Visa resultat

CFD with OpenFOAM, 2007-2008

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.

- Would have hace wantede some more indepth about application development and programing»
- good»
- The course was really informative and covered more than expected. The course homepage and syllabus were clear.»
- rhe course covered what i expected even more as we have learned the use of OpenFoam in different areas as the one we are confortable in»
- Svårt att bedöma då jag endast var på första tillfället.»
- The content was about what I expected. I learned both about OpenFoam and some new things about CFD in general.»
- I"d expected more applications and less details on using Linux. Though I now realized it is very important to be fluint in Linux to work fast in OpenFOAM.»
- The contents of the course are very nice and cover most of what I expected. The syllabus are appropriate and they are a good reference especialy the part of impelementing new solver and boundary condition.»
- The course covered a wide range of interesting aspects in the program.»

3. Comment the schedule of the course.

- Intense is good!»
- good»
- It is good as it is now»
- i think that three seminars was the best schedule possible and the laps of time between them ideal. it let us the time to digest information.»
- I think it was a good distribution of occasions, especially for people from other citys. The 3X2 occasions solutions is practical from that point of view. For me the long time between start and end was good, because 1) It takes time to learn a new software and 2) as a PHD student there are often many other things that shall be done simultaneously.»
- Good with long days and fewer occasions.»
- For me it was very good.»
- I liked the three occasions but the hours per day were a bit too much and tight.»

4. What was your impression of the first occasion?

9 svarande

Poor»		0		0%
Fair»		0		0%
Adequate»		2		22%
Good»		6		66%
Excellent»		1		11%

Genomsnitt: 3.88

- Good with handed out slides. Good that we took a lot of time to learn how to compile. Maybe we should have been informed (maybe we were) that we should have read the manual before the first occasion. I did, and I think it made it more easy for me to follow the lectures.» (Excellent)

5. What was your impression of the second occasion?

8 svarande

Poor»		0		0%
Fair»		0		0%
Adequate»		1		12%
Good»		5		62%
Excellent»		2		25%

Genomsnitt: 4.12

6. What was your impression of the third occasion?

9 svarande

Poor»		0		0%
Fair»		0		0%
Adequate»		1		11%
Good»		3		33%
Excellent»		5		55%

Genomsnitt: 4.44

- May be the students should also give a feedback about the oral presentations (in a similar way as for the reports) and say what was good and what should be improved in the oral communication? It could be something simple such as some notes returned at the end of the presentations. » (Excellent)
- encouraging» (Excellent)

7. What should definitely be preserved to next year?

8. What should definitely be changed to next year?

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

Small extent»		1		10%
Some extent»		0		0%
Large extent»		7		70%
Great extent»		2		20%

Genomsnitt: 3

- Jag var bara med på första tillfället.» (Small extent)
- It helped me to avoid the simple traps when it comes to compilations, changing bc etc.» (Large extent)
- the lectures were held very nice and in good order, the problem was long lecture hours in sequence» (Large extent)

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

Small extent»		1		10%
Some extent»		2		20%
Large extent»		3		30%
Great extent»		4		40%

Genomsnitt: 3

- See previous point!» (Large extent)
- The course material is very good: enough detailed to allow doing all the training without attending to the 1st and 2nd occasions...» (Great extent)

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

Very badly»		0		0%
Rather badly»		0		0%
Rather well»		3		37%
Very well»		5		62%

Genomsnitt: 3.62

- The structure of the handounts was a bit confusing. Maybe page numbering them would help.» (Rather well)

12. Comment the assessment of your learning.

- Good as it is»
- ok»
- This was really interesting. I found the peer reviewed quite hard to do as it was about a subject i di not have studied so that the only peer reviewed I did was the english corrections. Maybe it would be more interesting if we could peer reviewed a report that is quite close from our own subjects»
- Yes! I think it was a good course structure»
- Very good and I suggest more looking in the implementations and boundary conditions next time.»
- very good. the best possible way I can think about»

13. How much time did you spend on this course, and did it correspond to 5 credits?

- More like 4 credits so make a little longer»
- ~4-5 weeks. 5 credits is fine!»
- I think I spent less time than I should for 5 credits»
- i do not know perhaps one or two month»
- Yes, I think it corresponded to about 5 credits.»
- About 8 weeks full time. It realy correspond to 5 credits but the most credits we got is the learning of how to use OpenFOAM.»
- I personally spent plenty of time on that.»

14. Additional comments