Project description
Open-source solvers for any CAD geometry
Over the past decade, IsoGeometric approaches have gained popularity in commercial solvers, making them relevant in industrial practice. However, the use of CAD technologies in ‘trimming’ has faced challenges that need to be addressed. The EU-funded GECKO project aims to solve these problems by improving current advances and integrating academic research into the industrial workflow. The project’s objective is to ensure that open-source solvers, originally developed for solid and fluid dynamics in academia, can use any CAD geometry as an input domain, even when the geometrical definition is not optimal, such as poorly defined or ‘dirty’ geometries. As a result, GECKO will develop an efficient and robust solver design that can seamlessly perform ‘Design-through-analysis’ workflows.
Objective
After more than a decade of research, IsoGeometric approaches are starting to make inroads into commercial solvers, and thus starting to be relevant in the industrial practice. Outstanding challenges still exist in the use of the underlying CAD technologies, and in particular in the use of “trimming”.
The main objective of the GECKO project is to help solving the outstanding difficulties by improving the current state of the art and by integrating academic research within the industrial workflow.
This will be achieved by ensuring that open-source solvers, developed in the academia for both solid and fluid dynamics, are able to use as an input domain any CAD geometry, even in cases in which the geometrical definition is not optimal, i.e. poorly defined or “dirty” geometries. In this regard, an efficient and robust solver design must be implemented to be capable of performing seamless “Design-through-analysis” workflows .
The goal will inherently imply collaborating with the pre/post processing industry (represented in the proposal by the company BETA-CAE), with solver vendors (DYNAMORE) and end users (IDIADA) to ensure that a smooth path is defined to allow such convergence.
The overall project outcome will be to form a new cohort of experts on the topic and to enhance the open source tools and operational workflow so that they can effectively complement commercial based approaches. This in turn will allow addressing relevant bottlenecks, as identified by the industrial partners, so that the solution can be eventually backported into commercial solutions.
Another important objective in the GECKO project is to empower and generalize the currently available solutions when dealing with complex non-linear models (Solvers) in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Computational Solid Mechanics (CSM), acoustics, vibro-acoustics, Reduced Order Models (RoM) and surface mapping.
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-DN - HORIZON TMA MSCA Doctoral Networks
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-MSCA-2021-DN-01
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08034 Barcelona
Spain
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