I'm very enthusiastic to use programming languages in Architecture simulation modeling. I have already learned C# and python but I don't know where to go from here? Besides that, I wouldn't like to waste a lot of time. Is there a concise advice to guide my steps? Tutorials, courses, books, advice, anything?
Thanks a lot
You will probably find the course of Prof. Lorena A. Barba on CFD Python: 12 steps to Navier-Stokes. You will learn how to code the basic equations of fluid mechanics (Laplace, Poisson and Euler equations). Examples of realistic flows are presented at the end (cavity and channel flows). Good luck!
http://lorenabarba.com/blog/cfd-python-12-steps-to-navier-stokes/
Hello,
basicaly, there are two choises. First, start from scratch, thus develop your own CFD code (in python of course). That way is a long and time waste. On the other hand, you can use planty of softwares, which use the python as main scripting language. Even a several open source codes has a wrapper to python (i mean, you can simply use architecture of given code - for example OpenFoam / pyFoam ).
I would strongly advice against using Python to do the actual calculations. CFD is computationally intensive (both in terms of processor speed and memory use) and Python codes quickly become too slow. You can use python as a shell around an existing C or Fortran based code to make it easier to use. Python can also be very useful for visualisation.
I agree with the above posters and suggest taking a look at FEniCS.
http://fenicsproject.org
You will probably find the course of Prof. Lorena A. Barba on CFD Python: 12 steps to Navier-Stokes. You will learn how to code the basic equations of fluid mechanics (Laplace, Poisson and Euler equations). Examples of realistic flows are presented at the end (cavity and channel flows). Good luck!
http://lorenabarba.com/blog/cfd-python-12-steps-to-navier-stokes/
I also agree with Moussa Ider. The lectures of Lorena Barba are amazing. However, Python needs good programming practices otherwise it becomes slowly so quickly. Fortran may be a good choice for designing your own CFD code, however this is very time consuming and complex for big projects such as for calculations in 3D.
I agree with Hasan Celik. Designing your own CFD code is usually not a good idea, unless you see it as a long term investment that will be developed over many years, or you want a specialized code that is optimised for one particular problem. There are plenty of CFD codes available (both free and commercial) and it would be much more efficient to check whether any of those is suitable.
Thanks a lot for your very valuable comments . this course of Prof. Lorena A. Barba looks great .. thanks a lot
I would strongly recommend you to read the Scientific Python (SciPy) tutorials to grasp the idea of scientific/engineering computing. Not long ago, Python was thought to be a relatively slow language for scientific computing, but it is improving and there are specific techniques to speed it up to (I think) somewhere near the computing speed of Java.
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