Visa resultat

CFD with OpenSource Software 2009

1. If you started but did not finish this course, please state why.

2. Comment the contents of the course and give your general impression of the course.

- Yes, it did. It was a really good introductory course giving the basis to work with that software.»
- It covered what I expected. The syllabus covered a wide range, but since the time was limited, some contents were not explained in detail, for example, debugging, deoxygen, python.»
- I think the contents of the course are very good. Not all points of the Syllabus has been discussed a lot (e.g. Debugging), but that probably is also because of the time schedule. »
- Yes, It is quite good as I expected»
- This course is very fruitful for a person who has some background in working with OpenFOAM. All the materials in the course are well prepared and presented. »
- no, this course just covers very basic knowledge. it does not contain any information related to my project»
- the course covered all that I expected from reading course homepage»
- Yes. Yes.»
- I think it was too less examples. There should be a real case to be solved from the beginning. »
- General impression is good. Of cource, it is impossible to cover all the features of such a software in so short time.»
- yes, it covered the expectations and the syllabus is very good»
- Yes.»
- The course covered the introduction to OpenFOAM sufficiently.»

3. How much time did you spend on this course, and did it correspond to 7.5 "Higher education credits"?

- I spent quite a lot of time because this software was completely new for me as well as linux. So I had to make an extra effort. It can be say that it corresponds it 7,5 Higher education credits.»
- I spent perhaps two working weeks or more in doing the homeworks, writing, revising, and peer reviewing the report. The lecturing time is fine, maybe we should have more time in group discussion and peer reviewing.»
- time in class: 48 hours (breaks included) assignments and start of project: 56 hours (breaks included)»
- 20 hours»
- Yes, there were enough topics to discuss in this course. »
- yes, it does correspond to 7.5 points»
- N/A since I did not intend to finish the course, so I did not spend so much time at home.»
- About 15-20 hours per week, throughout the course. Yes, 7.5 credits seems appropriate.»
- I spend much time before I quit it.»
- It took more time then I expected it to take, it definitely is worth 7.5 credits and probably even more.»
- I spent quite a lot of time on both,the assignments and the project work.I believe it corresponds to these credits.»
- No idea, but time spent was slightly more than I normally spend on a 10 credit course...»

4. Comment the schedule of the course.

- It would be better by shorten days (probably half day) because then there can be more exercise practice to make at home and then reviewed in the lecture. Also, full days were a little bite exhausting. In the other hand, making it not full days, it is difficult for people not living in Göteborg»
- I prefer to have the course with shorter days but more often. The time between the start and end of the course is fine.»
- The schedule concerning the time between start and end of the course is very good. Full days are of course quite tough, since you get a lot of "input" during a full day. But I think to give industrial people the chance to join the course it is important and the best way to teach in full days as it was done. »
- maybe half a day would be good»
- In my opinion it would be much more efficient to make the lecture times less than a full day but on the other hand more often sessions. »
- it not good for full day! »
- good with full days for industry participants»
- I travelled to the course, so two full days each time was perfect for me.»
- Good with full days»
- Scheduling was ok. It was planned in a good advance and allowed me to fit it in my timetable.»
- The schedule was very good.»
- Good with full days and not so often - makes it easier for the ones who have to travel far to take the course.»
- The schedule with two days learning every second week was and couple of weeks for project work was sufficient. »

5. To what extent has the teaching been of help for your learning?

Small extent»		0		0%
Some extent»		3		23%
Large extent»		5		38%
Great extent»		5		38%

Genomsnitt: 3.15

- Actually I would put the dot between "some" and "large" extent. Some lectures really helped me a lot. For example copying and compiling a new turbulence model. This really showed how a model can be modified etc. On the other hand it was difficult to follow the C++ part if you did not have much C++ knowledge before. I asked other students who told me that they also had problems to follow that part. I know C++ is not easy, but maybe it would be good to add an example that makes it easier to understand some things (classes, member functions, pointers...). » (Some extent)
- In my idea the organization and presentation of the discussed topics in the course were well arranged. Actually, it was my own fault that did not get all the presented materials, because, this course requires some basic knowledge on working in LINUX and to some extent C++ which I did not have these experiences before. » (Some extent)
- More tutorials on the topics how to produce graphs or extract surfaces would be useful.» (Large extent)
- devoted lecturer is always a positive thing... » (Great extent)
- For one unused to typing in class, it was often difficult to follow excercises on-screen and on my computer at the same time. Most was given in handouts, though, so it was possible to go back and redo the class later.» (Great extent)

