files/44781041...oam_saturne.7z
http://rapidshare.com/files/45054498...ode_saturne.7z
http://rapidshare.com/files/45054590...LLAH_WIGLEY.7z

Note you may get 7z software at:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/seve..._mirror=freefr

Also, there are some links regarding using neural networks. These can be used in conjunction with CFD simulators like OpenFoam and code saturne to optimize a design, so those interested in optimization may find the following links (especially of example 3) useful
http://rapidshare.com/files/44854107...lah_ANN_MLP.7z
http://rapidshare.com/files/44823740...ah_ANN_NGML.7z
http://rapidshare.com/files/44852069...NN_example1.7z
http://rapidshare.com/files/44834373...NN_example2.7z
http://rapidshare.com/files/44845668...mple3_parta.7z
http://rapidshare.com/files/44836034...mple3_partb.7z
http://rapidshare.com/files/44833258...mple3_partc.7z

//**THIS COMING ONE IS VERY IMPORTANT FOR EXAMPLE 3 CONCEPTUAL AND ERROR CORRECTIONS
http://rapidshare.com/files/44942722...working_now.7z

Islam ElQatary May 16, 2011 12:33

Quote:

Originally Posted by Thouelfaqar (Post 297612)
In the name of Allah the most merciful and gracious . Peace and Prayers upon prophet Mohamed and all prophets

I would like to thank you all for your comments and concern. They really encouraged me not to give up. I thank God for that. Things are getting some what better. I've tried to help my students by making educational videos of what I learnt with both openFoam and code_saturne. I 'll quote the links to them , may be they may be helpful to some of your students. The comments are in Arabic. However, the video is clear with out comments. Of course , we are still learning and I am not quite satisfied with results accuracy yet, though they are some what reasonable. Also, I may be making some mistakes because I am working fast but at least I hope that these videos will save others "the 4 months I had to spend on getting things work" . Any comments are welcome either at the forum or at our research group email: mashaheedanfsa@gmail.com
Here are the links to the educational videos:
http://rapidshare.com/files/44731691...llah_ubuntu.7z
http://rapidshare.com/files/44712732..._draw_mesh.zip
http://rapidshare.com/files/44731894...d_Tjunction.7z
http://rapidshare.com/files/44780232...ntroduction.7z
http://rapidshare.com/files/44781041...oam_saturne.7z
http://rapidshare.com/files/45054498...ode_saturne.7z
http://rapidshare.com/files/45054590...LLAH_WIGLEY.7z

Note you may get 7z software at:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/seve..._mirror=freefr

Also, there are some links regarding using neural networks. These can be used in conjunction with CFD simulators like OpenFoam and code saturne to optimize a design, so those interested in optimization may find the following links (especially of example 3) useful
http://rapidshare.com/files/44854107...lah_ANN_MLP.7z
http://rapidshare.com/files/44823740...ah_ANN_NGML.7z
http://rapidshare.com/files/44852069...NN_example1.7z
http://rapidshare.com/files/44834373...NN_example2.7z
http://rapidshare.com/files/44845668...mple3_parta.7z
http://rapidshare.com/files/44836034...mple3_partb.7z
http://rapidshare.com/files/44833258...mple3_partc.7z

//**THIS COMING ONE IS VERY IMPORTANT FOR EXAMPLE 3 CONCEPTUAL AND ERROR CORRECTIONS
http://rapidshare.com/files/44942722...working_now.7z

thank u alot for these videos but do u have any idea how to generate solution around airfoil2d from drawing geometry and then mesh because i tried but i did not succeed with generating geometry and mesh of the airfoil 2d
god help u

Thouelfaqar May 17, 2011 01:29

In the name of Allah the most merciful and gracious . Peace and Prayers upon prophet Mohamed and all prophets

Dear colleague,
You can enter the air-foil points as wire points in SALOME and let it drawn inside a larger rectangle. Use "cut" then to cut out the foil from inside the rectangle. Then use extrude to extrude the whole geometry in the third dimension perpendicular to the foil plane. I know the problem is 2D but both openFoam and saturne entitle you to extrude 2D problems with very small thickness because they cannot handle 2D problem. This is very similar to the video forAllah_Salome_draw_mesh, however, the foil will be in place of the circle. When you finish, use the airfoil tutorial in openFoam to know how to define the boundary conditions. The video forAllah_drag_openFoam_saturne tells you how the mesh can be exported to openFoam. I've asked the same assignment from 2 of my students. You may email them to see how they progressed with it. ( ali_alex_and@yahoo.com, eslam_699@hotmail.com)
I'll try with it myself and as soon as I get any progress, I'll keep you informed.
God be with you and help you.

