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1 Starting and Executing

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1.1 Starting

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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-11.1.1 Single-Precision and Double-Precision Solvers. . . . . . . . . . . 1-11.1.2 Starting

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on a UNIX System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-21.1.3 Starting

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on a Windows System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-51.1.4 Remote Simulation Facility (RSF). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-61.1.5 Startup Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-71.2 Remote Execution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-91.2.1 Overview and Limitations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-91.2.2 Steps for Running on a Remote Machine. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-91.2.3 Starting the Solver Manually on the Remote Machine. . . . . . 1-101.2.4 Executing Remotely by Reading a Case File. . . . . . . . . . . . 1-101.3 Batch Execution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-111.3.1 Background Execution on UNIX Systems. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-111.3.2 Background Execution on Windows Systems. . . . . . . . . . . 1-131.3.3 Batch Execution Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-141.4 Checkpointing a

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Simulation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-151.5 Cleaning Up Processes From a

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Simulation. . . . . . . . . . . . 1-161.6 Exiting the Program. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-17

2 Graphical User Interface (GUI)2-1

2.1 GUI Components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-12.1.1 Console. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-12.1.2 Dialog Boxes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-52.1.3 Panels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-10

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2.1.4 Graphics Display Windows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-162.2 Customizing the Graphical User Interface (UNIX Systems Only). . . . . 2-192.3 Using the GUI Help System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-212.3.1 Panel Help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-212.3.2 Context-Sensitive Help (UNIX Only). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-222.3.3 Opening the User’s Guide Table of Contents. . . . . . . . . . . 2-222.3.4 Opening the User’s Guide Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-222.3.5 Opening the Reference Guide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-222.3.6 Help on Help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-252.3.7 Help for Text Interface Commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-252.3.8 Accessing the Other Manuals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-252.3.9 Accessing the User Services Center Web Site. . . . . . . . . . . 2-252.3.10 Accessing the Fluent Online Technical Support Web Site. . . . . 2-262.3.11 Obtaining a Listing of Other

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License Users. . . . . . . 2-262.3.12 Version and Release Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-27

3 Text User Interface (TUI)3-1

3.1 Text Menu System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-13.1.1 Command Abbreviation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-33.1.2

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Evaluation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-33.1.3 Aliases. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-43.2 Text Prompt System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-43.2.1 Numbers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-53.2.2 Booleans. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-53.2.3 Strings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-53.2.4 Symbols. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-53.2.5 Filenames. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-53.2.6 Lists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-63.2.7 Evaluation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-7

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3.2.8 Default Value Binding. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-73.3 Interrupts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-73.4 System Commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-83.4.1 System Commands for UNIX-based Operating Systems. . . . . 3-83.4.2 System Commands for Windows Operating Systems. . . . . . . 3-93.5 Text Menu Input from Character Strings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-93.6 Using the Text Interface Help System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-11

4 Reading and Writing Files4-1

4.1 Shortcuts for Reading and Writing Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-24.1.1 Default File Suﬃxes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-24.1.2 Binary Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-34.1.3 Detecting File Format. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-34.1.4 Recent File List. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-44.1.5 Reading and Writing Compressed Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-44.1.6 Tilde Expansion (UNIX Systems Only). . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-64.1.7 Automatic Numbering of Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-64.1.8 Disabling the Overwrite Conﬁrmation Prompt. . . . . . . . . . 4-74.2 Reading Mesh Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-74.2.1 Reading

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Mesh Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-74.2.2 Reading Surface Meshes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-74.2.3 Reading and Importing

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Mesh Files. . . . 4-84.2.4 Reading

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Unstructured Mesh Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-84.2.5 Importing

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Structured Mesh Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-84.2.6 Importing

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