Bio Reactor Design (BiRD)

BiRD is a toolbox aimed a facilitating the numerical simulation of bioreactors with OpenFOAM. The purpose of BiRD is

1. to ensure reproducibility of numerical simulations of bioreactors.

2. to create a suite of test cases that can be used to test different reactor configurations.

3. to facilitate validation of multiphase flow models against several experimental campaigns.

4. to facilitate optimization (geometry and operating conditions) of bioreactors.

It contains a python module bird that can be used to generate input files that may be read by OpenFOAM to generate meshes and cases. It can also be used to post process the output of OpenFOAM simulations.

We also provide a solver birdmultiphaseEulerFoam that contains custom models added to the base OpenFOAM-v9.

Note

This project is under active development. We welcome community contributions and testing!