FLUENT
FLUENT is a computational fluid dynamics solver that provides a wide array of advanced physical models for turbulence, combustion, and multiphase applications.
Installed on blacklight.
Blacklight Usage
- 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.
- Submit the job with the qsub command.
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
