Data-driven modeling

OpenFOAM special interest group

4th meeting

Plan for today

  • introduction
  • past/ongoing/upcoming activities
    • first hackathon
    • next hackathon
  • general discussion

Hi, my name is ...

  • about yourself
  • experience with OpenFOAM
  • experience with ML (and OF/CFD)
  • ...

We have scheduled only 1h for the meeting :)

ongoing/upcoming activities

First hackathon

github.com/OFDataCommittee/OFMLHackathon

In a nutshell:

  • July 25-27, ~20 participants
  • two projects: DRL for flow control,
    PINNs in OpenFOAM
  • platforms: gather.town and Slack

Three intense days, very good fun!

Our observations:

  • enormous engagement/motivation
  • great team work
  • good progress in very limited time
  • jury/prices not really necessary
  • good programming skills are essential
  • pcluster great resource option (AWS)
  • Gather.Town+Slack works well

Thanks to Neil for sponsoring the resources!

Summarized feedback from participants:

  • great learning experience
  • create more balanced teams upfront
  • one "junior mentor" per group
  • learning material for preparation
  • many more small tips for improvement
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Next hackathon

  • date: Nov 28-30
  • projects: PINNs, DRL (with drlfoam), Bayesian optimization (optional)
  • former participants as group mentors
  • list of resources for preparation

Suggestions? Volunteers (projects, mentoring)?

Discussion of new articles, ideas, projects, developments

Closing words

  • next meeting: Dec, Doodle follows
  • get people involved!