preCICE v3.5 and workshop 2027 in Delft

Version 3.5.0 of the preCICE coupling library was just released. In the v3.x release cycle, preCICE has added several features for efficient volume coupling (e.g., mesh-particle / CFD-DEM coupling), RBF mapping on GPUs, time interpolation, dynamic meshes, and geometric multiscale mapping. With the Micro-Manager, it is possible to couple one-to-many micro-macro simulations, while with the FMI runner, it is possible to couple to FMU models.

preCICE is an open-source coupling library and ecosystem for partitioned multi-physics and multi-scale simulations. It enables the efficient, robust, and parallel coupling of separate single-physics solvers. preCICE treats these solvers as black boxes, and, thus, only minimally-invasive changes are necessary to prepare a solver for coupling. Ready-to-use adapters for well-known open-source solvers are available: some examples of coupled codes include G+Smo, MercuryDPM, Nutils, OpenFOAM, deal.II, FEniCS, CalculiX, and SU2. The software offers methods for equation coupling, fully parallel communication, data mapping, and time interpolation.

The 7th preCICE Workshop will be held for the first time outside Germany, at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, on March 1-5, 2027, co-organized by Jingya Li and Matthias Möller from the Numerical Analysis group and the G+Smo community. The workshop is a coming together of the preCICE community to share ideas, experiences, and knowledge about using preCICE and to learn from others in the process. Like always, we plan to have user and developer talks, hands-on training sessions, discussions with the developers about your applications and use cases, and plenty of opportunities for networking.

We are looking for talks and posters that could be beneficial for the wider preCICE community. Are you developing a new adapter? Are you using preCICE for an exciting new application? Are you developing new methods that should not be missing from preCICE? If the answer to any of these questions was yes, we encourage you to submit a brief abstract for a 20-minute talk. Are you revisiting one of the classical preCICE use cases? Did you already present your work in a previous workshop? Then we would be very happy to catch up with your work, and we encourage you to present a poster. After review, and depending on the available slots, we might suggest a different presentation format than you originally applied for.

Submission deadline: November 22 (extended).
Submitting a contribution is not necessary to attend the workshop.

precice.org/community/workshops/2027/