Reproducible and replicable CFD: it's harder than you think

2016/05/13 by Olivier Mesnard, Mesnard, Olivier, Lorena A. Barba +1 · 2 voices
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows #Fluid Dynamics and Vibration Analysis #Lattice Boltzmann Simulation Studies #physics.comp-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1605.04339

12 pages, 11 figures; accepted in Computing in Science and Engineering. Supplementary materials in https://github.com/barbagroup/snake-repro

openalex publication_date 2016/05/13 · arxiv created 2016/10/15 · arxiv updated 2016/10/18 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

Completing a full replication study of our previously published findings on bluff-body aerodynamics was harder than we thought. Despite the fact that we have good reproducible-research practices, sharing our code and data openly. Here's what we learned from three years, four CFD codes and hundreds of runs.

Discussions

• Reproducible and replicable CFD: it’s harder than you think [lobsters, 4 points, 1 comments]
• I was recently reminded of this article by @labarba.bsky.social: arxiv.org/abs/1605.04339 I'd be willing to bet that in almost all cases, the description in the article (PDEs, mesh, IBCs), would not [bsky, 1 points, 1 comments]

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