Science Score: 67.0%
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Low similarity (14.9%) to scientific vocabulary
Repository
VirtualFluids Mirror
Basic Info
- Host: GitHub
- Owner: irmb
- License: gpl-3.0
- Language: C++
- Default Branch: main
- Homepage: https://git.rz.tu-bs.de/irmb/VirtualFluids/
- Size: 49.7 MB
Statistics
- Stars: 8
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 1
- Open Issues: 0
- Releases: 4
Metadata Files
README.md

VirtualFluids (VF) is a research code developed at the Institute for Computational Modeling in Civil Engineering (iRMB) at the Technical University Braunschweig. The code is a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) solver based on the Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM) for turbulent and multicomponent flow problems. It includes distributed pre- and postprocessing capabilities for simulations with more than 100 billion degrees of freedom.
Documentation
You can find more information about the code in the Documentation pages. The pages contain information about the installation, usage and development of VirtualFluids.
License
VirtualFluids is licensed under the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 3 or - at your choice - any later.
See the file COPYING.txt for copying permissions. For a full list of contributors see <!-- DOXYGENMAKEREF -->AUTHORS. If you notice that a contributor is missing on the list, please contact us or open a merge request to add the name.
How to cite
VirtualFluids is research software developed at research institutions.
You can cite specific releases via Zenodo: .
Get in touch
You can find our main repository, where the development takes place here. Contributions are highly welcome. Please review the <!-- DOXYGENMAKEREF -->contribution guidelines before opening issues and merge requests.
If you notice any problems on your platform, please report an issue.
We are maintaining a mailing list for users of VirtualFluids. You can subscribe to the mailing list to receive news about new releases and other important information. If you have any further questions you can contact us via email.
Owner
- Name: irmb
- Login: irmb
- Kind: organization
- Repositories: 3
- Profile: https://github.com/irmb
Citation (CITATION.cff)
# SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright © VirtualFluids Project contributors, see AUTHORS.md in root folder
cff-version: 1.2.0
message: "If you use this software, please cite it as below."
type: software
authors:
- family-names: Peters
given-names: Sören
orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5236-3776
- family-names: Kutscher
given-names: Konstantin
orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1099-1608
- family-names: Schönherr
given-names: Martin
orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4774-1776
- family-names: Geier
given-names: Martin
orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8367-9412
- family-names: Alihussein
given-names: Hussein
orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3656-7028
- family-names: Wellmann
given-names: Anna
orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8825-2995
- family-names: Korb
given-names: Henry
orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3177-5960
title: "VirtualFluids"
version: 0.1.2
license: GPL-3.0-or-later
repository-code: "https://git.rz.tu-bs.de/irmb/virtualfluids"
date-released: "2024-07-09"
GitHub Events
Total
- Watch event: 1
- Fork event: 3
Last Year
- Watch event: 1
- Fork event: 3
Dependencies
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- packaging ==20.8
- pluggy ==0.13.1
- py ==1.10.0
- pyparsing ==2.4.7
- pytest ==6.2.1
- python-dateutil ==2.8.1
- pyvista ==0.39.1
- scipy ==1.10
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- six ==1.15.0
- toml ==0.10.2
- transforms3d ==0.4.1
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