The adapter was initially developed for conjugate heat transfer (CHT) simulations via preCICE by Lucia Cheung in the scope of her master’s thesis [1] in cooperation with SimScale. For running the adapter for CHT simulations refer to this thesis. The adapter was extended to fluid-structure interaction by Alexander Rusch [2].

The latest version of the adapter is based on CalculiX version 2.20. Legacy versions of the adapter for older versions of CalculiX are supported on various branches. Branches for CalculiX version older than 2.15 require preCICE v1.x, whereas newer versions rely on preCICE v2.x.

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[1] Lucia Cheung Yau. Conjugate heat transfer with the multiphysics coupling library precice. Master’s thesis, Department of Informatics, Technical University of Munich, 2016.

[2] Benjamin Uekermann, Hans-Joachim Bungartz, Lucia Cheung Yau, Gerasimos Chourdakis and Alexander Rusch. Official preCICE Adapters for Standard Open-Source Solvers. In Proceedings of the 7th GACM Colloquium on Computational Mechanics for Young Scientists from Academia, 2017.

This project contains modified CalculiX files (licensed under GPLv2 or later) and additional adapter-specific files (GPLv3). As a whole, this project is licensed under GPLv3.