Students Guide for Installation Popular CFD Software
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1) Commercial CFD Solvers without Automatic Meshing
How to Install ANSYS CFD Solvers
- There are CFD solvers which are widely used in both academia and industries
- Students can use up to maximum 500,000 cells for CFD simulations using ANSYS FLUENT
- They provide a free version for students
- Refer to the user guide for CFD modeling
- Check your system hardware before installing CFD analysis software
- Students can Tecplot for post-processing of CFD results. Tecplot has good control over streamlines and vectors.
Application and Modules:
- Geometry Tools: ANSYS Space claim, ANSYS Work Bench
- Meshing platform: ANSYS Mesher, ICEM CFD, FLUENT Mesher
- CFD Solver: FLUENT, CFX
- Post-processing: CFD- Post, ANSYS EnSight
Download the Latest ANSYS Students Version
Click here To Download the Latest ANSYS Student Version:
- ANSYS FLUENT 2023 R1 :
- It is valid till 1st March 2024
- Size of file around 10 GB Zipped files
- Zip in a separate folder and unzip
- Click on the set-up of the file.
- ANSYS will be automatically installed in C drive
- ANSYS FLUENT 2022 R2:
- it is valid till 31 July 2023
- To get download files, refer to the Prior Release Section
Requirement of your Laptop or PC for ANSYS FLUENT 2022
Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows 10, 64-bit
Minimum Hardware Requirements:
- Processor(s): Workstation class
- RAM: 4 GB
- Hard Drive space: 25 GB
- Installation in C Drive: C:/” drive present
- Graphics card and driver: Professional workstation class 3-D, Discrete Graphics card is recommended for larger end simulations
- OpenGL-capable
New Update in ANSYS FLUENT 2023 R1
- Direct ECAD workflow for PCB: New workflow for printed circuit board (PCB) that enables the import of an ECAD directly from the Fluent interface without the need to use additional products
- Full Release of Multi-GPU Solver: The multi-solver has added support for species transport, non-stiff reacting flows, enhanced LES
numerics, sliding mesh and compressible flows - Models for Hydrogen Value Chain: PEM and Alkaline electrolysis models for green hydrogen production and extended PEMFC and SOFC
Fuel Cells models for hydrogen consumption - Virtual Blade Model for Turbomachinery: A Virtual Blade Model (VBM) replaces 3D rotors with actuator disks by adding their effect using the source terms in the governing equations
- Modeling of High-speed Numerics in Aero Mode: Access High-Speed Numerics (HSN) within FluentAero Workspace with seamless setup and improved robustness and convergence for all flight regimes
- Embedded Parametric / Morphing in the car Model: A new workflow for parametric design optimization
and morphing embedded in the Fluent interface - Built-in Aero-Optical Workflow:
ANSYS User Guide
2) CFD Solvers with Automatic Meshing
- Star CCM+ and CONVERGE are also used as a popular CFD solver in many automotive industries
- They do not require a separate meshing platform. It directly generates dynamic grid adaptive mesh based on gradients of flow variables.
- Siemens provides free access for universities students and faculty to Simcentre STAR-CCM+
- Students can download Star CCM+ by clicking here: University: Star CCM+
- COMSOL has the Lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) in their solver
- Students or faculty can contact to get a trial version
- Students can download tutorials of CONVERGE
3) Open source CFD Solvers (Free Software)
- OpenFOAM is a popular open-source CFD software for both academia and industries
- This CFD solver has no licensing fee
- Download OpenFOAM CFD tools for Linux or Ubuntu
- For block meshing creates structures meshing. Refer to this for more details: blockMesh for Different Geometries
- Code Saturn is also a free and open-source CFD software
Application and Modules:
- Geometry Tools: OpenFOAM, SALOME, FreeCAD
- Meshing platform: blockMesh, SnapyHexMesh, cfMesh
- CFD Solver: icoFOAM, simpleFOAM, interFOAM etc.
- Post-processing: ParaFoam, gnuPlot, foamtoTecplot
User Guide of Open Foam
3.1 How to Install Open FOAM in Windows
3.1 Install Ubuntu for Programming Environment
- The first step to installing Open FOAM, your computer must have a programming environment to run the C++ libraries of Open FOAM
- You can create it by installing Ubuntu either within windows 10 or a separate operating system
- Watch videos : click on the links
- Then download and install OpenFOAM after copying files in Ubuntu
3.2 Download and installation of Open FOAM Files
- Download OpenFOAM-v2012: OpenFOAM-v2012-windows10.tgz
- Start Bash on Ubuntu by typing bash in the search toolbar
- Click on the Desktop app Bash on Ubuntu on Windows
- In the bash-terminal,
- Copy “OpenFOAM-v2012-windows10.tgz ” from the Download folder to the local bash-environment by entering the following command:
cp -ar /mnt/c/Users/<USER>/Downloads/OpenFOAM-v2012-windows10.tgz
- Copy “OpenFOAM-v2012-windows10.tgz ” from the Download folder to the local bash-environment by entering the following command:
-
- You need to replace the string with your own user name while copying the file: here shown by the user pgh
- The final dot (.)need to specify the current location
- Untar the OpenFOAM installation file by running the following command
sudo tar -xvzf OpenFOAM-v2012-windows10.tgz -C /opt/ sudo chown -R $USER /opt/OpenFOAM
Enter your Linux password to allow the process to start. if tar is not installed in your Linux version, you have to install it using the command:
sudo apt install tar
- You can Install the additional dependencies
sudo apt install bison flex m4
3.2 Configure the bash-shell
- Once only you need to Run the following command to set the OpenFOAM working environment
echo "source /opt/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-v2012/etc/bashrc" >> ~/.bashrc
source $HOME/.bashrc
3.3 Checking of Open FOAM Installation
- OpenFOAM installation needs to verify by running any one OpenFOAM tutorial
- You have to copy any tutorial ( e.g. cavity) to the Ubuntu folder
- Enter command in the terminal to make a mesh of geometry (blockMesh)
- Run it by typing: icoFoam
mkdir -p /mnt/c/Users/<USER>/tutorial
cd /mnt/c/Users/<USER>/tutorial
cp -ar $FOAM_TUTORIALS/incompressible/icoFoam/cavity/cavity .
