IM NEW HERE CHEMICAL ENGINEER Ph.D. student

[aimenmotie]

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Hi everyone,

Thrilled to announce that I am officially a GitHub Education Student! 🚀

As a Chemical Engineering PhD Researcher focused intensely on simulation and modeling, this status unlocks incredible partner offers and resources for my work.

My current research involves developing a high-fidelity Digital Twin for 3D-printed PEEK microreactors, integrating multi-physics CFD (Navier-Stokes, Energy, ADR) using FEniCSx, and Monte Carlo analysis for scale-up.

I am actively searching for a community to deepen my expertise in advanced simulation, particularly:
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) / Finite Element Method (FEM) implementation.
Digital Twin and Multi-Physics modeling.
Advanced Simulation of key unit operations, including Atmospheric/Vacuum Distillation Columns
Heat Exchanger Design & Analysis, specifically using methods like Bell-Delaware for thermal/hydraulic and exergy analyses of shell and tube configurations.
Open-source flow chemistry simulation projects.
Any recommendations for active GitHub communities, developer resources, or forums focusing on these technical areas in chemical engineering would be hugely appreciated! Let’s connect and collaborate on the future of simulation.

#GitHubEducation #ChemicalEngineering #PhDStudent #Simulation #CFD #DigitalTwin #Distillation #HeatExchangers

[Gecko51]

For FEniCSx specifically, the FEniCS Project Discourse (fenicsproject.discourse.group) is where the most active discussion happens, including dev-level stuff. The FEniCS GitHub org has responsive maintainers if you run into bugs or edge cases with your multi-physics setup.

For OpenFOAM-based CFD, both the ESI and Foundation forks have communities around them. The foam-extend fork is worth knowing about if you need more flexibility in solver customization.

A few repos directly relevant to your work:

• github.com/nschloe/meshio and github.com/nschloe/pygmsh for mesh generation and conversion
• github.com/firedrakeproject/firedrake as an alternative to FEniCSx, different assembly backend, sometimes better for certain problem types
• github.com/SMTorg/smt for surrogate modeling and sampling methods, useful in Monte Carlo workflows
• IDAES-PSE (github.com/IDAES/idaes-pse) is a DOE-backed open-source process modeling framework that covers distillation columns and heat exchanger design natively, Python-based and actively maintained

For the Digital Twin and physics-informed ML angle, NVIDIA Modulus (github.com/NVIDIA/modulus) has been picking up traction for multi-physics problems if you want to explore that direction.

The r/CFD subreddit is decent for practitioner-level discussion. CFD Online forums have more depth on specific solver issues.