COOLFluiD
The COOLFluiD (Computational Object-Oriented Libraries for Fluid Dynamics) platform, whose development started in 2002 at the Von Karman Institute, is finally open!
COOLFluiD is a framework for building numerical solvers for multi-physics applications.
A recent presentation of the project at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing Center is available at Applied Modeling & Simulation Seminars @NASA Ames
What is POWERFUL about COOLFluiD?
- Allows you to build customized parallel PDE and particle solvers with arbitrary datastructures
- Generic API's to build numerical algorithms and to interface linear system solvers
- Physics and algorithms can be totally decoupled
- Parallel I/O capabilities (both reading and writing)
- Support for hybrid MPI/CUDA parallelization
- Can be used to interface and/or couple existing solvers
- Plug'n'play policy based on self-registering and self-configuring objects
- Multiple solvers: FEM, FVM, Spectral Finite Differences, Residual Distribution, Monte-Carlo
- Multiple models: all-speed flows, plasma, chemistry, radiation, electromagnetics, turbulence, LEE
- Applications from toy to complex industrial problems