Islam ElQatary May 17, 2011 07:22

Quote:

Originally Posted by Thouelfaqar (Post 307886)
In the name of Allah the most merciful and gracious . Peace and Prayers upon prophet Mohamed and all prophets

Dear colleague,
You can enter the air-foil points as wire points in SALOME and let it drawn inside a larger rectangle. Use "cut" then to cut out the foil from inside the rectangle. Then use extrude to extrude the whole geometry in the third dimension perpendicular to the foil plane. I know the problem is 2D but both openFoam and saturne entitle you to extrude 2D problems with very small thickness because they cannot handle 2D problem. This is very similar to the video forAllah_Salome_draw_mesh, however, the foil will be in place of the circle. When you finish, use the airfoil tutorial in openFoam to know how to define the boundary conditions. The video forAllah_drag_openFoam_saturne tells you how the mesh can be exported to openFoam. I've asked the same assignment from 2 of my students. You may email them to see how they progressed with it. ( ali_alex_and@yahoo.com, eslam_699@hotmail.com)
I'll try with it myself and as soon as I get any progress, I'll keep you informed.
God be with you and help you.

thank u for replying
i did what u told me i draw geometry with salome and then used Discretizer Case Setup it generates all the files needed to open foam except cells file in the polymesh dict and this error appeared
--> FOAM FATAL IO ERROR:
Unable to set reference cell for field p
Please supply either pRefCell or pRefPoint


file: /home/islam/airfoil3/system/fvSolution::SIMPLE from line 59 to line 59.

From function void Foam::setRefCell
(
const volScalarField&,
const volScalarField&,
const dictionary&,
label& scalar&,
bool
)
in file cfdTools/general/findRefCell/findRefCell.C at line 115.

FOAM exiting
do u have any idea how i could solve this problem
god bless u

Thouelfaqar May 17, 2011 09:21

In the name of Allah the most merciful and gracious . Peace and Prayers upon prophet Mohamed and all prophets

Dear colleague,
Could you either attach the files here or send them to my son (student) eslam at eslam_699@hotmail.com. He will give them to me. Just tell him that Dr. Abouelseoud told you to post these files so that we can help you figure out what the problem is.

Islam ElQatary May 17, 2011 12:42

Quote:

Originally Posted by Thouelfaqar (Post 307965)
In the name of Allah the most merciful and gracious . Peace and Prayers upon prophet Mohamed and all prophets

Dear colleague,
Could you either attach the files here or send them to my son (student) eslam at eslam_699@hotmail.com. He will give them to me. Just tell him that Dr. Abouelseoud told you to post these files so that we can help you figure out what the problem is.

Dear colleague
i already sent an email with the same contents to ur student with the files any way here is the link of my files

https://rapidshare.com/files/287119923/airfoil3.zip
and the geometric & mesh file is

https://rapidshare.com/files/855940017/FFA_24_Mesh.hdf

thank u

Thouelfaqar May 18, 2011 13:28

In the name of Allah the most merciful and gracious . Peace and Prayers upon prophet Mohamed and all prophets

Dear colleague,
in the file
airfoil3/system/fvSolution
just replace
SIMPLE
{
nNonOrthogonalCorrectors 0;
}

by
SIMPLE
{
nNonOrthogonalCorrectors 0;
pRefCell 0;
pRefValue 0;
}
My experience with discretizer is that the exported case folder often needs editing, so when I get an error message I just search in the openFoam tutorial folder with the keyword that appeared in the message(here pRefCell) to know how to correct it.
In this case, I found the correction in the airfoil2D tutorial in (/tutorials/incompressible/simpleFoam/airfoil2D)
However, when I corrected this mistake I still got an error because openFoam sees the mesh as not 2D. Please try to remesh but this time make the thickness in the third dimension one cell only.
I hope this helps. I 'll try to take a look at the geometry and mesh files. I didn't notice them when I logged in yesterday.