6. To what extent has the course material been of help for your learning?

Small extent»		0		0%
Some extent»		2		15%
Large extent»		9		69%
Great extent»		2		15%

Genomsnitt: 3

- The documentation of OpenFOAM at large is rather unstructured and focussed on one specific problem in each item. This was reflected by the course, and although many useful links was provided, t is difficult to get an overview.» (Some extent)
- The course material together with the lectures helped me (e.g. lectures are always good to make your own notices in the course material). I still use it to check up several things. » (Large extent)
- At least now I am familiar with the capabilities of the OpenFOAM and when I run to a problem in the code I know how to solve it (to some extents).» (Large extent)
- Could have been more materials with examples» (Great extent)
- Very useful with all the various tips and tricks regarding LiNuX commands and environment.» (Great extent)

7. To what extent have the assignments been of help for your learning?

Small extent»		0		0%
Some extent»		3		23%
Large extent»		8		61%
Great extent»		2		15%

Genomsnitt: 2.92

- I have some comments on our assignments. The first assignment which the students were supposed to run through the available tutorials in the OpenFOAM is good for the students to get familiar with the code and the optionalities available both in OpenFOAM and Paraview, but I, myself, just ran the tutorials and plotted the results for a variety of different problems. I think this could be done just by doing 1 or 2 of the tutorials e.g. cavity and damBreak and after this to be more deep in one of these codes. The second assignment which the students were to develop a code and apply it to a specific case is very helpful but according to me there should be some other assignments beside this assignment which put some force on the students to do some code developments themselves instead of just following an instruction and copy pasting. » (Some extent)
- To run all the tutorials is mostly very easy but good introduction to use of OF. Although I know your reason, I think it is to much time consuming to make all those plots. Because I spent most of the time thinking how to make the post processing unique than learning OF. » (Some extent)
- as stated, did not do much of the assignments» (Large extent)
- though, quite confusing assignments» (Large extent)
- Especially the second part of the first assignment was useful. » (Large extent)
- The tutorial assignments are good as introduction assignments to get used to the various dictionaries etc. Perhaps add some type of "run an undocumented test case for an undocumented solver and present results" assignment? Some in-depth coding tasks are very useful, but must be balanced with an apropriate level of C++ coding tutorials (like with the boundary condition assignment). » (Great extent)

8. To what extent has the project been of help for your learning?

Small extent»		1		8%
Some extent»		2		16%
Large extent»		5		41%
Great extent»		4		33%

Genomsnitt: 3

- Quit before that» (?)
- Since I did not come so far with the project it did not help me a lot. But if I look at other projects I think the project is something where you really have to understand a lot and that means you learn a lot! » (Small extent)
- More discussion with the students and teachers will be even helpful for the project.» (Large extent)
- especially the comments which Håkan Nilsson made on my project forced me to be a little bit more deep in the project. » (Large extent)
- as stated, did not do project but I think thats were I would have learned a lot...» (Great extent)

9. Comment the assessment of your learning.

- I think that I did good work considering the level of the subject.»
- Yes.»
- Without the project I did not learn that much I was expecting to learn. To me it seems to do the project is the biggest part and you learn a lot while doing it. But of course the lectures and assignments are also important. I already worked a little bit with OpenFOAM before, so not everything was new, of course.»
- yes, »
- More comments are always good, but averall, I am satisfied.»
- It is a good cource, sometimes hard but very good from the learning perspective.»
- Yes»
- Yes. The peer review was very instructive, but maybe one week to effectuate changes is a bit short?»
- I would skip the assessment of the first assignment and keep it as highly recommended. I would start with defining the project goals earlier so the student can pay more attention when the related topic is presented.»

10. What should definitely be preserved to next year?

11. What should definitely be changed to next year?

12. How well did the course administration, web page, handouts etc work?

Very badly»		0		0%
Rather badly»		0		0%
Rather well»		5		38%
Very well»		8		61%

Genomsnitt: 3.61

- Handouts, web page worked well. Some problems with the computers we used made some lectures a bit "broken" in the sence that it broke some of the flow of the course...» (Rather well)
- I never had problems with that and I never felt that I need more information.» (Very well)
- excellent» (Very well)

13. Additional comments