UMass Lowell Linux Club Meeting Notes (Fall 2021)

Notes from meetings held during the academic semester.

1. 03Sep2021 Zoom meeting; web link and phone number available at the uml-linux Google group

   • Continue to learn how to develop MOOSE apps
   • Issues installing MOOSE from last semester.
   • Download and install the Cubit free educational license binary.
   • Focus on geometry and meshing for more elaborate problems
   • Use the geometry and mesh generation package Coreform Cubit
   • Transfer data to MOOSE through a MOOSE input.hit file

2. 10Sep2021 Zoom meeting; web link and phone number available at the uml-linux Google group

   • Creating simple geometry and meshing as an alternate to MOOSE meshing for Engy-5310 course.
   • A separate README.md file created for geometry and meshing with Coreform Cubit created. + Files will be eventually be uploaded in the course repo.

3. 17Sep2021 Zoom meeting; web link and phone number available at the uml-linux Google group

   • More issues with Coreform-Cubit education license install. Not working with Linux.
   • Continue to work on meshing examples for Engy-5310.

4. 24Sep2021 Zoom meeting; web link and phone number available at the uml-linux Google group

   • Meeting notes not available.

5. 01Oct2021 Zoom meeting; web link and phone number available at the uml-linux Google group

   • Meeting notes not available.

6. 08Oct2021 Zoom meeting; web link and phone number available at the uml-linux Google group

   • Testing 2D simple CUBIT meshes for course notebooks.
   • Creating a bi-quadratic quad9 mesh in CUBIT for MOOSE usage. For now use a CUBIT command line to create a block of elements with quad9 type. Save mesh in exodus format. More on this later.

7. 15Oct2021 Zoom meeting; web link and phone number available at the uml-linux Google group

   • Apparently element order is changed via the command prompt, e.g:
   • block 1 surface 2
   • block 1 element type QUAD9
   • Delete the block later if needed for other changes
   • Element order can be changed by creating a block either at the command line or the UI.
   • Then select the Block on the project tree and the properties will appear at the bottom left pallete
   • On the Element Type entry, select the element type.
   • 2D elements tested with MOOSE/CUBIT: tri3, tri7, quad4, and quad9

8. 29Oct2021 Zoom meeting; web link and phone number available at the uml-linux Google group

   • General hands-on programming work
   • Python programming on finite element basis functions

9. 05Nov2021 Zoom meeting; web link and phone number available at the uml-linux Google group

   • General hands-on programming work
   • Considerations for a formal UML Linux Club: denied by the attending members; we want to stay open, independent, and poor.

10. 05Nov2021 Zoom meeting; web link and phone number available at the uml-linux Google group

    • Q&A on Engy-5310
    • Working on Galerkin notes for Engy-5310