Under the aegis of Ministry of Education, Govt. of India
Feedback form for OpenFOAM Workshop
Dear Participant,
We thank you for attending the 3 Day workshop on Basics of Computational Fluid Dynamics using OpenFOAM from 25-27 February 2021. We would like to have your valuable feedback about the Workshop and learning experience as it will help us enhance the quality of our work. Kindly select the best option that describes your views. You can also provide your comments in the spaces provided in the form. Your response will be kept confidential.
Thank you for your time!
Total number of responses : 78
1. Your age
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2A. You are a
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2B. If your answer to the above question is OTHER, then please specify:
Student of M.E., Energy Engineering
No
I'm a part of an Integrate M.Tech program.
Junior Research Fellow [JRF]
I was Assistant professor at R C Patel institute of Technology, Shirpur
Maharashtra.But i do not have any Job, Currently.But I am active PhD / Research.Aspirant.This thing I have clarified with Course Management team.
3. Please mention the name of your School/College/Institute, or the company you work for, etc.
Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad
Symbiosis Institute of Technology
Jaypee University Of Engineering and Technology, Guna, MP
Jaypee University of Engineering and Technology, Guna
IIEST Shibpur
SASTRA
Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, Pune
ABES Engineering College, Ghaziabad
PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore
MANIPAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, MANIPAL
Gayatri Vidya Parishad College of Engineering (A)
PSG College of Technology ,Coiambatore
BIT Sindri
Datta Meghe College of Engineering
UFI INNOVATION CENTER
SIDDHARTH INSTITUTE OF ENGINEEERING AND TECHNOLOGY
Jaypee University of Engineering and Technology, Guna
DYPIEMR,Akurdi
BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MESRA
Madras Institute of Technology,Anna university,Chromepet campus,Chennai44
NIT Agartala
National Institute of Technology, Calicut
CUSAT
Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur
G.H. RAISONI INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY, PUNE
B S abdurrahman cresent college of science and Technology
Centre for Water Resources, Anna University, Chennai
IIT MADRAS
St.Joseph's College (Autonomous), Bangalore
CUSAT
Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad
School of Aerospace Engineering, Jain (Deemed to be University)
Padre Conceicao College of Engineering
NIT,ROURKELA
V.V.P. Engineering College, Rajkot Gujarat
Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi
Vishwakarma Institute of Technology
NIT Rourkela
PSG COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY, COIMBATORE, TAMILNADU, INDIA
PSG COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY, COIMBATORE
Cochin University of Science And Technology
IES COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY, BHOPAL
Indian Institute of Technology Ropar
Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai Marathwada Campus
Army Institute of Technology
Rosary College, Navelim, Salcete, Goa
Gayatri Vidya Parishad College of Engineering (Autonomous)
GITAM Deemed to be University
MNIT JAIPUR
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU CENTRE FOR ADVANCE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH [JNCASR],
BANGALORE
VNIT
PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, TN.
IIT Goa
B.M.S. College of Engineering, Bengaluru
R V College of Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Last College - R C Patel institute of Technology
BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, MESRA
GUJARAT TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
Freelancer
SVNIT surat
Pillai College of Engineering, New Panvel
Roorkee College of Engineering, Roorkee
IIT Kanpur
BIT Sindri Dhanbad
NIT Nagaland
Shree L.R Tiwari College Of Engineering.
IIT Kharagpur
4. Generally, how comfortable are you in learning a BRAND NEW software? Please select one.
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Questions related to CFD background and software
5A. Have you taken any CFD course(s) previously?
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5B. If yes, please mention when you took the course and the name of the course(s).
