COOLFluiD 2011.4 Features

This release is based on code revision r12700.

!! New on this release !!

  • improved algorithms for viscous fluxes in Finite Volume solver
  • ICP code is fully compatible to last fully working version
  • some cleanup and optimizations in the unsteady FluctSplit solver
  • included module for radiation transport (Optically thin method, Tangent Slab, Monte Carlo based on an innovative ray tracing algorithm)
  • included flow-radiation coupling
  • included interface to ESA PARADE library

Features

Kernel

  • Component based architecture
  • Dynamic loading of external plugins
  • Interpolation and integration on arbitrary elements
  • Transparent MPI parallelization
  • Parallel writing and reading from solution files
  • Support for XML case files
  • Multiplatform ( Linux, MacOSX, Win32/64)
  • Basic client GUI with connection to remote simulation server

Mesh

Numerical Methods

Physical Modules

  • Compressible Euler and NavierStokes Equations
    • Perfect and Real Gas
    • Chemical reacting mixtures
  • Incompressible NavierStokes
  • Linearized Euler (for Aeroacoustics)
  • Ideal Magnetohydrodynamics
  • Structural Elasticity
  • Multi-ion Electrochemistry
  • Heat transfer
  • Multiple Scalar Advection models