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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.
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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 gives details on using the user interface of AcuSolve by describing several groupings of the parameters available for pre-processing.
The Problem Description branch under the Global Tree describes the general parameters of the simulation such as title, subtitle, analysis type and flow equation.
The goal of the Auto Solution Strategy branch is to completely automate the specification of all the solution strategy commands based on the minimum possible parameters defined in this section.
All of the properties of materials to be used in the simulation are defined in this branch.
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.
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.
This section details the various tools and utilities available in AcuSolve that make the solver user-friendly.
Collection of AcuSolve simulation cases for which results are compared against analytical or experimental results to demonstrate the accuracy of AcuSolve results.
AcuSolve command descriptions and corresponding examples.
AcuSolve utility programs covering preparatory and post-processing as well as user-defined functions and utility scripts.
Customization of AcuSolve allowing you to customize certain capabilities of the solver.
Instruction of the mesh generation capability in AcuConsole, a GUI based pre-processor for AcuSolve.
Customization of AcuConsole allowing you to improve your particular workflow.
Commands of AcuTrace, a particle tracer that runs as a post-processor to or a co-processor with AcuSolve.
Instructions to define additional solution quantities of AcuTrace called user equations.
Usage of AcuFieldView, an OEM version of Intelligent Light’s FieldView post-processing software.
Instruction of the AcuReport tool, a standalone post-processor batch tool used to generate a report from an AcuSolve solution database.
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