Preliminary design and application of CFD software automatic testing platform

To improve the efficiency of the development of large scale CFD software, an automatic testing platform was designed preliminarily for our CFD solver HyperFLOW. The platform works on MySQL database. Through the communication between the GUI on a desktop computer and the management module on a remote server, the platform carried out the automatic testing jobs on a remote PC-cluster, and then the numerical results were automatically transferred back to the platform for the study of verification and validation. The main idea and the basic frame structure were introduced firstly, and then the database design and the GUI design were discussed in details. Three test cases were presented to demonstrate the function of the platform. This platform can be applied for any CFD solver, if the input interface of the solver is unified in the format of this platform.