OpenFOAM – cloud HPC

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Running CFD analysis with OpenFOAM is often a long process which requires huge hardware resources. The Cloud HPC service provided by CFD FEA SERVICE SRL is the perfect service to satisfy your hardware requirements.

OpenFOAM is an opensource software originally developped in England. It is a CFD solver which allows to run complex analysis with multiple flow features: incompressible, compressible, turbulent, transient, steady, heat transfer, CHT – Conjugate heat transfer, porosity, turbomachinery, etc.

The two main branches currently installed on the cloud HPC system are developped respectively by:

  • The OpenFOAM foundation (openfoam.org). The versions released in this branch are enumerated with progressive number (i.e. v6, v7, v8, v9)
  • ESI Group and OpenCFD (openfoam.com). The versions released in this branch are enumerated with year/month of the release (i.e. v1912, v2006, v2012, v2106, v2112)

Thanks to the cloud HPC service it is possible to run your OpenFOAM analysis using cloud hardware resource and taking advantage of huge computing power. Once you have generated your case files, you can upload them on the cloud and run your analysis.

Advantages

Using cloud computing in order to run OpenFOAM analysis gives great advantages with respect to standard machine. In particular:

✅ Possibility to allocate any number of resource

✅ Introduce complex modelling into the simulation such transient solvers and CHT – Conjugate heat transfer

✅ Take advantage of a system maintained by IT experts – you can just focus on your CFD setting

✅ Parallelize the analysis – run multiple CFD scenarios at the same time in order to decide the best smoke evacuation system for your case

Thanks to these advantages it’s possible to increase the sevice level you offer to your clients and be more confident of the results you provide.

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OpenFOAM simulation running on cloud HPC system

Features

In CFD FEA SERVICE cloud HPC system it is possible to run your OpenFOAM with the following feature:

✅ Use a fully scalable MPI environment

✅ Pick your customized instance

✅ Monitor your simulation in runtime – any activated file in postProcessing folder is automatically converted into a graph in runtime

✅ Stop your simulation at any point of the calculation

✅ Take advantage of API system to automate your tasks

✅ Execute analysis form your Ubuntu TERMINAL using the provided API based script

✅ Pay just for what you have used

✅ OpenFOAM is ready to run on PRE instance to maximize saving

✅ Post-process results using secure remote desktop connection to a dedicated instance with paraview/parafoam

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Turbomachinery example performed in OpenFOAM using Cloud HPC