FLUENT

FLUENT is a computational fluid dynamics solver that provides a wide array of advanced physical models for turbulence, combustion, and multiphase applications.

GAMBIT is a preprocessor for Fluent.

Installed on pople.

Pople release 6.2

Prepare a batch job containing commands to

Set up the module command.
Load the fluent module
```
module load fluent
```
Run fluent, using a command similar to:
```
fluent [version] -g -p -tx -i sample.input
```
where version can be "2d", "2ddp", etc., ( see General usage below) and x is the number of processors that you want to use.

See a sample job.

Fluent general usage

To start fluent, type:

fluent [version] [-help] [options]

fluent -v lists the available versions, e.g.:

fluent - help lists all the options. One important option is -g, which disables the graphical user interface.

Use the text user interface. It has a hierarchical menu of commands. Once you have started Fluent, hitting <return> displays a list of the commands available at that level. Top level commands are: adapt, display, define, file, grid, plot, report, solve, surface, view, and exit.

Entering one of these commands takes you into that command's submenu. The prompt changes to indicate where you are in the menu hierarchy. Again, typing <return> lists all available (sub)commands at that level. For example, entering the view command, and then hitting <return> produces this list: (user input in italics)

> view
/view> <return>
auto-scale         delete-view       read-views
camera/            list-views        save-view
default-view       restore-view      write-views

The "/" after "camera" in the above list indicates that "camera" is not a command but another submenu. The remaining choices from the view menu are commands. Typing "camera" at the "/view>" prompt produces this:

/view> camera
/view/camera> <return>

dolly-camera        position          up-vector
field               projection        zoom-camera
orbit-camera        roll-camera       
pan-camera          target

FLUENT

Pople release 6.2

Fluent general usage

See also