cd cavityNew
blockMesh
icoFoam
2.4 Installation of Para View and FoamToTecplot
- Install Para View to visualize mesh files, a GUI-based post-processing tool
- The case can be visually checked using Para View.
- You can download the Para view and install it within Windows 10: Download Para view
- Click here : Userguide of Paraview
- Third Pary post-processing tools like FLUENT and Tecplot can be used for OpenFOAM.
- You must know text command for them:
- Foam data can be exported to Tecplot: watch the video
Watch Training YouTube Video for ANSYS
1) Geometry in Space Claim and CFD Flow Engineering
- CFD Modeling of Flow-Through A Porous Medium
- CFD Modeling of a water turbine
- Modeling of coal combustion using ANSYS FLUENT
- Modeling of Battery in ANSYS Platforms
Geometry and Meshing in ANSYS ICEM CFD
- 2D Geometry and meshing in ICEM CFD
- 3D Geometry and Meshing in ICEM CFD, checking the mesh in ANSYS FLUENT
2) Click on the link to get CFD learning videos of ANSYS FLUENT
- Analyzing Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI) in Fluent and Structural Mechanical – Part I
- Analyzing FSI with Fluent and Mechanical – Part II
- Fluent Workspace Introduction
- ANSYS Meshing:
- Complete guide to Meshing-to-Postprocessing Workflow
- Complete Meshing-to-Postprocessing Workflow
- Fault-Tolerant Meshing Workflow
- Introduction to Overset Meshing
- Watertight Geometry Meshing Workflow
- Dynamic Mesh Problem for a Piston and Reed Valve – Part I
- Dynamic Mesh Problem for a Piston and Reed Valve Part II
- How to use ANSYS FLUENT for Industrial Applications
- Burning Glass Effect Modeling Using the Monte Carlo Radiation Model
- Describing Non-premixed Combustion using the Steady Flamelet Model
- Diffusion Controlled Reacting Flow in a Can Combustor
- ECM Battery Model
- Efficient Modelling of Spray Breakup using VOF-to-DPM Transition
- Evaluating the Performance of a Centrifugal Pump with a Volute
- Introduction to the GEKO Turbulence Model: Part I
- Introduction to the GEKO Turbulence Model: Part II , Tuning the Model Constants
- Modeling Robotic Arm Airflow Using Relative Motion of Overset Meshes
- Modeling Robotic Arm Airflow Using Relative Motion of Overset Meshes (19.3)
- Nozzle Design Optimization: Part 1
- Nozzle Design Optimization: Part 2
- Overset Meshing and Dynamic Meshes
- PEM Fuel Cell (PEMFC) Model Overview
- Scene and Animation Creation
- Simulating Multiphase Mixing within a Sparging Tank: Part 1
- Using the Adjoint Solver to Optimize the Shape of a Duct in a Bounded Space: Part I
- Using the Adjoint Solver to Optimize the Shape of a Duct in a Bounded Space: Part II
- Overview of the Mapped Interface Technique for CHT Simulations
- Restarting a Coupled Analysis in Fluent and Mechanical
- System Coupling: One-Way Data Transfer
- Diffusion Controlled Reacting Flow in a Can Combustor
- Fluent: Evaluating the Performance of a Centrifugal Pump with a Volute
- Introduction to the GEKO Turbulence Model: Part I
- Introduction to the GEKO Turbulence Model Part II: Tuning the Model Constants
- Lifeboat Launch – Overset & Dynamic Meshes with the Volume of Fluid Model
- Scene and Animation Creation
- Simulating Multiphase Mixing within a Sparging Tank :Part 1
- Simulating Multiphase Mixing within a Sparging Tank: Part 2
- Using the Six Degrees of Freedom (Six DOF) Solver
- Using the Ansys Fluent Turbo Workflow
- Demonstration of the Fluent 2022 R1 Beta Materials Processing Workspace
- Overview of the Fluent 2022 R1 Beta Materials Processing Workspace
- Post Processing
- ANSYS Ensight: Postprocessing a Fluent Case in EnSight
- ANSYS Fluent: Basic Post-processing
- Postprocessing Simulation Results on Irregular Surfaces
- Conducting a Fluent Airflow Simulation on Clean NACA0012 Airfoil by FLUENT Icing
- Post with Fluent Icing: Postprocessing Using Viewmerical and CFD: