Ansys-fluent

Installed versions

Resource	Version
Dardel/cpe23.12	23.1, 21.2

General information

Ansys/Fluent is a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software. Fluent is a general-purpose CFD code based on the finite volume method on a collocated grid. As of 2012 KTH have made a joint purchase of ANSYS (in which Fluent is one component).

How to use Ansys/Fluent on PDC machines

In order to use ANSYS Fluent at PDC you need to: 1. Have an account at PDC. 2. Check with the Ansys license owner at your department to allow running Ansys/Fluent at PDC 3. Contact KTH if you have problems/questions with Ansys/Fluent licenses. Use command module load PDC module avail fluent to list all available versions and make sure that the correct version is loaded in the job script. If there is no same (compatible) version as that creating the .cas file, please contact PDC (support@pdc.kth.se). For more details, look at Ansys web page: http://www.ansys.com/

How to use

Submitting a Fluent job on Dardel

Before preparing your script, you need to make a journal file to give tasks to Fluent. It should be in the same directory as your job subbmission script.

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# SAMPLE JOURNAL FILE

read case file (*.cas) that had previously been prepared file/read-case fluent.cas

read data file (*.dat) in case you are starting simulation from a saved file

comment it if you start from zero

file/read-data mycase.dat

run 10 iterations

solve/iterate 10

write data

file/write-data results.dat

exit fluent

exit yes

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Then you can use the following script for running Ansys/Fluent on Dardel: Then you can submit your job using sbatch sbatch fluent_run.sh