A Distributed Mesh Generation Study Case through a Customizable Platform as a Service Framework

Conferencia presentada en 11th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - SIMULTECH 2021The quality of a mesh can determine the accuracy of a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulation. In fact, meshing is not only a user highly time-consuming endeavor but also demands a lot of computational power. The need for powerful and useful tools for meshing can have a real impact on productivity and the final result. In this paper, a customizable platform as a service for meshing, named Evoker, is presented and evaluated to assist users to work over different types of geometries and accelerate the generation of meshes. Evoker is a zero-installation tool with a web Graphical User Interface (Web-GUI), which cloud-server runs OpenFOAM in order to provide a friendly interface to its meshing utilities. Evoker also manages cloud computing resources to distribute the mesh generation among different processors. Through the presented use case, Evoker demonstrates to be a versatile meshing solution that can help to save a lot of time for their users