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. Boundary Conditions
   1. Boundary Condition List
   2. Value Input Format
5. Pre/Post Processing
   1. Sequential Grid Processing
   2. Parallel Grid Processing
6. Analysis
   1. Flow Solver Namelist Input
   2. Boundary Condition Namelist Input
   3. Running the Flow Solver
   4. Rotorcraft
   5. Hypersonics
   6. Time Accurate – Basics/Fixed Geometry
   7. Time Accurate – Moving Geometry
   8. Overset Grids
   9. Static Aeroelastic Coupling
   10. Ginput.faces Type Input
7. 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
8. 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
9. Appendix
   1. Publications
   2. Development Team
   3. F95 Coding Standard
   4. Hypersonic Benchmarks

Tutorials

1. Adaptation
   1. Testing Solution Gradient-Based Adaptation

Examples

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

Source Code Activity

• Webpage

Recent Updates:

• Added three examples using new propulsion-related BC's (Aug'08)
• Added recent rotorcraft publication (Aug'08)
• Version 10.6.0 now available (Aug'08)
• Added 2007 NIA publication (July'08)
• Added citations for two recent ARES-related publications (June'08)
• Version 10.5.0 now available (May'08)
• 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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