CMB Wind Tunnel

To help new users become familiar with Kitware’s Computational Model Builder (CMB) platform, we put together this short tutorial using a customized version of the CMB modelbuilder application. This tutorial will construct and carry out basic computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations with the popular OpenFOAM simulation code. Instructions are provided for downloading the CMB modelbuilder software and walking through example problems simulating wind tunnel physics. We have purposely kept the examples simple in order to focus on the features and benefits that CMB provides for these kinds of workflows as well as not requiring the reader to have in depth knowledge of OpenFOAM. We have also taken some shortcuts to save compute cycles.

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More information about CMB is available at http://computationalmodelbuilder.org

After completing these examples, you are welcome to experiment with various options in the user interface or try your own model files (.obj, .stl, or .stlb). We also added a How It All Works section to briefly describe how we are able to deploy CMB across many diverse simulation codes without writing new software from the ground up each time. The CMB platform is not specifically designed for OpenFOAM or focused on CFD problems alone. Because of its designed-in flexibility, CMB is ideal and cost efficient for a wide range of simulation codes and workflows. So if you are interested in using CMB and modelbuilder for your simulation workflows, please get in touch with us at https://www.kitware.com/contact/general/.

• Background
• Installing the software
• Example: Wing Section
• Example: Ahmed Body
• How It All Works