Benchmarks

The developments of the exaFOAM project are showcased by Grand Challenges and Industrial Applications. These cases are designed to push available HPC systems to their limits and showcase the performance gains achieved over the duration of the project. For the continuous assessment of the software components during software development, microbenchmarks have been derived from the Grand Challenges and Industrial Applications.

At least one microbenchmark has been derived from each application, which captured and highlighted their computational bottlenecks at lower computational cost.

You find the list of the available test cases and the links for the source codes in the tables below.

For some of the benchmarks grid and restart files are available in the DaRUS data repository of the University of Stuttgart.

Grand Challenges

Case Study

Microbenchmark

GC1 – High-lift Common Research Model
Solver rhoPimpleFoam – 3D compressible flow, WMLES turbulence modeling

MB9 – High-lift airfoil
Solver rhoPimpleFoam – 2D compressible flow, DDES turbulence modeling

GC2 – DLR CJH
Solver XiFoam – turbulent combustion, LES turbulence modeling

MB11 – Pitz&Daily Combustor
Solver XiFoam – turbulent combustion, LES turbulence modeling

Industrial Applications

Case Study

Microbenchmark

B1 – FLOX® Gas Turbine
Solver reactingFoam – turbulent combustion with detailed chemistry and LES turbulence modeling

MB3 – Laminar Diffusion Counter-Flow Flame
Solver reactingFoam – laminar combustion with detailed chemistry

MB4 – DLR-JHC burner
Solver reactingFoam – turbulent combustion with detailed chemistry and LES turbulence modeling

B2 – TME Car
Solver adjointOptimisationFoam – unsteady adjoint optimization, external flow, DDES turbulence modeling

MB6 – Two cylinders in line
Solver adjointOptimisationFoam – unsteady adjoint optimization, 2D laminar flow

B4 – Complex Profile Extrusion
Solver viscoelasticFluidFoam (customized) – 3D laminar, viscoelastic flow

MB7 – Viscoelastic Lid-driven Cavity
Solver viscoelasticFluidFoam – 2D laminar, viscoelastic flow

MB19 – Profile Extrusion
Solver viscoelasticFluidFoam (customized) – 3D laminar, viscoelastic flow

B5 – DrivAer-rot
Solver pimpleFoam – incompressible, external flow with rotating wheels using ACMI, DDES turbulence modeling

MB8 – Rotating Wheel
Solver pimpleFoam – incompressible, external flow with rotating wheels using ACMI, DDES turbulence modeling

B6 – Offshore Wind Park
Solver pimpleFoam – incompressible flow, wind turbines using actuator line model, LES turbulence modeling with synthetic turbulence inlet condition turbulentDigitalFilterInlet

MB12 – Model Wind Farm
Solver pimpleFoam – incompressible flow, wind turbines using actuator disc model, LES turbulence modeling with synthetic turbulence inlet condition turbulentDigitalFilterInlet