cfd-vv-suite

cfd-vv-suite Documentation

Author: Valeria Puzikova (valeria.puzikova@gmail.com)

Published via GitHub Pages at: https://vvp-cfd.github.io/cfd-vv-suite

An open test suite for CFD code verification & validation. 58 cases (51 built-in + 7 imported), solver-agnostic CLI, OpenFOAM integration.

Contents

• Quick Start
• Case Index
• Case Format Specification
• Comparison Methodology
• Solver Integration
• Jupyter Guide
• External Sources
• MMS Generation Guide
• Data Provenance
• Digitization Guide
• Glossary

Related Projects

• NASA TMR (tmbwg.github.io/turbmodels) — turbulence model validation databases
• ERCOFTAC Classic Collection (cfd.mace.manchester.ac.uk/ercoftac) — 80+ turbulent validation cases
• CFDBench (github.com/ricardodpcosta/CFDBench) — analytical verification cases
• MASA (github.com/manufactured-solutions/MASA) — C++ MMS library
• ExactPack (github.com/lanl/ExactPack) — exact solutions for verification
• JHTDB (turbulence.idies.jhu.edu) — DNS/LES turbulence databases
• fieldcompare (github.com/dglaeser/fieldcompare) — field comparison Python package

How to Cite

If you use cfd-vv-suite in your research, please cite it as:

@misc{cfdvvsuite2026,
  author       = {Puzikova, Valeria},
  title        = {cfd-vv-suite: Open Test Suite for CFD Verification and Validation},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {GitHub},
  doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.21462233},
  howpublished = {\\url{https://github.com/vvp-cfd/cfd-vv-suite}}
}

See CITATION.cff for the Citation File Format version.

Key Concepts

• Verification: checking that equations are solved correctly (comparison with analytical/MMS solutions, grid convergence analysis).
• Validation: checking that the right equations are solved (comparison with experimental/DNS data).
• Case-as-data: case description in YAML + CSV format, independent of the solver.
• Solver-agnostic: the tool works with any solver capable of producing CSV/VTK output.

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