Eddylicious is a python library for generating inflow boundary fields for scale-resolving simulations of turbulent flow like LES and DNS. The goal of eddylicious is to serve as a central place-holder for existing inflow generation methods and make them easily accessible to the CFD community.

Currently, eddylicious is geared mostly towards working with OpenFOAM, but we hope to support other CFD solvers in the future.

Intrested? Proceed to readthedocs for more information, documentation and a tutorial!

If you are using eddylicious in your work, please cite the following.

Timofey Mukha and Mattias Liefvendahl. Eddylicious: A Python package for turbulent inflow generation. SoftwareX, 7, pp. 112-114, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2018.04.001

• T. Mukha, M. Liefvendahl. The generation of turbulent inflow boundary conditions using precursor channel flow simulations. Computers and Fluids, 156, 21-33. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compfluid.2017.06.020
• E. K. Shehadi. Large Eddy Simulation of turbulent flow over a backward-facing step. Master thesis, Uppsala University, 2018. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.17703.24480
• X. Zhang, J. Wang, and D. Wan. Euler–Lagrange study of bubble drag reduction in turbulent channel flow and boundary layer flow. Physics of Fluids 32, 027101 (2020), https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5141608
• X. Zhang, J. Wang, and D. Wan. Euler–Lagrange study of bubble breakup and coalescence in a turbulent boundary layer for bubble drag reduction. Physics of Fluids 33, 037105 (2021), https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0037962