Fluent Inc. Software - Instructions for uninstalling a Fluent Product and shortcut on the Windows platform |
Instructions for uninstalling a Fluent Product and shortcut on the Windows platform<br>See this document on the proper procedure for uninstalling a Fluent product and... |
FLUENT 6 - Instructions for Compiling or Interpreting UDF's |
See the links below for instructions:<br>COMPILING UDF'S<br><br>Compiling UDF's running FLUENT serial:<br><br><a target=_blank... |
Configuring FLUENT 6 to run in Network Parallel (WINDOWS) |
<br>Please see this document:<br><br><a target=_blank... |
How do I obtain my Host Name and Host ID? (WINDOWS) |
Instructions for obtaining the Host Name and Host ID on your Windows computer are provided on the installation web pages linked below.<br><br><a target=_blank... |
How do I obtain my Disk Serial ID? (WINDOWS) |
Instructions for obtaining the Disk Serial ID for your Windows computer can be accessed from the links below.<br>Visit this site for specific informaiton:<br><br><a... |
How do I install the FLEXlm License Manager? (WINDOWS) |
Instructions for installing the FLEXlm license manager on your Windows computer can be accessed from the links below.<br><br>Please see this document for... |
Fluent Inc Product - License Error and Resolution |
Error statements such as the following are discussed and resolutions offered in the links shown below.<br><br>Cannot Find License File<br>Cannot find SERVER hostname in network... |
Fluent Inc Product - Windows Startup Error: The name specified is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. |
The environment variables are not set and the operating system cannot find the appropriate .exe file it needs to run the program.<br><br>Resolution: Set your environment... |
Fluent Inc Product - Windows Startup Error: Invalid (inconsistent) license key |
This error mesage indicates that either the licensing software has not been installed or the the FLEXlm License Manager has not been started or setup properly.<br><br>See this... |
FIDAP: Solution Monitor not working. |
Solution has not begun reporting convergence information even though FIDAP has performed many iterations.<br>FIDAP needs a scratch directory called "tmp" where as the default... |
FLUENT 5 - Client-server mode, i.e. local Cortex and remote Fluent process on a Linux box: "RPC: connection refused" |
On a local machine, I start Fluent using the command "fluent" (without 2d or 3d; on Windows, add " -serv").<br>I choose "File---Run", enter... |
ICEPAK FAQ: How to trouble shoot non convergence or slow convergence of a forced convection problem |
Sometimes while solving forced convection problems the residuals flatten and never approach the convergence criteria. Following is a systematic approach to troublr shooting this.<br>Natural... |
FLUENT 6 - Accessing the zones by names in a UDF |
now there is no easy way to acces zones by their names in UDF. This is the consequence of conversion between zone ID and zone name that takes place only at the scheme level. It is highly desirable... |
FLUENT 5 - How to make contour plots of difference in pressures (or any other variable) in two data files |
Problem Statement:<br><br>It is often necessary to make a close comparison between<br>the results contained in two data files. One way to do<br>this is to subtract the... |
Reynolds analogy |
Many people confuse heat transfer coefficient (htc) based on Reynolds Analogy and htc based on standard wall functions for temperature.<br>Reynolds analogy:<br>Reynold's analogy... |
FLUENT 5 - Specifying a transient variation for the Heat flux on a radiator boundary condition |
(This is one of the workarounds mentioned in CR 11746 for Specifying transient heat flux on<br>a radiator -bc zone)<br><br>The Scheme file enclosed below describes a somehow... |
FLUENT 5 - Meshing Algorithm to mitigate right triangles (or cut squares) in Hypermesh surface mesh. |
Hypermesh surfaces meshes have a tendency to be rectangles divided up into triangles. If the quadrilaterals are actually squares, the resulting surface mesh can create problems for volume meshing... |
FLUENT 5 - How to export the ascii database format from Hypermesh to read surface meshes into TGrid/Fluent. |
Clients will want to export from Hypermesh the meshes in ascii database format in order to keep the groupings and surface names. Below explains how to select that format.<br> To Export... |
FLUENT 6 - Report - Discrete Phase - Histogram: Would like to write histogram to a file, or at least print data |
Most histograms can be printed as text (numbers) to the FLUENT console. This is not the case for histograms generated via Report - Discrete Phase - Histogram, which is a distinct limitation in... |
FLUENT 5 - startup failure on Novell network: Wrong hostid (hostid is 000000000000) |
After connecting a new NT machine, where FLUENT and the license server is installed, to a Novell network, the startup of FLUENT failed with the following message in the Debug.log... |