Agenda

15.0 Release

User Defined Functions

in ANSYS Fluent
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 Welcome!
Welcome to the Advanced ANSYS FLUENT UDF training course!
This training course covers the topics of how to customize ANSYS FLUENT
via user-defined functions
It is intended for experienced ANSYS FLUENT users
Course Objectives:
– Why and how to customize the FLUENT solver
– Introduction to the FLUENT data structure and utility macros
– Introduction to the top-level macros for accessing FLUENT data
– Power CFD programming with user-defined scalars and user-defined memories
– Parallelizing UDFs
– Workbench Parameters and UDFs
– Accessing the data structure in multiphase models

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 Agenda
8:30 – 9:30 Lecture 1 – Introduction and FLUENT Data Structure
9:30 – 9:45 Lecture 2 – Compilation and Interpretation
9:45 – 10:00 Break
10:00 – 11:00 Lecture 3 – UDF Composition
11:00 – 12:00 Tutorials
12:00 – 1:00 Lunch
1:00 – 1:30 Lecture 4 – User Defined Memories and Scalars
1:30 – 2:15 Tutorials
2:15 – 3:00 Lecture 5 – Parallelizing UDFs
3:00 – 3:30 Lecture 6 – Workbench Parameters and UDFs
3:30 – 4:30 Tutorials
4:30 – 5:00 Lecture 7 – UDFs for Multiphase Flow (optional)

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 Table of Contents
1. Introduction L1-1
1. Introduction L1-2 5. Parallelizing UDFs L5-1
2. Basics of UDFs L1-6 1. Introduction L5-2
3. Introduction to the C Programming Language L1-12 2. Parallel FLUENT Architecture L5-4
4. CFD Programming in FLUENT and Data structures L1-23 3. Example Problem L5-5
4. Partitioning L5-10
2. Compilation and Interpretation of UDFs L2-1 5. Looping Macros L5-12
1. Compilation versus interpretation L2-2 6. Global Reduction L5-16
2. Compiling within the Workbench L2-6 7. Inter-process Communications L5-20
8. Necessity to Parallelize a UDF L5-25
3. Composing UDFs L3-1 9. Troubleshooting L5-28
1. DEFINE_PROFILE L3-2
10. Summary L5-30
2. DEFINE_SOURCE and source terms L3-10
3. DEFINE_INIT L3-15 6. Workbench Parameter and UDF L6-1
4. DEFINE_ADJUST L3-18 5. Input Parameter in UDF L6-3
5. DEFINE_EXECUTE_AT_END L3-20 6. Report Output Parameter L6-7
6. DEFINE_PROPERTY L3-22 7. Output Parameter Defined within UDF L6-9
7. DEFINE_ON_DEMAND L3-27
8. DEFINE_DELTAT L3-29
9. Additional Macros L3-32 7. UDFs for Multiphase Models L7-1
10. Appendix: User-defined I/O functions L3-35 1. Additional Data Structure and Multi-domain concept L7-3
2. Domain/Thread Structure L7-4
4. User-defined Scalars and User-defined Memories L4-1 3. Looping macros for Multiphase L7-13
1. UDM L4-2
2. UDS L4-4
3. Gradient Vector Macro L4-11

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