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Stichting SU2

Computational Fluid Dynamics and Optimization

Computational analysis tools have revolutionized the way we design engineering systems as a society, but most established codes are proprietary, unavailable, or prohibitively expensive for many users. The SU2 Foundation will change this, making multiphysics analysis and design optimization software free and publicly available, in a single place, without restriction on who can contribute to its creation and development. The SU2 Foundation is an educational and scientific not-for-profit that will bring together computational scientists and engineers through the SU2 Foundation platform. The SU2 Foundation develops, maintains, and supports a collection of C++ and Python-based software tools for performing Partial Differential Equation (PDE) analysis and solving PDE-constrained optimization problems. Through maintaining and improving the quality of software, documentation, and tutorials, and by growing the community of users and developers, the SU2 Foundation will ensure quality improvement of multiphysics software tools, accessible by everyone, for continued innovation in the engineering sciences.

python
c++

aerodynamics
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Multi-Disciplinary Optimization
Adjoint Design Optimization
Fluid Dynamics

Project ideas

6 ideas on its 2026 ideas page; of the 6 that state a difficulty: 4 medium, 2 hard. Sizes: 1 medium. 7 mentors named.

Project BP: Adding pressure-based solver medium hard
Project GPU: Continuation of GPU acceleration in SU2 medium
Project AMR: Quick Adaptive Mesh refinement for 2D testcases medium
Project CMPLX: Performance Optimization of Complex Arithmetic in SU2 medium
Project PIML: Towards physics-informed machine learning with SU2 hard
Project FWH: Generalizing FWH-Based Aeroacoustic Noise Prediction medium

Read the ideas page. Ideas are for scope reference; never copy one into a proposal.

History

In GSoC since 2024, 3 years. Projects per year: '24: 3, '25: 3, '26: 3.

On GitHub

7 repositories pushed to in the last year. Main languages: Python (3), C++ (1), GLSL (1), SCSS (1), Shell (1).

Links and channels

Website: https://su2foundation.org
Ideas page: https://su2code.github.io/gsoc/Introduction/
Contributor guide: https://su2code.github.io/gsoc/Participation/
Source code: https://github.com/su2code/SU2
Mailing list: https://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/su2/
Chat: https://su2devteam.slack.com

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