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Reef3D

Reef3D#

REEF3D is an open-source hydrodynamics framework with a focus on coastal, marine and hydraulic engineering flows. Tailor-made multiphysics solvers are available for a range of relevant problems (e.g. sediment transport or floating body dynamics). The modular programming approach allows the framework to incorporate a range of different flow solvers which together represent all relevant length scales.
Depending on the wave or flow conditions, the following optimized hydrodynamic modules are available:

  • REEF3D::CFD solves the Navier-Stokes equations in three dimensions. For near-field simulations with a complex free surface pattern, it uses a two-phase flow approach with the level set method for interface capturing.

  • REEF3D::FNPF is a three-dimensional fully nonlinear potential flow solver. It is massively parallelized and can be used to create large-scale phase-resolved sea states at all water depths.

  • REEF3D::SFLOW is a depth-averaged model, solving the non-hydrostatic shallow water equations ideal for near-shore hydrodynamics and river flow.

Running a simulation#

Reef3D in Inductiva API executes two sequential steps:

  • the meshing with DiveMESH;

  • the simulation with Reef3D.

Each step is configured with input files, control.txt and ctrl.txt, respectively. Other files may be used to inform the simulator about the grid, geographical data or wave information. Reef3D has strict naming policies for each file and we recommend users to follow their guidelines.

To run the simulation users pass a folder with the above files and all others required to run the simulation. The folder is then uploaded to Inductiva API and the simulation is executed. The output files are then downloaded to the user’s machine.

The parallelization of the simulation is handled automatically by Inductiva API, based on the number of cores available in the machine.

General Arguments:

  • on: set the machines where the simulations will run. Check here for further detail. If not selected the simulations will be picked-up by a default pool shared by everyone.

  • storage_dir: set the directory where the output files will be stored in the cloud. If not selected the output files will be stored in a folder named with the task id of the simulation.

For further information on handling the task of the simulation see here.

Example#

Here, we follow the tutorial with regular wave propagation from Reef3D repository.

import inductiva

input_dir = inductiva.utils.download_from_url(
    "https://storage.googleapis.com/inductiva-api-demo-files/"
    "reef3d-input-example.zip", unzip=True
)

reef3d = inductiva.simulators.REEF3D()

task = reef3d.run(input_dir=input_dir)

task.wait()
task.download_outputs()
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