Islam ElQatary May 18, 2011 17:35

hi
it's already 1 cell in the third direction i used Netgen 1D-2D-3D for meshing
is that right or i suppose to use another method
thanks

Thouelfaqar May 20, 2011 08:13

In the name of Allah the most merciful and gracious . Peace and Prayers upon prophet Mohamed and all prophets

Dear colleague,
If you opened the Mesh_1.unv you sent me with a text editor like gedit, you will find that the mesh is not one cell thick in the third dimension (there are several coordinates in the third dimension not just 2 values). To overcome this do this:
Define edge groups over cut_1 for inlet,outlet, upper, bottom , wall ..
Use Netgen 1D-2D to generate a mesh for cut_1
Use create groups from geometry to import the edge groups you created. You will find that they appear with _extruded added to their names.
in the mesh module in the modifications menu, choose extrude mesh and make sure that you choose 1 step and that the generate groups is ticked.
(I found these steps at:
http://www.salome-platform.org/forum...10/thread_3005
)
In the preferences in the file menu in Salome, make sure that automatically generate groups is ticked.
export the mesh to med
(these last two steps are necessary because with out them the extruded groups will not appear in the discretizer)
open the med file in from gmsh and save it as unv mesh file. Now if you open it with an editor you will find it is trully 1 cell thick (the 3rd coordinate is either 0 or 1). However, I still get the same openFoam error that the mesh is 3D.
--> FOAM FATAL ERROR:
This mesh contains patches of type empty but is not 1D or 2D
by virtue of the fact that the number of faces of this
empty patch is not divisible by the number of cells.

From function emptyFvPatchField<Type>::updateCoeffs()
in file fields/fvPatchFields/constraint/empty/emptyFvPatchField.C at line 150.

FOAM exiting

I am willing to give it a second try by next friday ISA because this week is very busy for us because we are preparing some conference work.
In order not to be delaying you, my attempt and some snapshots showing the choices in Salome are at:
http://www.islamup.com/download.php?id=125906
http://www.islamup.com/download.php?id=125907
If there is any problem with downloading the files just tell me. My mesh in the salome study is Mesh_3

Islam ElQatary May 20, 2011 08:43

thank u for time i'll try and hopefully it works
see u

Islam ElQatary May 20, 2011 18:32

Quote:

Originally Posted by Thouelfaqar (Post 308558)
In the name of Allah the most merciful and gracious . Peace and Prayers upon prophet Mohamed and all prophets

Dear colleague,
If you opened the Mesh_1.unv you sent me with a text editor like gedit, you will find that the mesh is not one cell thick in the third dimension (there are several coordinates in the third dimension not just 2 values). To overcome this do this:
Define edge groups over cut_1 for inlet,outlet, upper, bottom , wall ..
Use Netgen 1D-2D to generate a mesh for cut_1
Use create groups from geometry to import the edge groups you created. You will find that they appear with _extruded added to their names.
in the mesh module in the modifications menu, choose extrude mesh and make sure that you choose 1 step and that the generate groups is ticked.
(I found these steps at:
http://www.salome-platform.org/forum...10/thread_3005
)
In the preferences in the file menu in Salome, make sure that automatically generate groups is ticked.
export the mesh to med
(these last two steps are necessary because with out them the extruded groups will not appear in the discretizer)
open the med file in from gmsh and save it as unv mesh file. Now if you open it with an editor you will find it is trully 1 cell thick (the 3rd coordinate is either 0 or 1). However, I still get the same openFoam error that the mesh is 3D.
--> FOAM FATAL ERROR:
This mesh contains patches of type empty but is not 1D or 2D
by virtue of the fact that the number of faces of this
empty patch is not divisible by the number of cells.

From function emptyFvPatchField<Type>::updateCoeffs()
in file fields/fvPatchFields/constraint/empty/emptyFvPatchField.C at line 150.

FOAM exiting

I am willing to give it a second try by next friday ISA because this week is very busy for us because we are preparing some conference work.
In order not to be delaying you, my attempt and some snapshots showing the choices in Salome are at:
http://www.islamup.com/download.php?id=125906
http://www.islamup.com/download.php?id=125907
If there is any problem with downloading the files just tell me. My mesh in the salome study is Mesh_3

i tried what u did what u told me but it's keeping make an error when i loaded it with discretizer "Failed to load opt/discretizer/discretizer/svn/discretizersetup/1 please select openFoam case dir" the funny about that this error does not appear with the wrong mesh but sure appear with the right one funny right? :S
i know i'm a tedious person sorry about that
god bless u

Thouelfaqar May 21, 2011 01:21

In the name of Allah the most merciful and gracious . Peace and Prayers upon prophet Mohamed and all prophets

Dear colleague,
You are always very welcome to ask. I just hope you would forgive me for not having time to work on it and give it a second try before next friday. For now, I'm really not familiar with running cases to the end with discretizer. I just use it to import the mesh to Foam constant folder and all the rest I edit manually because with my Caelinux2010, it appears discretizer has several bugs. Consider mailing the correct mesh with the error message that appeared to the person who developed discretizer. He responds to emails and I am sure he is eager to recover from any bugs with his program. His email is
bjorn.bergqvist@gmail.com
It would be great , if he would help us overcome discretizer bugs. This would make things easier to many openFoam users.

