[kev4573]

What does the following bullet in the foam-3.0 release statement mean?

** Library-level support for Immersed Boundary Method and Overset Mesh

I searched through the src tree for these items, but could not locate them.

Thanks!

Kevin

[wyldckat]

Greetings Kevin,

I suspect that "Library-level support" means that it's plug-n-play ready for connecting with the paid features for IBM and foamedOver... (note: I'm assuming they're paid, because I haven't found any public repository for them yet)

You might want to ask about this directly in the announcement page: http://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/ope...end-3-0-a.html

Best regards,
Bruno

[elvis]

Hi,

I guess that "Immersed Boundary Method" should be integrated completely into new release: "foam-extend-3.0", as the first publication of Immersed Boundary Method material was at http://openfoam-extend.sourceforge.n...7_Program.html

The Dynamic Overset Grid implementation comes from http://celeritassimtech.com/
read more from their website. It is a commercial product, so I guess foam-extend-3.0 is prepared to make use of Overset, but you have to buy it (If you are qualified to buy it anyway there are some restrictions because military money made this technology)

[kev4573]

Thanks for the information! I searched around for the class types mentioned in that paper "immersedBoundary*" and did not find anything in the current foam-3.0 code. I don't think it has been integrated at all actually. I suspect "library support" means you can plug something into foam-3.0 and it can do IBM and overset.

[TomP]

As far as I understand the suggar++ library isn't ITAR controlled, the integration of this library with OpenFOAM (foamedOver) however is. As long as you are from a country that can acquire US weapons you should be able to license suggar++. foamedOver is property of the US Navy.

[egp]

This has nothing to do with foamedOver or sugar++. Wikki has developed its own organic overset capability.

[miladrakhsha]

I was trying to port the implementation of IBM method done in 1.6-ext to extend-project-3.1. I am particularly interested in simpleIbFoam. I compiled everything else I believe but the simpleIbFoam source code was not compiled. I came to the conclusion that "Library-level support for Immersed Boundary Method and Overset Mesh " means that the libraries that were used in the previous version, meaning
surfaceNormal
surfaceInvertNormal
immersedBoundary
immersedBoundaryForce
makeTriSurfaceMesh
refineImmersedBoundaryMesh
could be compiled in the new version. However, I found that those solvers are not compiled.

I would appreciate any comments

[vinz]

Is there anything new regarding the availability of overset library in foam-extend?

I've been loooking for it in the sources but I dont't find anything.

Will it be released in a future foam-extend version?

[elvis]

Hi Vincent,

my guess is that overset grid (implemented by wikki) will not be published.
But if you compare how long Immersed Boundary Method (IBM) was in wikki´s software repo and when it was released to public it gives a good comparison when they might publish overset grid in extend.

Another question what meshing software could you use if overset would be published in extend. Pointwise supports PEGASUS 5 software from NASA Ames Research Center and the Suggar++ software from Celeritas Simulation Technologies.
If wikki did not use Pegasus (and that has licensed as well to mesh in pointwise) what could be used to work with overset grid

[PonchO]

So unfortunate.