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So, now that I'm finished with the conference, I've been working on planning out all of the remainder of the programming and computations that I need to do in order to finish my dissertation. Today, I went through and made a detailed list of the steps, so as to have an idea of how much effort this was actually going to take.

The list: (Yeah, I know it's a bit cryptic.)

2-D cylinder calculations in OpenFOAM. (Purpose: confirm that OpenFOAM is accurate; input for next step.)

• create mesh with solid-wall, symmetry, and in/out boundary conditions.
• calculation and output of secondary field variables: convection, etc.
• run calculations.
• check calculations for reasonableness.

Loading results from 2-D cylinder calculations. (Purpose: input for next step.)

• reading grid positions from grid file.
• reading field variables from field files.
• converting to appropriate representation for filtering.
• calculating surface force distribution for convergence tests.
• converting and writing out appropriate representation for plotting.

Filtering results from 2-D cylinder calculations. (Purpose: baseline for viscous-dissipation comparison; input for next step.)

• determine appropriate terms to calculate.
• calculating filtered terms.
• calculating secondary terms from filtered terms.
• calculating results for comparison: wake defect, dissipation, etc.
• output of results for comparison.
• output of fields in a format for plotting and later processing.
• reasonableness confirmation on results.

2-D Model field processor. (Purpose: input for next step.)

• input of fields from filtering processor.
• simplification of models as appropriate.
• conversion to appropriate new grid.
• output of fields in format for input into OpenFOAM.

2-D filtered calculations in OpenFOAM. (Purpose: well-resolved exact-model calculations.)

• create mesh with appropriate boundary conditions.
• check that forcing term produces reasonable results.
• calculation and output of viscous dissipation, etc.
• run calculations.

2-D postprocessing of OpenFOAM output. (Purpose: conversion to usable results; quantitative comparisons, etc.)

• reading grid positions and field variables from OpenFOAM files.
• computation of net results: wake defect, net dissipation, etc.
• output of net results in format for comparison.
• output of fields in a format for plotting.

2-D postprocessing of old output. (Purpose: comparisons of viscous dissipation for inexact models.)

• computation of viscous dissipation.
• output of net results in format for comparison.
• output of fields in a format for plotting.

3-D sphere calculations in OpenFOAM. (Purpose: exact calculations for producing models, comparison, etc.)

• create mesh with solid-wall, symmetry, and in/out boundary conditions.
• calculation and output of secondary field variables: convection, etc.
• run calculations.
• check calculations for reasonableness.

Loading results from 3-D sphere calculations. (Purpose: input for next step.)

• reading grid positions from grid file.
• reading field variables from field files.
• converting to appropriate representation for filtering.
• calculating surface force distribution for convergence tests.
• converting and writing out appropriate representation for plotting.

Filtering results from 3-D sphere calculations. (Purpose: exact results for comparison; finding model terms.)

• determine appropriate terms to calculate.
• calculating filtered terms.
• calculating secondary terms from filtered terms.
• calculating results for comparison: wake defect, dissipation, etc.
• output of results for comparison.
• output of fields in a format for plotting and later processing.
• reasonableness confirmation on results.

3-D Model field processor. (Purpose: input for next step.)

• input of axisymmetric fields from filtering processor.
• simplification of models as appropriate.
• conversion to appropriate new grid, going from axisymmetric to 3-D.
• output of 3-D fields in format for input into OpenFOAM.

3-D filtered calculations in OpenFOAM. (Purpose: calculate the actual results of the models; generate main results.)

• create mesh with appropriate boundary conditions.
• calculation and output of viscous dissipation, etc.
• run calculations.

3-D postprocessing. (Purpose: evaluation of results, conversion to usable form.)

• reading grid positions and field variables from OpenFOAM files.
• computation of net results: wake defect, net dissipation, etc.
• output of net results in format for comparison.
• slicing of appropriate field cross-sections for plotting.
• output of sliced fields in a format for plotting.

My guess is that that's probably going to take somewhere between a half-day and a day of work for each bullet point, on average. Some of them are near-duplicates between the 2-D and 3-D, which means that a lot of it can be reused from one to the other, but the reuse is still not trivial.

I'm trying to not stress about how many bullet points there are.