Encapsulate switching On/Off of code: allowing comparison of LES model's effects?

[TessellateDataScience]

Hey Gabriel, wondering if youre interested in improving the end-users User eXperience? I'm not planning to run lots of LES with differing modelling approaches, but thought others might.

[gerlero]

Encapsulate switching On/Off of code

What do you mean by this?

[TessellateDataScience]

There are only a handful of tutorials on LES models laying out the code needed to use a variant, so basically allow 'foamlib' to run LES variants using simpler (less lines of) statements? On reflection maybe this also allows better 'optimisation studies' where LES-related parameters need to be tuned for the physical flow, as your setup/control the entire parameter search in Python? My paradigm of development is against allowing experts to control the speed of progress by allowing automatic-selection of such parameters, aiming to democratise the use of CFD. Is any of that unclear?

[gerlero]

@TessellateDataScience if I understand correctly, you'd like the library to offer functionality that reduces the boilerplate required to configure LES-based simulations? Please correct me if I'm getting this wrong.

I'd like to keep the core of foamlib as simple as possible and trying to match OpenFOAM's file and case structures pretty much 1:1. That said, I'm not blanket against adding other useful functionality, if it is expected to be useful to many users and especially if it can be encapsulated into its own module. Interesting that you mention optimization studies, as the addition of a module to better support that is being discussed in #361...

[TessellateDataScience]

Yep, reducing boilerplate is it exactly.

Thanks Gabriel, I'll head to that discussion for optimization things.