Modeling joule heating in a platinum tip plate for glass forehearth |
In glass forehearth applications, clients want to model the platinum tip of a bushing block for a glass forehearth. The platinum tip has several holes through which molten glass fibers are drawn.... |
Exporting coordinates of vertices from Gambit |
There might be a need to export coordinates of vertices from Gambit. This can be done via journal file.<br>Journal file attached at the end of following notes when run in Gambit would write... |
Improving solution for heat transfer with tetrahedral mesh |
The solution accuracy for heat transfer prediction for laminar flow in channels with full tetrahedral mesh can be lower compared to a full hexahedral mesh. This is true even when the second order... |
Use TUI commands to Patch variables for FLUENT 6.1 |
Several CRs (1451, 2353, 5676, C8446) listed the interest of users in being able to use only TUI commands to Patch variables on a list of zones.<br>The need is for being able to run batch... |
compute the local max/min values of a variable on an entity |
How do I get the max/min value of temperature on a specific entity. The contour plot shows the global max/min values.<br><br>Follow the steps:<br><br>- have active only... |
How to run GAMBIT in batch mode with existing journal file |
How does one run GAMBIT without the gui<br>gambit -inp myjournal.jou -id ident<br><br>where ident is the name of the database<br>myjournal.jou is the name of the journal... |
Tackling High pressure flow simulation in Fluent |
Experience divergence when solving a high pressure choked flow<br>The procedure for tackling this type of high pressure flow is simple but not always intuitive. Here are the strategies that... |
joule heating |
Model joule heating in a curved rod<br>UDF Written<br><br>Sample case and data files are available from ww<br><br>/* UDF to compute heat source from joule heating of... |
FLUENT 6 - Error: open_udf_library: The system cannot find the path specified - Windows |
You first read in your compiled UDF using FLUENT serial. The libudf directory once loaded in serial is hardcoded in the case file. When you attempt to open it in parallel it cannot locate the UDF... |
FLUENT Hangs When Trying to Read in a Compiled UDF using Network Parallel - Windows |
There are a couple of reasons why this might happen<br><br>Please see this document for a resolution:<br><br><a target=_blank... |
FLUENT hangs when trying to read an Interpreted UDF in Network Parallel - Windows |
FLUENT hangs when trying to read an Interpreted UDF in Network Parallel - Windows<br>Please see this document for a resolution:<br><br><a target=_blank... |
'nmake' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file - Windows |
This error message is a result of either not having a Fluent certified compiler installed not having the Visual Studio environment variables recognized<br><br><br>Please see this... |
The network path was not found - Windows |
This error will occur when running Fluent parallel across a network and the FLUENT_INC directory is not shared.<br>See this document on how to cofigure Fluent to run in network... |
Error 0005: Access Denied - Windows |
This error message usually indicates that RSHD is not configured properly.<br><br>Please see these documents for a resolution:<br><br><a target=_blank... |
Opening up a case file in FLUENT Parallel is very slow |
It could be that your network is not setup properly.<br>Please see this document for a resolution:<br><br><a target=_blank... |
Unable to spawn all nodes... Says the computer is "unix" |
When trying to spawn to a remote Windows computer you get the error message similar to what is below:<br><br>Unable to spawn Node 1 on machine computer2" (unix).<br>Node 0... |
Unable to Find Exceed XServer |
When trying to launch Gambit or Fidap the error message, Unable to Find Exceed XServer, pops up.<br>Make sure that you have installed Exceed. The version of Exceed which is currently... |
Launching GAMBIT |
How do I launch GAMBIT as there is no icon on the Programs Menu?<br>Please see this document for a instructions:<br><br><a target=_blank... |
Installing and Configuring a New Floating/Network License - Windows |
How do I set up my new network/floating license?<br>Please see this document for instructions:<br><br><a target=_blank... |
POLYFLOW - I get the message "Number of constraints exceeded !". |
When running a large simulation case, or a case that involves a lot of constraints (boundary conditions), POLYFLOW may be aborted before the first iteration, with the error message "Number... |
Setting up a "Client" Machine to access a license server - Windows |
A client machine is any machine on the network that is not the license server. In other words, the Client machine does not and should not have FLEXlm installed and configured. In order to access... |
fidapgl80.exe - Application Error |
When reading in a file in the Fidap GUI using Windows XP this error message comes up and Fidap terminates:<br><br>The instruction at "0x5f51e783" referenced memory at... |
Vendor daemon can't talk to lmgrd - UNIX |
When starting the license manager on Solaris systems you receive this error<br><br>The user's "file descriptor" limit is set too low.<br><br>(FluentLm)... |
Invalid system date - UNIX |
There are files in / or /etc with dates that are newer than today. This is usually the result of setting the system clock back.<br><br>Resolution: Find the offending files with the... |
Installing and Configuring a Floating / Network License - UNIX |
How do I install and configure a floating.netowrk license on my UNIX/Linux Computer?<br>See this document:<br><br><a target=_blank... |