2nd exaFOAM Workshop

We are excited to announce the second workshop on the exaFOAM project, which is aimed at pushing the boundaries of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) technology using OpenFOAM. Our project partners will share their expertise and best practices in sessions that cover the topics HPC Grand Challenge, Code Improvements, Profiling and Applications.
The project involves the development and validation of a range of algorithmic improvements across the entire CFD process chain, including preprocessing, simulation, I/O, and post-processing. The effectiveness of these improvements will be demonstrated through a suite of HPC Grand Challenges and Industrial Application cases, where engineering design through CFD has contributed significantly to industrial competitiveness and sustainability across various sectors such as transportation, power generation, and disaster prevention, among others.
We invite researchers, practitioners, and students from academia, industry and government organizations to attend this workshop to learn more about the exaFOAM project and its innovative approach to CFD. Participants will also have the opportunity to engage in discussions with experts in the field.
When
March 22th, 2024 – from 9:00 CET to 17:00 CET
Venue
The workshop will be held virtually.
Registration
To register fill this registration form.
Agenda
(The slides and recorded videos can be obtained in this webpage)
March 22th, 2024 – from 9:00 CET to 17:00 CET
The workshop will host four blocks of presentations with the topics HPC Grand Challenge, Code Improvements, Profiling and Applications.
9:00 – 9:15 Welcome and Introduction
9:15 – 9:45 Perspectives on HPC for CFD and Challenges in a Fast Changing Landscape, Fred Mendonca, ESI
9:45 – 10:15 HPC Scalability as an Enabling Technology for High-fidelity CFD, Charles Mockett, Upstream CFD
10:15 – 10:45 Dynamic Load Balancing of the Combustor Grand Challenge, Henrik Rusche and Sergey Lesnik, Wikki GmbH
10:45 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 11:30 Coherent Mesh Representation for Parallel I/O, Gregor Weiß, HLRS
11:30 – 12:00 Porting OpenFOAM to GPUs, Simone Bnà, CINECA
12:00 – 12:30 Parallel Linear Algorithms for Block-coupled Matrices, Tessa Uroic, FSB
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch break
13:30 – 14:00 OpenFOAM Performance Analysis, Josep Pocurull Serra, BSC
14:00 – 14:30 Instrumentation and Profiling of OpenFOAM, Sebastian Kreutzer, TU Darmstadt
14:30 – 15:00 Evaluation of OpenFOAM Selected Microbenchmarks Performance on Different Architectures, Elisabetta Boella, E4
15:00 – 15:15 Coffee break
15:15 – 15:45 Unsteady CFD-based Shape Optimization in Aerodynamics Using the Adjoint Method, Assisted by Compression Techniques, Andreas Margetis, NTUA
15:45 – 16:15 Hybrid CPU-GPU Solvers to Accelerate Reactive CFD Simulations, F. Ghioldi, PoliMi
16:15 – 16:45 Assessing Coupled Approaches to Solve the Flow of Viscoelastic Fluids, Gabriel Marcos Magalhães, University of Minho