The CalculiX adapter can be used to couple CalculiX to CFD solvers for FSI or CHT application or even to couple CalculiX to itself.

Start here

  1. Get CalculiX and the dependencies
  2. Build the Adapter
  3. Configure and run simulations
  4. Follow a tutorial.

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

Versions

The latest supported CalculiX version is v2.20. If you already have a copy of the adapter, check the adapter README for the CalculiX version it was made for.

The adapter has a versioning scheme inherited from CalculiX: It is of the form CCX_MAJOR.CCX_MINOR.ADAPTER_PATCH. For instance, the release v2.20.0 modifies the source code of CalculiX 2.20. Further adapter releases for the same CalculiX version increase the ADAPTER_PATCH (e.g., 2.20.2), independent of whether it includes bug fixes, new features, or compatibility with a different preCICE version.

Compatibility with preCICE:

  • preCICE v3 is supported since the adapter release v2.20.1.
  • preCICE v2 was supported in the branches v2.16, v2.17, and the releases v2.19.0 and v2.20.0.
  • preCICE v1 was supported in the branches v2.10, v2.12, v2.13, and v2.15.

History

The adapter was initially developed for conjugate heat transfer (CHT) simulations via preCICE by Lucia Cheung in the scope of her master’s thesis1, 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 Rusch2. The adapter was further extended for volumetric coupling by Ibrahim Kaleel and Ishaan Desai.

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. ↩