Islam ElQatary May 21, 2011 04:34

Quote:

Originally Posted by Thouelfaqar (Post 308648)
In the name of Allah the most merciful and gracious . Peace and Prayers upon prophet Mohamed and all prophets

Dear colleague,
You are always very welcome to ask. I just hope you would forgive me for not having time to work on it and give it a second try before next friday. For now, I'm really not familiar with running cases to the end with discretizer. I just use it to import the mesh to Foam constant folder and all the rest I edit manually because with my Caelinux2010, it appears discretizer has several bugs. Consider mailing the correct mesh with the error message that appeared to the person who developed discretizer. He responds to emails and I am sure he is eager to recover from any bugs with his program. His email is
bjorn.bergqvist@gmail.com
It would be great , if he would help us overcome discretizer bugs. This would make things easier to many openFoam users.

Do u know another program do the same function
And I just wonder if there is a tutorial video to do as u doing with the mesh specially with complex shapes and 2d problems
Bye

Thouelfaqar June 1, 2011 01:57

In the name of Allah the most merciful and gracious . Peace and Prayers upon prophet Mohamed and all prophets

Dear colleague,
I just want to apologize for not giving it a second try on Friday as I promised. It's just that just after I promised to try to help again a few days later one of my sons died. I still am not able to concentrate well on anything, so please forgive me.

Islam ElQatary June 5, 2011 05:46

Quote:

Originally Posted by Thouelfaqar (Post 310057)
In the name of Allah the most merciful and gracious . Peace and Prayers upon prophet Mohamed and all prophets

Dear colleague,
I just want to apologize for not giving it a second try on Friday as I promised. It's just that just after I promised to try to help again a few days later one of my sons died. I still am not able to concentrate well on anything, so please forgive me.

Dear colleague
I am so sorry for ur son I just open my email just now so forgive me.
Take ur time
My deep Condolences
See u

Thouelfaqar July 7, 2011 08:55

Update for the links I posted earlier to educational videos
 
In the name of Allah, the most merciful and gracious. Peace upon prophet Mohamed and all prophets

Dear colleagues,
Since some of the links may have expired, we reuploaded them.
We also added some videos related to fluid structure interaction, which is expected to be quite important in advanced boat design. (The new links are at the end of the post. Note that I upload each file to 2 different sites , hoping that atleast one site would be easy for you to download from wherever you are). Hope you find them useful.

forAllah_ubuntu.7z (103.28 MB) http://www.multiupload.com/VQCWH1ERQZ
forAllah_drag_saturne_openfoam.7z (103.97 MB) http://www.multiupload.com/3F4KF9QVOK
forAllah_shipfoam_better.7z (107.67 MB) http://www.multiupload.com/TAY2V49KID
forAllah_fluid_structure_box.7z (41.82 MB) http://www.multiupload.com/P6NVFVRLTU
forAllah_CAELinux order_START_WITH_THIS.jpg (56.91 KB) http://www.multiupload.com/L9X87VK2UG
forAllah_oscillating_box.7z (27.73 MB) http://www.multiupload.com/LZEX6THGVD
forAllah_floating.7z (56.85 MB) http://www.multiupload.com/L26BBXC16D
forAllah_Wind_turbine.7z http://www.multiupload.com/LW8L0ZIY7E
forAllah_salome_draw_mesh.7z http://www.mlfnt.com/do.php?id=507041
http://www.multiupload.com/RHMWFUAUE7
FORALLAH_WIGLEY.7z http://www.multiupload.com/3HMEJHZSEF
forAllah_openFoam_introduction.7z http://www.multiupload.com/WHGC8E13X7
forAllah_salome_fluid_Tjunction.7z (90.09 MB) http://www.multiupload.com/KF0L4M4VBQ

Alternatively, the same above links are uploaded at the following links as multivolume archive
readme : http://www.mlfnt.com/do.php?id=534989
http://www.mlfnt.com/do.php?id=533394
http://www.mlfnt.com/do.php?id=534119
http://www.mlfnt.com/do.php?id=534851
http://www.mlfnt.com/do.php?id=534988
http://www.mlfnt.com/do.php?id=535999
http://www.mlfnt.com/do.php?id=536966
http://www.mlfnt.com/do.php?id=537448
http://www.mlfnt.com/do.php?id=537478
http://www.mlfnt.com/do.php?id=537540
http://www.mlfnt.com/do.php?id=537669
http://www.mlfnt.com/do.php?id=537797