NPTEL Course of Introduction to Computational Fluid dynamics from IIT Kharagpur
Cornell Confluence Course for Ansys Fluent
Sustainable energy using CFD, ATAL FDB
Computational Thermo-Fluid dynamics in 7th semester of B.Tech Mechanical engineering
Ansys Fluent in july 2019
Online CFD training, FluiDimensions - July 2020
Numerical Fluid Flow & Heat Transfer (2012-2013) IIT Kanpur
Computational Fluid Dynamics for Incompressible Flows (2019-20) IIT Guwahati
Ansys
No
It was a compulsory subject in my ME course
Numerical fluid flow and Heat Transfer
CFD, currently studying
I have completed two weeks training program on 2009 in Ansys fluent
2019, Numerical techniques in ocean hydrodynamics
ANSYS
TEQUIP3 .. multiphase flows in CFD
IN MY Ph.D COURSE
SWAYAM course on Computational Fluid Dynamics using Finite Volume Method
2 years earlier
Since It was a practice session more attractive and beneficial
In M.Tech- Computational Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow
Introduction to CFD - 2003
COMPUTATION FLUID DYNAMICS [CFD] DURING MASTER PROGRAM IN 2014
Introduction to CFD at NPTEL
Yes - From NPTEL - Foundations of CFD - Prof Vengadesan - IIT Madras
Advanced Fluid Mechanics - Prof Suman Chakraborty - IIT Kharagpur
Master's program
Computational Fluid dynamics course in IIT Kanpur
Introduction to CFD (In 2013), Computational Fluid Dyanmics (in 2016)
6. Please enter the total number of days of workshop/training on CFD you may have undergone BEFORE the current workshop.
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7A. Do you currently use any CFD software?
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7B. If yes, which CFD software do you currently use?
Ansys Fluent, OpenFOAM
OpenFOAM
OpenFoam
OpenFoam
COMSOL
ANSYS FLUENT
ANSYS FLUENT
Ansys
ANSYS FLUENT
OpenFOAM8
Ansys Fluent
fluent
Fluent
Ansys fluent
OPENFOAM
Ansys, but I want use only openFoam
OPENFOAM
Ansys, OpeanFoam
ANSYS CFD
Ansys fluent
R2021 R1
OPENFOAM
Fluent
ANSYS-Fluent
COMSOL
ANSYS - CFX / ANSYS - FLUENT
Ansys Fluent
ANSYS FLUENT
STAR CCM+
OPENFOAM
Ansys Fluent
ANSYS Fluent, Star CCM+
ANSYS-FLUENT
Ansys
ANSYS fluent
Openfoam, comsol
OpenFOAM
OpenFOAM
Ansys
8A. Have you used OpenFOAM before you registered for this workshop?
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8B. If the answer to the above question is "Yes", in what way have you used it? Please select all the relevant options.
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8C. If your answer to the above question is OTHER, then please specify:
Learning the Software for Future
B.Tech fiinal year project
DURING WORK
I am phd students and working numerical simulation using OpenFOAM
I was practicing earlier through Spoken tutorials on OpenFoam
Trying to learn from Spoken Tutorials from FOSSEE
I used OpenFoam after I knew about the workshop and tried some of the relevant examples.
Just ran some tutorials
To prepare for pariticipation in Semester Long Internship of FOOSEE
9A. Why would you like to learn OpenFOAM?
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9B. If your answer to the above question is OTHER, then please specify:
Get to know underlying mechanics of CFD and contribute to development
JI was interested in the subject hence I thought learning this would be helpful.
It is opensource.
Both Teaching and Research
Questions related to installation
10. Were you able to install OpenFOAM with just the instructions available?
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11. Did you take help to install OpenFOAM?
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12. Did you install Ubuntu and OpenFOAM only during the ‘Installation Help Session’ provided on the day of the workshop?
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13. After installation, would you have preferred to follow through on a couple of Spoken Tutorials on Linux commands before starting to learn OpenFOAM through Spoken Tutorials?
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Questions related to learning in the workshop
14. Rate your experience in using Spoken Tutorial to learn OpenFOAM. (Kindly provide the response using the scale given below, wherein 1 implies "Strongly Disagree", 2 implies "Disagree", 3 implies "Neither Disagree Nor Agree", 4 implies "Agree", and 5 implies "Strongly Agree".)15. Using these tutorials, were you able to learn the following concepts ? (Kindly respond using the scale given below, wherein 1 implies "extremely easy to learn" and 5 implies "extremely difficult to learn".)
16. Were the 9:30am-10:00am optional sessions to discuss the practice problems useful?
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17. How will you rate the difficulty of the practice problems? Please choose 1 for difficult and 5 for easy.
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18. How would you rate your experience of the hands-on sessions? (Kindly respond using the scale given below, wherein 1 implies "totally useless" and 5 implies "extremely useful".)
19. How would you rate your experience of the lectures and talks? (Kindly respond using the scale given below, wherein 1 implies "not of much use" and 5 implies "extremely useful".)
