Only with the necessary resources for continued maintenance and development can open source software become viable. We are working to build a sustainable future for OpenLB, keeping it a leading contemporary Lattice Boltzmann solution approach. By supporting OpenLB as an academic or industry user, you contribute to its long-term development and receive dedicated support from the core development team.
Support OpenLB’s continued development and, in return, receive dedicated assistance from our core team. We offer the following three collaboration options:
1/ Contribute Directly
Contribute your source code, documentation, and thoughts using OpenLB’s public Git repository available on Gitlab. Contact us and send us your simulation pictures and videos, which we would be happy to share by linking your name as the contributor and your references on our website.
2/ Become a Research Project Partner
Include OpenLB as a project partner in your research project proposal or team up with the OpenLB developers to write a proposal. This is the best option to benefit from the research and scientific expertise of the OpenLB core team and increases the chances of your project being funded. The developers of OpenLB are experts in numerical methods, high-performance computing, and software engineering for CFD problems using Lattice Boltzmann Methods. Reviewers appreciate the highly recognized expertise of OpenLB, as demonstrated by our fast growing number of publications and our vibrant community.
3/ Become a Consortium Member
A consortium membership is the easiest way to support OpenLB. You directly contribute to the development of OpenLB through a fixed amount per year. In exchange, you will receive several benefits, particularly timely and direct support from the core developer team concerning any issues that may arise when using OpenLB.
As an academic consortium member, you can declare the consortium fee, similar to any software license and membership fees, as a direct cost (consumable) in your research proposal (see e.g. Section 2.1 and 2.5 in basic module DFG guidelines). It is also recommended to include the support license as a risk mitigation strategy to highlight that you, as a project lead, have the support for a successful implementation. In addition, as part of the membership, you can leverage the OpenLB website and community for your communication/dissemination activities.
The OpenLB Consortium aims at…
- continuous development and maintenance
- on current standard HPC-Hardware
- based on state-of-the-art LBM
The OpenLB Consortium offers…
Individual Consulting
The OpenLB team can offer specialized and timely consulting on the use of OpenLB, LBM, CFD and beyond. Such consulting is available on an hourly basis in packages e.g.
- 75 hours p.a. (package S)
- 160 hours p.a. (package M)
- 1000 hours p.a (package L)
- on-call support possible
- or more
Training
The OpenLB team has extensive experience in training new users in the details of OpenLB, not just in our regular spring schools but also beyond that in dedicated on-site training for industrial and academic partners.
In any case, all consortium members receive priority registration and reserved capacities at our annual spring schools.
General support
- high-priority support in the forum
- help in the installation and usage of OpenLB on clusters or desktops
- annual hackathons (core development focused meeting of developers)
- member’s logo on the OpenLB “Partners & Friends” website
Annual Consortium Meeting
Since 2023, all consortium members are invited to an annual online meeting consisting of:
- presentation and discussion of new research results LBM (2 hours incl. slides as report)
- discussion and naming of OpenLB refactoring priorities
- discussion and naming of priorities of new OpenLB features
- discussion and naming of priorities of new LBM developments
Become a member
Want to become an OpenLB Consortium member and enjoy one or more of the benefits listed above (aka “support license” or “training license”)? Please contact: consortium@openlb.net.
