Site Contents

Software Overview and References

1. Overview and Getting Started
   1. Background
   2. Capabilities
   3. Requirements
   4. Pre-built Modules
   5. Release History
   6. Request FUN3D
   7. 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
9. Spring 2023 v14 Training
   1. Overview
   2. Agenda and 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. Flight Trajectories for Various Rocket Geometries
19. Supersonic Retro-Propulsion
20. Smart Truck Simulations at BMI Corporation
21. Ongoing Improvements in Computational Performance
22. Long-duration Landing Gear Simulations
23. Design of Tiltrotor Configuration
24. Design of F-15 with Simulated Aeroelastic Effects
25. FUN3D and LAURA v5 STS-2 heating comparisons
26. Recent applications at AMRDEC
27. DES ground wind simulation on ARES configuration
28. Modified F-15 with Propulsion Effects
29. Mars Science Laboratory
30. Propulsion-Related Test Cases
31. Recent Applications at BMI Corporation
32. Applications Posters
33. Mars Phoenix Lander
34. CLV Analysis
35. Robin Helicopter
36. Dynamic Overset Grid Demonstration Using A Simple Rotor/Fuselage Model
37. Hypersonic Tethered Ballute Simulation
38. Time-Dependent Oscillating Flap Demonstration
39. Adjoint-Based Adaptation Applied to AIAA DPW II Wing-Body
40. Adjoint-Based Adaptation Applied to High-Lift Airfoil
41. Trapezoidal High-Lift Wing
42. Adjoint-Based Adaptation Applied to Supersonic Double-Airfoil
43. Partial-Span Flap
44. Mach 24 Temperature-Based Adaptation of Space Shuttle Configuration in Chemical Nonequilibrium
45. Line Construction for Line-Implicit Relaxation
46. Biologically-Inspired Morphing Aircraft
47. Mars Flyer
48. Support for QFF Tunnel Experiment
49. Combined FUN3D/CFL3D F-18
50. Adjoint-Based Adaptation for 3D Sonic Boom
51. Unsteady Space Shuttle Cable Tray Analysis
52. Adjoint-Based Design of Indy Car Wing
53. 3D Domain Decomposition
54. Mesh Movement Strategies
55. High-Lift Computations vs Experiment
56. Various 2D Adjoint-Based Airfoil Designs

Announcements:

• Released 14.2-ffaff71 (apr'25)
• Researchers at NASA and Georgia Tech were recently recognized with a 2024 HPC Innovation Excellence Award for large-scale demonstrations of closed-loop flight simulations of human-scale Mars lander descent trajectories using geographically-distributed exascale computing, described in this recent highlight and AIAA Paper 2024-3535 (nov'24).
• Released 14.1-6e82beb (jun'24)
• Planning for a Smooth Landing on Mars (feb'24)
• Released 14.0.2-16d1333 (nov'23)
• Released 14.0.1-21c716f (may'23)
• Released 14.0-d03712b (feb'23)
• A series of weekly training tutorials for v14 has been offered in spring 2023. See the Spring 2023 v14 training page for the training materials (feb'23)
• For an overview of impacts the GPU implementation of FUN3D has enabled within NASA and at other organizations, see this presentation given at Big Compute 22 (nov'22)
• Rescale accelerates NASA FUN3D CFD simulations while reducing costs with NVIDIA GPUs for the next generation of U.S. aerospace innovation (aug'22)
• Recent NASA applications of FUN3D highlighted at SC21; see Presentations section (nov'21)
• Optimizations related to different vendor GPU architectures presented at SC21; see Publications and Presentations sections (nov'21)
• Intel establishes oneAPI Center of Excellence at Old Dominion University to focus on FUN3D optimization efforts (nov'21)
• Promotional video for CFD at NASA for Intel developer conference (nov'21)
• 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. (mar'21)

Email lists:

• Public FUN3D Users and FUN3D News email lists are available. To subscribe to the FUN3D News email list, please send an email with 'subscribe' in the subject to fun3d-news-join@lists.nasa.gov. To subscribe to the FUN3D Users email list, please send an email with 'subscribe' in the subject to fun3d-users-join@lists.nasa.gov.
• Users are encouraged to direct questions to fun3d-users@lists.nasa.gov , where the broader user base may be able to offer solutions in a more timely manner than the core FUN3D development team. For inquiries involving proprietary or sensitive data concerns, please continue to use fun3d-support@lists.nasa.gov , which is staffed entirely by NASA civil servants bound by the Trade Secrets Act.