A Distributed Mesh Generation Study Case through a Customizable Platform as a Service Framework

Francesc Costa-Majó, Paloma Barreda, Sergio Iserte

2021

Abstract

The quality of a mesh can determine the accuracy of a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulation. In fact, meshing is not only a user highly time-consuming endeavor but also demands a lot of computational power. The need for powerful and useful tools for meshing can have a real impact on productivity and the final result. In this paper, a customizable platform as a service for meshing, named Evoker, is presented and evaluated to assist users to work over different types of geometries and accelerate the generation of meshes. Evoker is a zero-installation tool with a web Graphical User Interface (Web-GUI), which cloud-server runs OpenFOAM in order to provide a friendly interface to its meshing utilities. Evoker also manages cloud computing resources to distribute the mesh generation among different processors. Through the presented use case, Evoker demonstrates to be a versatile meshing solution that can help to save a lot of time for their users.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Costa-Majó F., Barreda P. and Iserte S. (2021). A Distributed Mesh Generation Study Case through a Customizable Platform as a Service Framework. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: SIMULTECH, ISBN 978-989-758-528-9, pages 414-421. DOI: 10.5220/0010576904140421

in Bibtex Style

@conference{simultech21,
author={Francesc Costa-Majó and Paloma Barreda and Sergio Iserte},
title={A Distributed Mesh Generation Study Case through a Customizable Platform as a Service Framework},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: SIMULTECH,},
year={2021},
pages={414-421},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010576904140421},
isbn={978-989-758-528-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: SIMULTECH,
TI - A Distributed Mesh Generation Study Case through a Customizable Platform as a Service Framework
SN - 978-989-758-528-9
AU - Costa-Majó F.
AU - Barreda P.
AU - Iserte S.
PY - 2021
SP - 414
EP - 421
DO - 10.5220/0010576904140421