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Welcome to the calculix-adapter wiki!

The wiki describes how to build the preCICE adapter for CalculiX and how to use it for fluid-structure interaction (FSI) and conjugate heat transfer (CHT) simulations. The adapter was initially developed for CHT simulations by Lucia Cheung in the scope of her master’s thesis [1] in cooperation with SimScale. For running the adapter for CHT simulations refer to this thesis. The adapter was extended to fluid-structure interaction by Alexander Rusch [2].

Start here

1. Get CalculiX and the dependencies
2. Build the Adapter
3. Configure and run simulations
4. Follow a tutorial:
   • Tutorial for CHT with OpenFOAM and CalculiX: Flow in a shell-and-tube heat exchanger
   • Tutorial for FSI with OpenFOAM and CalculiX: Flow in a channel with an elastic flap, either perpendicular, or parallel to the flow and attached to a cylinder.
   • Tutorial on structure-structure coupling: Elastic beam artificially cut into two halves

Are you encountering an unexpected error? Have a look at our Troubleshooting page.

Do you Want to build on a cluster? Look at our instructions for SuperMUC (outdated).

References

[1] Lucia Cheung Yau. Conjugate heat transfer with the multiphysics coupling library precice. Master’s thesis, Department of Informatics, Technical University of Munich, 2016.

[2] Benjamin Uekermann, Hans-Joachim Bungartz, Lucia Cheung Yau, Gerasimos Chourdakis and Alexander Rusch. Official preCICE Adapters for Standard Open-Source Solvers. In Proceedings of the 7th GACM Colloquium on Computational Mechanics for Young Scientists from Academia, 2017.