GSOC '26 - Ankit Vashisth

[ankitv06]

Hi everyone

I’m Ankit, a third year IT student. I’m interested in contributing to preCICE through GSoC 2026.

Background: C, C++, Python, MATLAB, Compiler Design (handling with ASTs), Software Engineering

What I’ve done so far: I’ve spent time understanding the preCICE codebase and submitted my few PRs –

#2513 [OPEN] – addresses issue #2442(allowing convergence measures to use written but non-exchanged data). This involved modifying the coupling scheme configuration to relax a validation restriction and adding an integration test.

#2487 [MERGED] – addresses #2248, renames the Fortran functions for consistency with C/C++ naming scheme.

Project Interests: Clean multi-step configuration, Error messages with configuration context

Looking forward to contributing more. Happy to receive any feedback on the PR.

Best, Ankit

[ankitv06]

Hi all,

Since last time, I opened another PR #2517 which prevents participant usage after it has encountered a non-recoverable exception due to, let’s say, communication buildup failure in initialize().

I also performed the entry test for the project Clean multi-step configuration –
Building preCICE from source -

Running the elastic tube 1D tutorial –

Simulations generated –

Modifying the precice-config.xml -
removing <data name="CrossSectionLength"... /> to trigger error

Locate and modify the error message in the source code –

Rebuilt and installed –

New error message upon running the solvers –

Looking forward to more contributions. Open for feedbacks.