Where: Bldg 12, University Library,
Description
Take a look into the world of open-source software for computational engineering. Computer simulations have become powerful predictive tools for many engineering problems where experimental and design processes are prohibitively expensive. Among the variety of solutions available on the market, a new modeling strategy based of free and open-source codes is becoming popular, not only for research purposes, but also for industrial applications. This workshop will start with a series of talks given by the organizers, to introduce the open source philosophy and its applicability to industrial and academic use cases. Some of the most attractive and widely used free packages will be discussed. Special emphasis will be put on scientific software for mesh generation, fluid, and multi-physics simulation. Tools to visualize, animate and present 3D simulation results will be also described. The final part of the workshop will see a dynamic and interactive session designed particularly for students to work on simple problems and other KAUST researchers will be invited to show and demonstrate their own projects with open source tools. The workshop focuses on the OpenFOAM framework and on fluid flow simulations, but discusses also other software packages to perform all the steps involved in computational modeling, from CAD to visualization. Audience: Students and researchers in academia and industry but also staff, faculty and community members interested in computer simulations are potential attendees. http://youtu.be/sIgdreIKgQQ http://youtu.be/e31optJuNmY http://youtu.be/7kyWM4vpa-Y http://youtu.be/vVe3GuA6nrE
Alberto Passalacqua
Dr. Alberto Passalacqua is assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering at Iowa State University, with a courtesy appointment in Chemical and Biological Engineering. He obtained his M.S. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at Politecnico di Torino (Italy) with a scholarship from the Italian Minister of Education, University and Research. He joined Iowa State University as a post-doctoral researcher, in the department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, where he worked on the development, implementation and validation of computational models for gas-particle flows. He received the American Chemical Society – Petroleum Research Fund Doctoral New Investigator award in 2013. His research is sponsored by National Science Foundation of the United States, by the US Department of Energy, and by various industrial collaborations. He is author of 11 journal articles, 1 book chapter, 6 conference articles with peer-review, and 15 conference proceedings. Research interests include modeling of multiphase flows, turbulent flows, computational fluid dynamics, uncertainty quantification, numerical methods and open-source scientific software. http://www.me.iastate.edu/directory/faculty/alberto-passalacqua/
Matteo Icardi
Dr. Matteo Icardi is currently a postdoctoral fellow at KAUST, in the Stochastic Numerics Research group, and at UT Austin, in the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences. His main expertise is computational fluid dynamics and porous media flows. He obtained a M.S. in Mathematical Engineering and a PhD in Chemical Engineering at Politecnico di Torino (Italy) where he studied and developed efficient simulation strategies for complex multiphase turbulent flows. He also worked as consultant and developer for the different CFD companies before starting his postdoctoral research in multi-scale simulations and uncertainty quantification of groundwater and reservoir flows. http://stochastic_numerics.kaust.edu.sa/Pages/Icardi.aspx
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