Software and Conferences
I have worked on and presented my works on a few software during my bachelor's and for my current research, information on it is given below!
OpenFOAM
Computational Fluid Dynamics Tool based on Finite Volume Method.
OpenFOAM is a free open-source CFD software having plenty of different applications and solvers not limited to - electromagnetic, aero-elastic, compressible, incompressible, etc. Although the learning curve is steep, the fact that you can manipulate the source code and fiddle around makes it all worthwhile. I started with working on (and still inclined towards) compressible flows- shocks, shock reflection, and other fascinating aspects of gas dynamics. Look here for the codes that I worked on for a case study at FOSSEE, IIT-Bombay. I used Paraview for post-processing. I eventually moved towards incompressible flows for my bachelor's project in the field of aero-elasticity. I tried to understand the differences in algorithms between OpenFOAM and SU2, leading to presenting and a conference proceeding in the 15th OpenFOAM Workshop, you can read the paper here.
SU2
A collection of C++ based CFD tools
SU2 is an open-source collection of C++-based software tools for performing Partial Differential Equation analysis and solving constrained optimization problems. The toolset was designed initially to solve aerodynamic shape optimization but has several other features making its application wide-ranged such as for solving potential flow, elasticity, electrodynamics, chemically-reacting flows, etc. We tried to understand the structural aspect of it while considering the test case as a symmetric airfoil pitching at low frequencies, we delineated the differences in the first SU2 conference, you can read the presentation here.
ENZO and FLASH
Software for Cosmological Magnetohydrodynamics.
I worked on these tools to simulate and analyze the evolution of large-scale and small-scale magnetic fields in the universe. I also used the VisIt tool for post-processing in FLASH and used the Yt-project when I worked on ENZO, you can check out some of the codes I played around with here. I then had to diverge quite a bit to work on something more analytical.