[scilab-Users] CFD through Scilab

[Charlie Warner]

Salome-MECA is now provided integrated with Code Aster FEA solver and can be coupled to Code_Saturne CFD solver, which, in turn, can be coupled to syrthes thermal analysis for combined flow/temperature studies.  The easiest implementation of this, by far, is the CAELinux distribution, built on Ubuntu 10.04, 64-bit required, although earlier, 32-bit versions (with more limited capabilities) are still available.  One can run this in a dual-boot environment without interfering with your Windows installation, or possibly in a virtual machine such as VirtualBox (I run dual boot, and older Windows in a VirtualBox installation under Linux with no problems).

If you build Salome from source rather than the CAELinux package, you may have to go through some acrobatics to get all of the integrations working properly.  Salome can be found here.  There are Windows binaries available, but they are still in the beta stage.

There is a reason why people prefer *nux for scientific applications, and it has very little to do with the cost of software (although cost can be critical to some- the CAELinux package, for free, compares quite favorably to the capabilities of the COMSOL commercial package, which can set you back $15,000 or more).  But, COMSOL runs on Windows...

Charlie

Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 13:46:35 +0530
From: sam at cctech.co.in
To: users at lists.scilab.org
Subject: Re: [scilab-Users] CFD through Scilab

Hi,

Thank you Antoine for your answer. As far as I can understand, Salome is only for CAD generation and data visualization but not for numerically solving the governing equations for flow and stresses, isn't it? I am unsure then how Salome would fit.


Regards,


On 2 February 2011 13:41, Antoine Monmayrant <antoine.monmayrant at laas.fr> wrote:



  
    
  
  

    Did you check SALOME?

    http://www.salome-platform.org/

    I tried it few years ago and from what I understood it could fit
    your needs...

    

    Antoine

    

  



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