20. Do you think some lectures were too advanced for this workshop? If so, please mention which.
Multiphase Flows
No
Yes, but were quite interesting as well (Prashant Sir's was a bit too advanced)
nil
No
NO
ChemFoam
no
no
CODING
No
Laplacian Solver Code
yes, like writing solver and explanation of the y+.
Writing Laplacian Solver and compiling
Reaction flows
Yes. Some topics like writing a solver required knowledge of Linux commands, which many people had difficulty following
NO
Yes
Specially with current concepts
No
No none
All the lectures are relevant to the workshop
Laplacian Solver
no
I DONT THINK ANY OF THE LECTURES WERE TOO ADVANCED. IN FACT, I WISH THERE WERE SOME MORE ADVANCED TOPICS TO BE INCLUDED WITH MORE HANDS-ON.
The multiphase Flows lecture and In depth coding overview lectures
NO
No
21. Would you have wanted more lectures? If yes, please indicate which topic you would have wanted to be covered.
Some basic command of Cpp used in OpenFOAM
Jet Mixing
Yes, on compressible flow!
Yes, i would have loved to get more on any topic
Yes, Turbomachinery flows
Definitely yes. Each area - incompressible, compressible, combustion, etc. can be shown one case study
YES
Complex Geometries
Automobile related simulations
aerodynamic design
compiling and code writing
MESHING AND GEOMETRY
Basics of writing code
yes, irrotational fluid with vortex or flow past a cylinder
yes, multiphase flows-eular-eular.
introduction to linux commands and meaning of standard coded results
OpenFoam coding
Yes, Multiphase flows
Yes on ChemFoam
Chemical Reactions (Combustion)
No. The effective utilization of time needs more on hands on
On Mixed Convection
Not sure.
Hands - on for geometry/meshing complicated geometries and troubleshooting common errors
yes, indoor air pollution modelling
ELABORATED TOPICS COVERING HEAT TRANSFER (BATTERY THERMAL MANAGEMENT STUDY), MULTIPHASE WITH PARTICLE FLOW STUDY AND FEW CASES ON ACOUSTICS.
As CFD is a vital tool in computational aerodynamics, if the flow physics of certain aerospace related situations was emphasized on, it would have been great. Examples include : Flow over different kinds of nose cones or fins, re-entry vehicles, etc.
How to write our own code and run. I request for the recorded sessions on specially for the self code making and running. By playing the same we can practice.
Yes, nanofluids in shelland tube heat exchanger
Yes, Numerical schemes and Matrix Solvers, Turbulence modeling,
22. Please share your thoughts on the hands-on session (without Spoken Tutorials), and the Spoken Tutorial based sessions. Please tick all that is applicable.
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23. Rate the following aspects of the workshop: (Kindly respond using the scale given below, wherein 1 implies "Extremely bad ", 2 implies "Bad", 3 implies "Acceptable", 4 implies "Good", and 5 implies "Excellent".)
24. Comment regarding the pace of the workshop
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25. Select the response that describes your overall view of the workshop: (Kindly respond using the scale given below, wherein 1 implies "Strongly Disagree", 2 implies "Disagree", 3 implies "Neither Disagree Nor Agree", 4 implies "Agree", and 5 implies "Strongly Agree".)
26. How would you rate your level of knowledge in using OpenFOAM before and after the workshop? (Kindly respond using the scale given below, wherein 1 implies "Beginner" and 5 implies "Expert".)
27. Why did you not post questions nor answer questions in the forum?
Similar Questions Asked by Other Students
I have grasped the concept behind the problem quickly and had no doubt regarding any tutorial!
I have been posting questions on the fossee forum even before the workshop started
Unfortunately had an academic assignment like exam duty these days. I was not aware of this during registration.
Posted few questions. But help through chat box is great.
I could not install OpenFoam properly in my system....and also i faced network issue in my area...
want to solve on my own
posted questions in the chat box
I will post later for sure.
I did not have doubts or errors while using OpenFOAM and so I did not post any questions. And I am a beginner in this course and don't have much knowledge to answer the questions in the forum.
I was new to the Open Foam tool, but was able to identify my hidden skills of programming such CFD codes. Able recognize the problem and properly define it. But surely I will work in future with such tools.
Regarding question:- i posted a few
Regarding answers:- I am still practising and equiping myself to answer
I will
I will post in future. Now it was better to be discussed in live sessions.
Most of my questions were answered in the live session or already solved in the forum's.
