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 (Version 10.7)
   3. Value Input Format (Version 10.8)
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
   11. Flow Visualization Output Directly From Flow Solver
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. Running the Optimization
   6. Customization
   7. Forward-Mode Differentiation
9. Appendix
   1. Publications
   2. Development Team
   3. F95 Coding Standard
   4. Hypersonic Benchmarks

Tutorials

1. Flow Solver
   1. Inviscid flow solve
   2. Turbulent flow solve
2. Adaptation
   1. Testing Solution Gradient-Based Adaptation
3. Grid Motion
   1. Overset Moving Grids
4. Design Optimization
   1. Max L/D for steady flow
   2. Max L/D for steady flow at two different Mach numbers
   3. Lift-constrained drag minimization for DPW wing

Examples

1. FUN3D and LAURA v5 STS-2 heating comparisons
2. Recent applications at AMRDEC
3. DES ground wind simulation on ARES configuration
4. Modified F-15 with Propulsion Effects
5. Mars Science Laboratory
6. Propulsion-Related Test Cases
7. Recent Applications at Advanced Vehicle Research
8. Applications Posters
9. Mars Phoenix Lander
10. CLV Analysis
11. Robin Helicopter
12. Dynamic Overset Grid Demonstration Using A Simple Rotor/Fuselage Model
13. Hypersonic Tethered Ballute Simulation
14. Time-Dependent Oscillating Flap Demonstration
15. Adjoint-Based Adaptation Applied to AIAA DPW II Wing-Body
16. Adjoint-Based Adaptation Applied to High-Lift Airfoil
17. Trapezoidal High-Lift Wing
18. Adjoint-Based Adaptation Applied to Supersonic Double-Airfoil
19. Partial-Span Flap
20. Mach 24 Temperature-Based Adaptation of Space Shuttle Configuration in Chemical Nonequilibrium
21. Line Construction for Line-Implicit Relaxation
22. Biologically-Inspired Morphing Aircraft
23. Mars Flyer
24. Support for QFF Tunnel Experiment
25. Combined FUN3D/CFL3D F-18
26. Adjoint-Based Adaptation for 3D Sonic Boom
27. Unsteady Space Shuttle Cable Tray Analysis
28. Adjoint-Based Design of Indy Car Wing
29. 3D Domain Decomposition
30. Mesh Movement Strategies
31. High-Lift Computations vs Experiment
32. Various 2D Adjoint-Based Airfoil Designs

Source Code Activity

• Webpage

Recent Updates:

• Added several recent 2009 publications (Jul'09)
• Added recent publication on time-dependent adjoint-based design optimization (Jun'09)
• Updated design optimization documentation and added tutorials (May'09)
• Added recent Georgia Tech rotorcraft-related thesis (May'09)
• Added example case showing STS-2 heating comparisons for FUN3D and LAURA v5 (May'09)
• Added recent publication on isolated rotor analysis (Apr'09)
• Added recent publication on adjoint-based rotor design in noninertial reference frames (Mar'09)
• Version 10.7.0 now available (Feb'09)
• Added recent publication on multidimensional scheme for hypersonic heating on tetrahedral grids (Feb'09)
• Added section on solution output directly from flow solver to bypass post processing in party
• Added vanilla turbulent OM6 flow solve tutorial (Jan'09)
• Added vanilla inviscid OM6 flow solve tutorial (Jan'09)
• Added overset, moving-grid tutorial (Jan'09)
• Added 2000 publication on adjoint-based rotor airfoil design (Jan'09)
• Added recent publications on node-based vs cell-centered discretizations and enhanced mesh-motion capabilities (Jan'09)
• Added recent publication on HRLES model implementation (Nov'08)
• Added recent publication on uncertainty analysis for turbulence models in CFL3D and FUN3D (Nov'08)
• See ongoing study examining consistency of turbulence model implementations in CFL3D and FUN3D (Oct'08)
• Added recent AMRDEC application examples (Sep'08)
• Added recent DES simulation example (Sep'08)
• Added recent publication and PhD thesis (Aug'08)
• Added recent rotorcraft publication from US Army (Aug'08)
• 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)

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