Introduction of background knowledge regarding flow physics and CFD as well as detailed information about the use of AcuSolve and what specific options do.
This section gives a brief description of a general workflow of a typical CFD process. It describes in short the problem
description, pre-processing, solving and post-processing aspects of a CFD workflow.
This section details the several sub-categories of pre-processing in AcuSolve, including the use of user interface, solver parameters, model parameters and mesh generation.
This section details the geometry parameters such as geometry import and graphics window controls. It also involves discussion
on boundary condition types, volume and surface parameters available in AcuSolve.
This section details a brief overview of meshing aspects in general and then provides various meshing attributes available
in AcuConsole. This section also provides details on meshing process in AcuConsole.
This section details the AcuSolve launch settings, input file structure, checking the compatibility of the parameters using AcuPrep, parallel processing model, various solution files generated by AcuSolve and the .log file structure.
As an alternative to the GUI based launch of AcuSolve, once you have the input file and mesh files (MESH.DIR) the AcuSolve solver can be launched in batch process from the AcuSolve command prompt.
This section details the post-processing tools of AcuSolve, namely AcuProbe, which gives graphical representation of parameters and AcuFieldView, which gives the detailed description of simulations, such as plots and animations.
Collection of AcuSolve simulation cases for which results are compared against analytical or experimental results to demonstrate the accuracy
of AcuSolve results.
Introduction of background knowledge regarding flow physics and CFD as well as detailed information about the use of AcuSolve and what specific options do.
This section details the several sub-categories of pre-processing in AcuSolve, including the use of user interface, solver parameters, model parameters and mesh generation.
This section details the AcuSolve launch settings, input file structure, checking the compatibility of the parameters using AcuPrep, parallel processing model, various solution files generated by AcuSolve and the .log file structure.
AcuConsole is the graphical user interface (GUI) wrapper
for the AcuSolve solver.
After launching AcuSolve a folder is written out named
MESH.DIR containing mesh files and an input file containing the
solver commands. This input file can be edited directly for any appropriate changes in the
problem. The commands have the following general
syntax.
Where COMMAND is the name of the command, such as
ANALYSIS or MATERIAL_MODEL, qualifier is a mandatory
qualifier of the command, parameter1 to parameter are the optional parameters of the command
and value1 to valueN are the corresponding values of the parameters. Below is the
description of a simple pipe flow with the comparison between GUI and input file
commands.