I did post 1 question. But I didn't answer some questions since I couldn't.
I don't think I am good enough at OpenFoam to have the doubts of others be rectified.
Most of my doubts were cleared in the chat section of the workshop.
The internet was very slow.
I'm a slow learner
28. What aspect(s) about the workshop did you like the most?
The workshop was the best I have ever attended till now. The best thing was they never taught us considering us beginners because this helps us to learn more.
Guest Lectures
Interactive sessions with experienced people!
The guest lecture, and the concept of spoken tutorials and use of forums
Question-Answer Session
Commitment of all people involved - organisers, faculty, etc. Excellent commitment and dedication.
Instant Replies to the QA and Doubts
The team is very helpful and fast.
Lectures from Professor Jannani
Lecture talks from related technology expertise people
The way all people communicate and explain is terrific. I learnt to be calm and confident after seeing all your explanations and way of communicating during the workshop
`Hands-on session
Excellent lecture by professor janani
Lectures from experts especially prof.janani was useful and interesting
way of presentation.
Its invited talks were very good.
I liked that we got to work simultaneously instead of only lectures. So working and using the software simultaneously is what I appreciated the most. I also appreciated the time management.
spoken tutorials
guest lectures
in hand w/s
physical reasoning
hands on session, basics of coding
Handson sessions - excellent
Blended mode of the workshop
1.The relentless support from the organizers was great.
2. The emphasis given to the understanding the physics/concepts.
Lectures are very nice and in a simple manner so that anyone can understand in an easy way. Spoken tutorials are keen to boost the speed of learning.
I would appreciate the efforts made by each one of you. Keep organizing such workshops in the future too.
Lecture given by Prof. Janani was very clear.A great appreciation has to be given to the crew for clarifying the doubts of the partitcipants.. Being a beginner in CFD, I learned a lot through the workshop .
Dr. Janani mam's talk
Effective and cooperative team
Learning of participants as a objective was the best thing I like most.
The live sessions as they always taught me something new.
The live interactive sessions.
INTERACTIVE SESSIONS AND CODE COMPILING WITH MODIFIED SOLVER
Professor Janani's sessions which dealt with the physical interpretation of the ton of code was the icing on the cake. I really liked the ST based learning too, I could go at my own pace.
I liked the hands on live - session
-Oveall Planed coverage of all topics in limited time of 3 days of Workshop
-It is good starting point to enter, consolidate and Leverage in the world of CFD.
Lectures by the professors during the entire workshop.
Hands on session
Heat transfer
Interaction sessions, Lectures
29. What aspect(s) about the workshop did you dislike the most?
The workshop can teach us some basic code of Cpp used in OpenFOAM, but overall it was awesome.
question from 1 person that goes too long
Everything waa good!
none
None
downloading the tool was not at all easy with given instructions
Less number of days. You can consider conducting 1 week basic course or solver specific course for 1 week and you can charge more. Quality you are delivering is very good. So please charge more.
Coding in Live session to be paced out since i am new to linux
The compile session was very chaotic
more lectures compared with hands-on sessions
I think there was hardly anything to dislike....but i would recommend to note down the problems faced by each participant in this workshop and keep the solutions ready for another in case it is conducted in future so that the time would be saved.
They can interact more by randomly calling the participant about the status in hands on session
Time
on line practice is too difficult usually but here with experts from IITB, mumbay is easy to learn the basic concept and side by side practice.
nill
Nothing.
towards the end it was gathering speed
introduction to linux programming also need to b added
more clarification on physical concepts and associated processes for beginers
None
None
The speed of the coding part can be a little reduced so that the students who are new to such software can run the program parallley.
NA
Unstable internet connectivity disturbed the learning process.
The syntax used sometimes for coding.
If we were provided with recordings it would be better.
I DONT THINK ANY OF THE ASPECT MADE ME DISLIKE
I wouldn't say I disliked these the most, but they certainly made me feel uncomfortable. Dr Bose's session was too fast paced. Although some participants requested for Multiphase content, I as a beginner felt it to be overwhelming.
- Everthing is well if we consider limited time of 3 days.
Overall it was very good.
Maybe, I should catch up faster
Non
Effectiveness of the current and conventional workshopsYou may have undergone some other workshop on CFD. We want you to compare that experience with the current experience. There are only two, but important, questions in this section. Please take a few minutes to understand the questions and answer them.
