SOLVCON – SOLVer CONstructor

SOLVCON is a Python-based toolkit for solving conservation laws formulated as a coupled system of partial differential equations (PDEs):

(1)

where is the unknown vector, , , and the Jacobian matrices, and the source term. SOLVCON employs the space-time Conservation Element and Solution Element (CESE) method, which is developed to solve non-linear problems, e.g., shock capturing. The CESE method is also suitable for multi-physics problems for it solves the general mathematical form of the conservation laws, as shown in Eq. (1). Solvers of gas dynamics and stress waves are implemented. Results can be found in Published Applications of SOLVCON.

To start using SOLVCON, two documents are helpful: Installation and Tutorial. The Resources section contains more information.

The software is released under GNU GPLv2. Comments, contribution, and collaboration are welcomed. You can reach us at http://groups.google.com/group/solvcon or contact us by sending a private email to contact@solvcon.net.

Documentation

• Installation
  • Prerequisites
  • Download
  • Build
  • Install to Your System (Optional)
  • Unit Test
  • Manually Build Prerequisites (Optional)
• Tutorial
  • Set up the Environment
  • Configuration
  • Mesh Generation (to Be Added)
  • Driving Scripts (to Be Corrected)
  • The Hook System (to Be Corrected)
  • Change Physical Model (to Be Corrected)
  • Output Control (to Be Corrected)
• Architecture
  • Unstructured Meshes
  • Numerical Code
  • Code Listings
  • References
• System Modules
• Contribution
  • Set up Jenkins Slave
  • File Listings
• Release History
  • Upcoming
  • 0.1.1
  • 0.1
  • 0.0.7
  • 0.0.6
  • 0.0.4
  • 0.0.3
  • 0.0.2
  • 0.0.1

Resources

• Download: https://bitbucket.org/solvcon/solvcon/downloads
• Papers and presentations:
  • PyCon US 2011 talk: slides and video
  • Yung-Yu Chen, David Bilyeu, Lixiang Yang, and Sheng-Tao John Yu, “SOLVCON: A Python-Based CFD Software Framework for Hybrid Parallelization”, 49th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, January 4-7 2011, Orlando, Florida. AIAA Paper 2011-1065
• Code development and support:
  • Documentation: http://solvcon.readthedoc.org/.
  • API documents generated by using Epydoc: nightly, 0.1.1, 0.1, 0.0.7, 0.0.6, 0.0.4, 0.0.3, 0.0.2, 0.0.1
  • Bitbucket repository (hg): https://bitbucket.org/solvcon/solvcon/src
  • Issue tracker (bug reports here): https://bitbucket.org/solvcon/solvcon/issues?status=new&status=open
  • Buildbot: http://solvcon.net/buildbot
  • Mailing list (Google group): http://groups.google.com/group/solvcon
  • IRC channel: #solvcon on freenode
• The CESE method:
  • The CE/SE working group: http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/microbus/
  • The CESE research group at OSU: http://cfd.solvcon.net/research.html
  • Selected papers:
    • Sin-Chung Chang, “The Method of Space-Time Conservation Element and Solution Element – A New Approach for Solving the Navier-Stokes and Euler Equations”, Journal of Computational Physics, Volume 119, Issue 2, July 1995, Pages 295-324. doi: 10.1006/jcph.1995.1137
    • Xiao-Yen Wang, Sin-Chung Chang, “A 2D Non-Splitting Unstructured Triangular Mesh Euler Solver Based on the Space-Time Conservation Element and Solution Element Method”, Computational Fluid Dynamics Journal, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 309-325.
    • Zeng-Chan Zhang, S. T. John Yu, Sin-Chung Chang, “A Space-Time Conservation Element and Solution Element Method for Solving the Two- and Three-Dimensional Unsteady Euler Equations Using Quadrilateral and Hexahedral Meshes”, Journal of Computational Physics, Volume 175, Issue 1, Jan. 2002, Pages 168-199. doi: 10.1006/jcph.2001.6934
• Other:
  • Published Applications of SOLVCON
  • Related Links
  • Other Software for Solving PDEs

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page