VirtualFluids (VF) is a research code developed at the Institute for Computational Modeling in Civil Engineering (iRMB). The code is a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) solver based on the Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM) for turbulent, thermal, multiphase and multicomponent flow problems as well as for multi-field problems such as Fluid-Structure-interaction including distributed pre- and postprocessing capabilities for simulations with more than 100 billion degrees of freedom.
## Getting Start
### Suported Platforms
VirtualFluids has been used on a variety of platforms:
VirtualFluids is mainly supported on these two platforms:
- Linux
- Mac OS X
- Windows
- Cygwin
VirtualFluids can also be build and used in a Docker image. An ubuntu development environment is located in the [container registry](https://git.rz.tu-bs.de/irmb/virtualfluids/container_registry).
An extensive guide about the usage and development in VirtualFluids with docker can be found [here](https://git.rz.tu-bs.de/irmb/virtualfluids/-/wikis/Getting-Start-with-the-development-of-VirtualFluids).
The following is a brief explanation of how to use it without Docker:
### Software Requirements
-[CMake](https://cmake.org/)(minimum version 3.15)