FUN3D Manual

Chapters

1. Introduction
   1. Background
   2. Capabilities
   3. Requirements
   4. Release History
   5. Request FUN3D
2. Installation
   1. Third-Party Libraries
   2. Compiling
3. Grid Generation
   1. 2D Grid Generation
   2. 3D Grid Generation
4. Pre/Post Processing
   1. Sequential Grid Processing
   2. Parallel Grid Processing
5. Analysis
   1. Flow Solver Namelist Input
   2. Running the Flow Solver
   3. Rotorcraft
   4. Hypersonics
   5. Time Accurate – Basics/Fixed Geometry
   6. Time Accurate – Moving Geometry
   7. Static Aeroelastic Coupling
   8. Ginput.faces Type Input
6. Adaptation and Error Estimation
   1. Capabilities
   2. Mesh Movement via Spring Analogy
   3. Requirements and Configuring to use refine
   4. Adjoint-Based Adaptation
   5. Gradient/Feature-Based Adaptation
   6. Error Estimation
7. Design
   1. Getting Started
   2. Setting Up rubber.data
   3. Geometry Parameterizations
   4. The Adjoint Solver
   5. Sensitivities
   6. Mesh Movement
   7. Optimizers
   8. Customization
   9. Forward-Mode Differentiation
8. Appendix
   1. Publications
   2. Development Team
   3. F95 Coding Standard
   4. Hypersonic Benchmarks

Tutorials

1. Adaptation
   1. Testing Solution Gradient-Based Adaptation

Examples

1. Recent Applications at Advanced Vehicle Research
2. Applications Posters
3. Mars Phoenix Lander
4. CLV Analysis
5. Robin Helicopter
6. Dynamic Overset Grid Demonstration Using A Simple Rotor/Fuselage Model
7. Hypersonic Tethered Ballute Simulation
8. Time-Dependent Oscillating Flap Demonstration
9. Adjoint-Based Adaptation Applied to AIAA DPW II Wing-Body
10. Adjoint-Based Adaptation Applied to High-Lift Airfoil
11. Trapezoidal High-Lift Wing
12. Adjoint-Based Adaptation Applied to Supersonic Double-Airfoil
13. Partial-Span Flap
14. Mach 24 Temperature-Based Adaptation of Space Shuttle Configuration in Chemical Nonequilibrium
15. Line Construction for Line-Implicit Relaxation
16. Biologically-Inspired Morphing Aircraft
17. Mars Flyer
18. Support for QFF Tunnel Experiment
19. Combined FUN3D/CFL3D F-18
20. Adjoint-Based Adaptation for 3D Sonic Boom
21. Unsteady Space Shuttle Cable Tray Analysis
22. Adjoint-Based Design of Indy Car Wing
23. 3D Domain Decomposition
24. Mesh Movement Strategies
25. High-Lift Computations vs Experiment
26. Various 2D Adjoint-Based Airfoil Designs

Source Code Activity

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Product Manual

Recent Updates:

• Added recent rotorcraft publication (May'08)
• Added some recent applications work at AVR (May'08)
• Added some recent publications (Apr'08)
• High-Resolution Applications Posters in Examples Section (Apr'08)
• Public lists: FUN3D Users and FUN3D News (Feb'08)
• New support email: FUN3D-support@lists.nasa.gov (Feb'08)
• Added feature-based adaptation tutorial (Feb'08)
• Version 10.4.1 now available (Oct'07)
• Mars Phoenix Lander samples (Jan'07)
• ARES (CLV) samples (Oct'06)
• Spun-off fUnit, a Fortran unit test framework (May'06)
• Dynamic overset helicopter samples (Apr'06)

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