Bio Reactor Design (BiRD)

BiRD is a toolbox for computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations of bioreactors with OpenFOAM.

The objective of BiRD is to

1. ensure reproducibility of numerical simulations of bioreactors.

2. create a centralized suite of test cases for different reactor configurations.

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

4. 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 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!