The links for ANNs

forAllah_ANN_theory.7z (224.39 MB) http://www.multiupload.com/V1FXNJILMT
forAllah_ANN_example1.7z (123.6 MB) http://www.multiupload.com/8HJXE9S1D7
forAllah_ANN_example2.7z (83.52 MB) http://www.multiupload.com/1WUU1ES7AP
forAllah_ANN_example3_parta.7z (169.78 MB) http://www.multiupload.com/4GFOJ9HQZ1
forAllah_ANN_example3_partb.7z (95.19 MB) http://www.multiupload.com/9624T2D4G5
forallah_ANN_example3_partc.7z (41.95 MB) http://www.multiupload.com/B5F60WI03Q
forAllah_ANN_example3_working_now.7z (137.85 MB) http://www.multiupload.com/PH45YWSU1F

The new links for finite element and FSI

code_aster Finite element structural analysis software
http://www.multiupload.com/EOHCLH4MSK
http://www.mlfnt.com/do.php?id=505672

Fluid structure interaction using openfoam (FSI)

forAllah_icostructfoam_FSI_part1.7z (26.68 MB) http://www.multiupload.com/YN6C2B4YO2
http://www.mlfnt.com/do.php?id=506216
forAllah_openfoam_extend_FSI_part2.7z (21.79 MB) http://www.multiupload.com/6GKACUHGGF
http://www.mlfnt.com/do.php?id=506217
forAllah_FSI_part3.7z (25.44 MB) http://www.multiupload.com/JVDIDIBO97
http://www.mlfnt.com/do.php?id=506218


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Islam ElQatary July 15, 2011 10:57

thank you for ur effort
i just wanna know what is the meaning of ANN theory

Thouelfaqar July 15, 2011 18:00

Quote:

Originally Posted by Islam ElQatary (Post 316264)
thank you for ur effort
i just wanna know what is the meaning of ANN theory

In the name of Allah, the most merciful and gracious. Peace upon prophet Mohamed and all prophets

Dear colleague,
ANN theory is the the theory of artificial neural networks (ANNs), which are a tool that can be used in ship design. ANNs are mathematical methods for approximating a certain function based on existing data samples. You can train an ANN to take as an input the air foil coordinates and give as output the drag coefficients. (this is prediction) You can train it to take as input the drag coeff. and give as output the coordinates (this is design). The video ANN theory explains in more details.
http://forallahproject.blogspot.com/
contains several papers that use ANNs in design

Thouelfaqar July 24, 2011 02:17

Caelinux operating system iso file
 
In the name of Allah, the most merciful and gracious. Peace upon prophet Mohamed and all prophets

Since the educational videos depend on Caelinux operating system and downloading the iso file from caelinux website may be difficult due to its size, we divided it into a set of smaller files and uploaded them to the following links

forAllah_caelinux_iso_mup.7z.001 (221 MB) http://www.multiupload.com/J2L4MSOM9C
forAllah_caelinux_iso_mup.7z.002 (221 MB) http://www.multiupload.com/ASD4WV5XFW
forAllah_caelinux_iso_mup.7z.003 (221 MB) http://www.multiupload.com/L7CLHE15BJ
forAllah_caelinux_iso_mup.7z.004 (221 MB) http://www.multiupload.com/6PE3W2II2R
forAllah_caelinux_iso_mup.7z.005 (221 MB) http://www.multiupload.com/3DCDR8NCZT
forAllah_caelinux_iso_mup.7z.006 (221 MB) http://www.multiupload.com/4NANFCU9ON
forAllah_caelinux_iso_mup.7z.007 (221 MB) http://www.multiupload.com/8KVCTR11A0
forAllah_caelinux_iso_mup.7z.008 (221 MB) http://www.multiupload.com/B4XMSRZ8EY
forAllah_caelinux_iso_mup.7z.009 (221 MB) http://www.multiupload.com/I5SVI83XNY
forAllah_caelinux_iso_mup.7z.010 (221 MB) http://www.multiupload.com/T74AJK218C
forAllah_caelinux_iso_mup.7z.011 (221 MB) http://www.multiupload.com/AAWWUWEFXE
forAllah_caelinux_iso_mup.7z.012 (221 MB) http://www.multiupload.com/QXNAD3XFVK
forAllah_caelinux_iso_mup.7z.013 (221 MB) http://www.multiupload.com/3V53FR04HN
forAllah_caelinux_iso_mup.7z.014 (221 MB) http://www.multiupload.com/ATXZLYHKTQ
forAllah_caelinux_iso_mup.7z.015 (221 MB) http://www.multiupload.com/RYNA8V9R7C
forAllah_caelinux_iso_mup.7z.016 (221 MB) http://www.multiupload.com/XXVAZNKNYU
forAllah_caelinux_iso_mup.7z.017 (128.74 MB) http://www.multiupload.com/6EUOFPAZI3

