DoT researchers are involved in the development of several open source simulation software tools, including the inhouse tool ForDGe, and third party tools including MAdLib and Gmsh. DoT researchers actively collaborate with Cenaero in the development and advanced use of the solver ArgoDG in the domains of scale-resolving simulations of turbulent flows, additive manufacturing, hypersonic reentry and plasma flows.
ForDGe is the in-house Cartesian AMR (and in turn Immersed Boundary) solver, which is being developed for solving coupled physics problems on complex and moving geometries.
Initially developed during the thesis of Pr. Hillewaert, ArgoDG is the DGM simulation platform of Cenaero. DoT contributes actively to its development for and uses ArgoDG for research on turbomachinery flows, turbulence, manufacturing and plasma.
MAdLib is an open source mesh adaptation library, developed by Cenaero and the Université Catholique de Louvain. DoT researchers contribute functionality, for use in Argo and as part of the ParSec subproject of PRACE 8IP
Gmsh is an open source 3D finite element mesh generator with a built-in CAD engine and post-processor. The main interest for research in the DoT group lies in the generation of curved meshes and the visualisation of high order solutions.
