Re: Please check whether your package is mentioned in tasks files (Was: RFS: FreeFOAM)
Hi Andreas, Dmitrijs Ledkovs
FreeFOAM will perfectly fit in the physics task. It also might a good
idea to put freefoam-dev in the physics-dev task, as, once freefoam is
installed on the computer, it is very easy to develop new libraries and
solvers for CFD using the CMake modules provided by freefoam.
Though OpenFOAM is in the physics task, I think this software will never
enter into Debian. Its configuration system is a mix of shell and WMake
scripts, which often have to be manipulated manually, does not install
in the standard (/usr/bin, /usr/lib etc) directories, for compilation
and executing OpenFOAM, many environmental settings are needed (provided
in a bash.rc) in order to get it work properly. These were the reasons
freefoam was created. Other differences are that shell scripts are
substituted by Python scripts. This mainly affects testing of the
tutorials. Apart from one module, which has to be removed because of
non-free files, its functioning is identic to OpenFOAM. Therefore, I
think that freefoam will substitute openfoam in the physics task.
In addition, in the past OpenFOAM provided a UserGuide.pdf under the
GPL-2 licence. Though OpenCFD (developer of OpenFOAM) never issued the
source of this pdf document (it was written in Latex). Therefore, the
UserGuide for freefoam had to be re-written (using asciidoc) in order to
adapt it for freefoam. In addition, the UserGuide.pdf provided by
OpenCFD is now issued under the Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
I think, the freefoam package will fit in:
- Chemistry: used for chemical engineering: mixing, reactive flows
- Engineering: (petro)chemical flows, heat transfer, aero-and
hydrodynamics (avionics, ships)
- Meteorology(-dev): for example, it is (going to be) used for studies
on energy turbine / windmill parks at sea and the effects on the
Atmospheric Boundary Layer
- Physics: used for studies on turbulence, boundary layers etc.
- Simulations
I filed a RFS: FreeFOAM bug against the sponsorship-requests package.
Its bug number is: #676620
Gerber
On Fri, 2012-06-08 at 11:10 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi Gerber,
>
> when looking at the tasks page for physics[1] I can find an openfoam
> project but freefoam is not mentioned. Is it correct to mention
> freefoam in the physics task as well and do you see other tasks this
> package might fit. Do you think that creating a physics-dev task and
> adding libfreefoam-dev (as well as other development packages relevant
> for developing physical applications) might make sense?
>
> It might also help if you could clarify the connection to OpenFoam to
> express this better on the tasks page.
>
> BTW, it would be really cool if *any* developer of a scientific
> application would check *now* whether its package is mentioned in the
> Debian Science tasks. It would be too bad if we would release with
> incomplete metapackages.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Andreas.
>
> [1] http://blends.alioth.debian.org/science/tasks/physics
>
> On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 10:53:54AM +0200, Gerber van der Graaf wrote:
> > Dear Mentors and Debian-Science list,
> > I am looking for a sponsor of the FreeFOAM software for Computational
> > FLuid Dynamics (CFD) which uses the Control / Finite Volume Method.
> > Currently, Debian does not include packages of this type. FreeFOAM is a
> > fork of OpenFOAM, of which the configuration has been modernized by
> > using CMake and several other improvements have been implemented.
> > OpenFOAM / FreeFOAM is one of the most popular and highest quality CFD
> > software that currently exists. Several User Groups, organized by
> > universities and (research) industries, at different countries meet each
> > other on a regular basis. Next week (12 June) there will be a meeting of
> > the Dutch OpenFOAM Users Group ( http://www.dutchopenfoamusers.nl/ ),
> > where I will give an explanation about the FreeFOAM project. It would be
> > great if I can tell that FreeFOAM is entering, or even better: has been
> > accepted, in Debian. :)
> >
> > The web page of FreeFOAM is at:
> > http://freefoam.sourceforge.net/
> >
> > The packages can be found at:
> > http://mentors.debian.net/package/freefoam
> >
> > The respective dsc file can be found at:
> > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/f/freefoam/freefoam_0.1.0
> > +dfsg-1.dsc
> >
> > Also, there is a git repo at debian/science:
> > http://git.debian.org/?p=debian-science/packages/freefoam.git
> >
> >
> > I am grateful to the people on this list for their comments and remarks
> > concerning the development the packages:
> > Michael Wild (upstream developer)
> > Anton Gladky
> > Sylvestre Ledru
> >
> > Sincerely, Gerber van der Graaf
> >
> >
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