Once you download this multivolume archive, unzip it then use a suitable software to make a live DVD or live USB Flash to boot your computer from them


Restart and press DEL to enter set up (this varies from computer to another, it may be F12 or F1 or F2 for you) and change boot order to boot from the DVD or USB Flash

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Linse July 25, 2011 14:15

Videos and their comprehensibility
 
Dear Abouelseoud,

thank You very much already now for sharing these tutorials! Unfortunately I did not yet have time for watching them, but the topics seem highly interesting, so I certainly will try to follow them!

Up to now I only downloaded the videos connected to salome and openFoam. Could You please tell me, which ones of the other videos are comprehensible (or if that list is shorter - incomprehensible) for non-Arabic-speakers as well?

Moreover: Do You have a list in English, French or German of the research articles Your group published on the artificial neural networks and their use in optimization? While for me that is a thing of mere interest/couriosity, for my thesis adviser they actually might be of real professional interest...

Thank You for Your answers already in advance!

Sincerely,
Bernhard

Thouelfaqar July 25, 2011 15:13

In the name of Allah, the most merciful and gracious. Peace upon prophet Mohamed and all prophets

Dear Bernhard,
Thank you very much for your encouraging message.
First: I don't think the Arabic comments are at all necessary for following the CFD videos, they are self-explanatory with out any comments. The comments were just additional help for my students. If you find any step not clear, please do not hesitate to ask. I admit though for the ANN theory videos, especially, the comments are necessary. I'll try in future videos, God's willing, to include remarks in English as well as in Arabic.

Second: I think these are the most important videos: Only 1,2, 3 and 4 are important to start with :the rest you can watch from them what suits your area of research in the order that is convenient for you:

1. For those not familiar with ubuntu:
forAllah_ubuntu.7z (103.28 MB) http://www.multiupload.com/VQCWH1ERQZ

2. For those new to openFoam:

forAllah_openFoam_introduction.7z http://www.multiupload.com/WHGC8E13X7

3. To learn how to draw and mesh :
forAllah_salome_draw_mesh.7z http://www.mlfnt.com/do.php?id=507041
http://www.multiupload.com/RHMWFUAUE7

4. A complete simple example of Salome/openFoam/code_saturne
forAllah_drag_saturne_openfoam.7z (103.97 MB) http://www.multiupload.com/3F4KF9QVOK

5. For those interested in ship design using CFD:
forAllah_shipfoam_better.7z (107.67 MB) http://www.multiupload.com/TAY2V49KID
FORALLAH_WIGLEY.7z http://www.multiupload.com/3HMEJHZSEF

6. For those interested in Fluid structure interaction
forAllah_openfoam_extend_FSI_part2.7z (21.79 MB) http://www.multiupload.com/6GKACUHGGF
http://www.mlfnt.com/do.php?id=506217
forAllah_FSI_part3.7z (25.44 MB) http://www.multiupload.com/JVDIDIBO97
http://www.mlfnt.com/do.php?id=506218

7. For those working with finite element -based structural analysis
code_aster Finite element structural analysis software
http://www.multiupload.com/EOHCLH4MSK
http://www.mlfnt.com/do.php?id=505672


Third, the following are links to work our research group published involving ANNs: they are in English
http://www.multiupload.com/K4S63RU8ZZ
http://www.multiupload.com/MDRA74WVYR

Hope this helps. Thank you very much again for your encouragement

Note: I browse the Internet with out loading pictures(edit-->preference option-->content--> load images automatically is unchecked) and with flashblock (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...on/flashblock/), so I would not notice if any of the uploading sites is not respectful enough. Although , I upload to these sites because they are recommended as decent still if any one noticed that any of the sites I upload to contain indecent content, please tell me so that I would look for more respectful sites.

Thouelfaqar July 27, 2011 08:58

Quote:

Originally Posted by Linse (Post 317435)
Dear Abouelseoud,

thank You very much already now for sharing these tutorials! Unfortunately I did not yet have time for watching them, but the topics seem highly interesting, so I certainly will try to follow them!

Up to now I only downloaded the videos connected to salome and openFoam. Could You please tell me, which ones of the other videos are comprehensible (or if that list is shorter - incomprehensible) for non-Arabic-speakers as well?

Moreover: Do You have a list in English, French or German of the research articles Your group published on the artificial neural networks and their use in optimization? While for me that is a thing of mere interest/couriosity, for my thesis adviser they actually might be of real professional interest...