30. Compare the method of learning through Spoken Tutorials with CONVENTIONAL software training workshops you may have attended
31. This question has to do with the CURRENT workshop using Spoken Tutorials
General
32. We have provided you with OpenFOAM Spoken Tutorials and many other learning materials in this workshop. What else is required for you to conduct a similar workshop in your institution by yourself? (Kindly respond using the scale given below, wherein 1 implies "Strongly Disagree", 2 implies "Disagree", 3 implies "Neither Disagree Nor Agree", 4 implies "Agree", and 5 implies "Strongly Agree".)33A. Check all the activities of the FOSSEE - OpenFOAM team that you will be interested to participate in.
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33B. If your answer to the above question is OTHER, then please specify:
Working on getting a paper published using openFoam
It takes some time to come up to speed with OpenFoam before thinking of posting any case study projects.
My Final year project
Conduct a similar workshop at our institution
34A. What in your opinion are some other tasks the OpenFOAM team should undertake? Please check all that is applicable.
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34B. If your answer to the above question is OTHER, then please specify:
Please consider industry sponsor for OpenFoam projects and there can be some competitions funded by CFD industries. That way students get confident that OpenFoam is a skill that delivers employment. Lot of MSMEs in India cannot afford Fluent and other commerical software.
Conduct OpenFOAM training programmes through other institutions
35. Any other suggestions/comments
No suggestion just include Cpp code for the future workshop for deep understanding
Great session.........Just want that one two lecture should be on coding and postprocessing using sampleDict and other openFOAM utilities
No
Thank you
Thank you very much for such nice workshop.
Please make spoken tutorials available to download from the site so that people can download from there and use them in absence of the internet also.
It was very nice session....Thank You
Excellent initiative , Thanks team
Theme Based Openfoam workshop
We need to practice in computer lab at IIT Bombay with assistant in hands on.
So many doubts directly resolve easily. Three days not sufficient for advanced CFD learning with C++ code.
This was one of the most wonderful workshops I have attended. I had a great time learning this new software. I thank all the organizers and teachers who helped me during the workshop. I enjoyed this workshop throughout. Thank You.
BASICS OF LINUX FOR USING OPENFOAM NEEDED
IT SHOULD HAVE HAD MORE TIME WITH MORE HRS GIVEN FOR EVERY TALK
Specific tutorial for coding and create own solvers is needed
Knowledge of Basic Linux commands is a must as prerequisite for this course. Also to install Linux I needed help form my colleagues from the computer dept and system administrator.
One issue I faced was that the college firewall would block certain sites and hence installation was difficult. Please ask participants to check it with their system administrator of their colleges during the next workshop. It'll save a lot of time
no comments...
It will be great if there is a course on OpenFoam on SWAYAM/NPTEL
Do arrange a Advanced Workshop on OpenFOAM 7.
Direct institutional support will be more effective
Need more such workshops for value addition to us.
It was a pleasure to attend. Excellent work !
I am very lethargic to learning anything outside of core Mechanical skills, especially skill sets involving a PC. But the way OpenFoam was presented here emphasized well the need for interdisciplinary exposure, like coding or handling a terminal, and this made it easy for me to let go of my internal resistances.
no
The workshop was a great learning experience for me. It really kickstarted my journey into OpenFOAM
- Very Nice ! Awesome !! & Ultimate !!!
- This workshop should be done at three levels:- Basic (3 Days), Intermediate (5 Days) and Advanced (8 Days)
- All recording, slides, ppts should be given to participants.
If we get the recorded sessions, so we can practice them in our free times. I want more information how to write our own code and run. The Recorded session by Dr Chandan bode will be extremely useful to me, as he had solved heat conduction using openFom, which is of my prime interest.
A very well scheduled workshop. The effort taken by the FOSSEE team from the intallation process to the end of the workshop was appreciable. Thank you for creating such an opportunity to participating the great workshop.
Thank you
It would also be more helpful to include some of the topics related to OpenFOAM programming.
E.g. 1) Printing some of the solver calculations on the output screen
2) Creating new dictionary files with custom names
3) Some topics related to understand the OpenFOAM Classes and its usage through examples via coding (e.g Matrix operations)
4) Writing simple codes/scripts to get the finite volume cell information. Etc.
I hope this can also be helpful to build the OpenFOAM solvers/utilities and contributing to the openfoam.