NFDI4Ing Model Validation Platform

This is the main repository of the NFDI4Ing Model Validation Platform. It contains shared infrastructure, documentation, example implementations, and a registry of all available benchmarks.

Available Benchmarks

Benchmark	Repository	Description
Linear Elastic Plate with Hole	Simulation-Benchmarks/linear-elastic-plate-with-hole	Convergence study for linear elasticity with analytical solution
Rotating Cylinders	Simulation-Benchmarks/rotating-cylinders	Navier-Stokes flow between rotating cylinders (Taylor-Couette)
Hele-Shaw Cells	Simulation-Benchmarks/hele-shaw-cells-example	Radial viscous fingering in a 2D circular Hele-Shaw cell (VOF, gap-averaged, OpenFOAM heleShawFoam)

Repository Structure

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├── docs/                   # General documentation
│   └── getting_started/    # Tutorials and guides
├── examples/               # Example implementations showing how to build a benchmark
├── notebooks/              # Jupyter notebooks for exploring results
├── src/meshhelper/         # Shared mesh utility
└── .github/workflows/      # CI for examples

Quick Start

# Create the documentation environment
mamba env create -n model-validation-platform-docs -f environment.yml
conda activate model-validation-platform-docs

# Serve docs locally
mkdocs serve

Documentation

The full documentation is hosted at ReadTheDocs.

Acknowledgments

This platform is developed as part of the NFDI4Ing initiative.