Thank You for Your answers already in advance!

Sincerely,
Bernhard

In the name of Allah, the most merciful and gracious. Peace upon prophet Mohamed and all prophets


Dear Bernhard,

Regarding
the artificial neural networks and their use in optimization : these presentations might be useful: they are in English.
forAllah_edu_print.7z (2.3 MB)http://www.multiupload.com/6Q3EFJP0AH

Best wishes and my deepest regards,
Abouelseoud

Thouelfaqar August 29, 2011 08:22

reliability and risk analysis
 
In the name of Allah, the most merciful and gracious. Peace upon prophet Mohamed and all prophets


Dear colleagues,
Attached are a set of educational videos related to a very important topic : incorporating uncertainty in engineering design (reliability and risk analysis). The videos illustrate how the following opensource tools can be used to achieve this goal:

openTurns (www.openturns.org), Scilab (www.scilab.org),code_aster under Salome-Meca 2011.1 (http://www.code-aster.org/V2/spip.php?article303), under Caelinux operating system (www.caelinux.org) OR Ubuntu operating system (www.ubuntu.com)

You will find that I upload each video to 2 different sites (multiupload & mlf.net). Since mlf.net only accepts small size files, I zipped each of them as a multivolume archive. To extract such an archive download all its parts to the same folder and then remove the .zip extension from their names so that the last part of the name is the number. By double clicking the first part of an archive then it will be extracted, God's willing.

Later on, God's willing, we will show how we can link openTurns to CFD software like openFoam

Here are the links:
openturns forAllah_edu_OT.7z (241.13 MB) http://www.multiupload.com/PIOSLDOCN1
http://www.mlfnt.com/do.php?id=575887
http://www.mlfnt.com/do.php?id=576099
http://www.mlfnt.com/do.php?id=576326

forAllah_edu_OT_2.7z (41.59 MB) http://www.multiupload.com/OFCAX3YEAZ
http://www.mlfnt.com/do.php?id=586739


forAllah_openturns_aster_a.7z (83.11 MB) http://www.multiupload.com/RW11NTMKPB
http://www.mlfnt.com/do.php?id=592792
forAllah_openturns_aster_b.7z (118.61 MB) http://www.multiupload.com/ZI1T4KBCH7
http://www.mlfnt.com/do.php?id=593355
http://www.mlfnt.com/do.php?id=593378
forAllah_openturns_aster_c.7z (132.82 MB) http://www.multiupload.com/QZU0YW1S12
http://www.mlfnt.com/do.php?id=593409
http://www.mlfnt.com/do.php?id=593510


openturns_scilab_optimization
forAllah_optimization_openturns_scilab.7z (421.26 MB) http://www.multiupload.com/7UMLILWTIO

http://www.mlfnt.com/do.php?id=610610
http://www.mlfnt.com/do.php?id=611232
http://www.mlfnt.com/do.php?id=612004
http://www.mlfnt.com/do.php?id=612143
http://www.mlfnt.com/do.php?id=612187

God bless you all.

Note: I browse the Internet with out loading pictures(edit-->preference option-->content--> load images automatically is unchecked) and with flashblock (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...on/flashblock/), so I would not notice if any of the uploading sites is not respectful enough. Although , I upload to these sites because they are recommended as decent still if any one noticed that any of the sites I upload to contain indecent content, please tell me so that I would look for more respectful sites.

REMINDER:THIS VIDEO IS ONE OF A SERIES OF EDUCATIONAL VIDEOS THAT GOD HELPED US TO PREPARE: TO WATCH ANY OF THEM YOU NEED AT LEAST TO HAVE WATCHED THE FIRST ONE TO KNOW A BIT ABOUT CAELINUX OPERATING SYSTEM THAT WE ARE USING (REFER TO)

http://www.arab-eng.org/vb/t256017.html
http://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/ope...-openfoam.html
http://www.boatdesign.net/forums/edu...ign-37407.html

thejaraju September 15, 2011 23:50

Procedure for installing Discretizer in Openfoam2.0.1
 
Dear friend,



as of i am working on the GUI part of the openfoam so i request you to send the procedure for installing Discretizer in Openfoam2.0.1


thanking you in advance

Islam ElQatary October 1, 2011 10:23

wind turbine mesh
 
Hi
I hope u feel well
I'm trying to generate mesh for open foam and I've tried salome meca, netgen, and gmsh all of these software faild because I import 3D model from solid works (step extension) but when I generate mesh there is always a surface which has a singular matrix and mesh generation will be failed so can anyone help me in this issue
Thanks

Thouelfaqar October 2, 2011 14:33

Quote:

