Site Contents

Software Overview and References

1. Overview and Getting Started
   1. Background
   2. Capabilities
   3. Requirements
   4. Release History
   5. Request FUN3D
   6. User Manual
2. Reference Information
   1. Publications
   2. Presentations and Other Materials
   3. Development Team
   4. F95 Coding Standard
   5. Hypersonic Benchmarks
   6. Obsolete Online Manual

Training Workshops

1. March 2010 Workshop
   1. Overview
   2. Agenda
   3. Images
2. April 2010 Workshop
   1. Overview
   2. Agenda and Materials
   3. Images
3. July 2010 Workshop
   1. Overview
   2. Agenda and Materials
4. March 2014 Workshop
   1. Overview
   2. Agenda and Materials
5. June 2015 Workshop
   1. Overview
   2. Agenda and Materials
   3. Images
6. July 2017 Workshop
   1. Overview
   2. Agenda and Materials
   3. Images
7. December 2018 Workshop
   1. Overview
   2. Agenda and Materials
   3. Images
8. March 2021 GPU Training
   1. Overview
   2. Materials

Tutorials

1. Flow Solver
   1. Inviscid flow solve
   2. Turbulent flow solve
   3. Merge VGRID mesh into mixed elements and run solution
2. Grid Motion
   1. Overset Moving Grids
3. 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
   4. Max L/D over a pitching cycle for a wing
   5. Max L/D for steady flow over a wing-body-tail using Sculptor
4. Geometry Parameterization
   1. MASSOUD
   2. Bandaids

Applications

1. Updated scaling study on ORNL Cray XK7 system
2. Forward and adjoint solutions for wind turbine
3. Forward and adjoint solutions for aeroelastic F-15
4. Simulation of biologically-inspired flapping wing
5. Notional unducted engine with counter-rotating blades
6. More applications posters
7. Animation of Landing Gear Simulations
8. Computational Schlierens for Supersonic Retro-Propulsion
9. Time-dependent discrete adjoint solution for UH60 helicopter in forward flight
10. Fuselage effects for UH60 helicopter
11. Mesh adaptation for RANS simulation of supersonic business jet
12. More applications posters
13. Horizontal axis wind turbine
14. Computational Schlieren for Unsteady Simulation of Launch Abort System
15. Computational vs Experimental Schlieren for Supersonic Retro-Propulsion
16. More Smart Truck Simulations at BMI Corporation
17. More recent applications at AMRDEC
18. Hypersonic Winnebago Simulation
19. Flight Trajectories for Various Rocket Geometries
20. Supersonic Retro-Propulsion
21. Smart Truck Simulations at BMI Corporation
22. Ongoing Improvements in Computational Performance
23. Long-duration Landing Gear Simulations
24. Design of Tiltrotor Configuration
25. Design of F-15 with Simulated Aeroelastic Effects
26. FUN3D and LAURA v5 STS-2 heating comparisons
27. Recent applications at AMRDEC
28. DES ground wind simulation on ARES configuration
29. Modified F-15 with Propulsion Effects
30. Mars Science Laboratory
31. Propulsion-Related Test Cases
32. Recent Applications at BMI Corporation
33. Applications Posters
34. Mars Phoenix Lander
35. CLV Analysis
36. Robin Helicopter
37. Dynamic Overset Grid Demonstration Using A Simple Rotor/Fuselage Model
38. Hypersonic Tethered Ballute Simulation
39. Time-Dependent Oscillating Flap Demonstration
40. Adjoint-Based Adaptation Applied to AIAA DPW II Wing-Body
41. Adjoint-Based Adaptation Applied to High-Lift Airfoil
42. Trapezoidal High-Lift Wing
43. Adjoint-Based Adaptation Applied to Supersonic Double-Airfoil
44. Partial-Span Flap
45. Mach 24 Temperature-Based Adaptation of Space Shuttle Configuration in Chemical Nonequilibrium
46. Line Construction for Line-Implicit Relaxation
47. Biologically-Inspired Morphing Aircraft
48. Mars Flyer
49. Support for QFF Tunnel Experiment
50. Combined FUN3D/CFL3D F-18
51. Adjoint-Based Adaptation for 3D Sonic Boom
52. Unsteady Space Shuttle Cable Tray Analysis
53. Adjoint-Based Design of Indy Car Wing
54. 3D Domain Decomposition
55. Mesh Movement Strategies
56. High-Lift Computations vs Experiment
57. Various 2D Adjoint-Based Airfoil Designs

Announcements:

• Training sessions on the use of GPUs to accelerate FUN3D solutions were offered on March 2nd and March 5th. Training videos and slides are available here.
• Released 13.7-b3b47a4 (feb'21)
• Released 13.6-717bd48 (nov'19)
• Released 13.5-d36c511 (july'19)
• A 2-day FUN3D training workshop was held December 11-12 on-site at NASA Langley. Training content and videos of each session have been posted.
• Released 13.4-0a6bd8b (nov'18)
• Released 13.3-5dad7cc (apr'18)
• Released 13.2-e3f5937 (sep'17)
• Released 13.1-105cdae (mar'17) Note a new software usage agreement will be required for version 12 users.
• Released 13.0-382ef83 (sep'16) Note a new software usage agreement will be required.
• The NASA FUN3D team has a post-doctoral research opportunity currently available in the area of High Performance Computing. See this link for details. The next application deadline is November 1. Questions? Please E-mail us.
• Public FUN3D Users and FUN3D News email lists available.

Recent Updates:

• Added article/video overviewing recent Oak Ridge National Laboratory GPU hackathon held at University of Delaware (may'16)
• Added recent paper on sensitivity analysis for chaotic flows and an adjoint-based optimization review paper (mar'16)
• Released 12.8-dc8fb20 (nov'15)
• Added content for NASA booth at Supercomputing 2015 (nov'15)
• Streaming video footage from FUN3D training workshop held at the 2015 AIAA Aviation conference is now available (oct'15)
• Added presentation from US National Congress on Computational Mechanics (sep'15)
• Added numerous papers from AIAA Aviation 2015 conference (jun'15)
• Public email lists: FUN3D Users and FUN3D News
• Support email: FUN3D-support@lists.nasa.gov