Originally Posted by Islam ElQatary (Post 326348)
Hi
I hope u feel well
I'm trying to generate mesh for open foam and I've tried salome meca, netgen, and gmsh all of these software faild because I import 3D model from solid works (step extension) but when I generate mesh there is always a surface which has a singular matrix and mesh generation will be failed so can anyone help me in this issue
Thanks

In the name of Allah, the most merciful and gracious. Peace upon prophet Mohamed and all prophets


Dear colleague,
I would recommend that u export your geometry as stl file and use snappyHexMesh. I really feel that when we use other software than built openfoam utilities for mesh generation , we really waste too much time and effort over meaningless bugs: we just waste our time and effort and even if we get around the bugs we find we learn nothing and gain no experience when we correct them because they are just bugs: we spend long times trying to make things work while there is really no problem with our understanding of the underlying concepts. This was the case for us with our work, so please try these:

http://www.hydroniumion.de/allgemein...mesh-tutorial/
http://www.hydroniumion.de/studium/s...torial-part-2/
http://www.openfoam.com/docs/user/snappyHexMesh.php
http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/Ma...Examples/2DsHM
(this last is related to tutorial
http://repo.or.cz/w/OpenFOAM-1.6.x.g...3085795470.zip)

Islam ElQatary October 2, 2011 14:42

Thank u for ur advise I'll try ur way

Thouelfaqar October 13, 2011 14:42

reliability and risk analysis-continued
 
In the name of Allah, the most merciful and gracious. Peace upon prophet Mohamed and all prophets


Dear colleagues,
attached is a video showing how to link openTurns to code_aster and scilab without wrappers. This should be easier.

forAllah_sciwrap.7z (50.88 MB) http://www.multiupload.com/43MCAQFIYY
http://www.filesharesite.com/files/2...ciwrap.7z.html

forAllah_aster_openturns_no_wrapper_direct.7z (197.53 MB) http://www.multiupload.com/JOKI703O8U
http://www.filesharesite.com/files/2...direct.7z.html


Note: I browse the Internet with out loading pictures(edit-->preference option-->content--> load images automatically is unchecked) and with flashblock (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...on/flashblock/), so I would not notice if any of the uploading sites is not respectful enough. Although , I upload to these sites because they are recommended as decent still if any one noticed that any of the sites I upload to contain indecent content, please tell me so that I would look for more respectful sites.

REMINDER:THIS VIDEO IS ONE OF A SERIES OF EDUCATIONAL VIDEOS THAT GOD HELPED US TO PREPARE: TO WATCH ANY OF THEM YOU NEED AT LEAST TO HAVE WATCHED THE FIRST ONE TO KNOW A BIT ABOUT CAELINUX OPERATING SYSTEM THAT WE ARE USING (REFER TO)

http://www.arab-eng.org/vb/t256017.html
http://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/ope...-openfoam.html
http://www.boatdesign.net/forums/edu...ign-37407.html

Islam ElQatary November 2, 2011 20:36

i need a help
 
hi
i'm new in openfoam and i've to simulate HAWT so i used MRFSimpleFoam to solve the problem the set up of the boundary conditions as following

External
{
type ggi;
nFaces 4285;
startFace 1203036;
shadowPatch Interior;
bridgeOverlap false;
zone External_ZONE;
}
Turbine
{
type wall;
nFaces 1260;
startFace 1207321;
}
Outlet
{
type patch;
nFaces 100;
startFace 1208581;
}
Bound1
{
type patch;
nFaces 100;
startFace 1208681;
}
Bound2
{
type patch;
nFaces 100;
startFace 1208781;
}
Inlet
{
type patch;
nFaces 100;
startFace 1208881;
}
Ground
{
type patch;
nFaces 100;
startFace 1208981;
}
Sky
{
type patch;
nFaces 100;
startFace 1209081;
}
Interior
{
type ggi;
nFaces 600;
startFace 1209181;
shadowPatch External;
bridgeOverlap false;
zone Interior_ZONE;
}
)

and i'm using OF16ext
i always get this error can anyone help me


--> FOAM FATAL ERROR:
Face zone name Interior_ZONE not found. Please check your GGI interface definition.

From function label ggiPolyPatch::zoneIndex() const
in file meshes/polyMesh/polyPatches/constraint/ggi/ggiPolyPatch.C at line 639.

FOAM aborting

Aborted

i used snappyHex to mesh the 2 region and then used mergMeshes to combine the 2 cases into 1 case
can anyone help me

zigzag.a321 April 26, 2013 13:23

dead links

can any one update links please

thanks in advance


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