© Fluent Inc. 9/8/20151 Fluent Software Training TRN Welcome to Fluent Inc.

© Fluent Inc. 9/8/20152 Fluent Software Training TRN Welcome  In order to ensure that our records are accurate and up-to-date, please place your filled out form (see your training materials) or your business card in the basket at the front of the room.  Thank you!

© Fluent Inc. 9/8/20153 Fluent Software Training TRN Welcome  Introduction of trainers  Corporate history, organization  “Housekeeping items” Restaurant guide  Detailed agenda  Training goals  Training evaluation forms  UNIX basics and copying files

© Fluent Inc. 9/8/20154 Fluent Software Training TRN Fluent Inc. History Creare Inc. CFD Group Creare Inc. Fluent Inc. Aavid Thermal Technologies Aavid Thermal Technologies Fluent Inc. Aavid Thermal Technologies Fluent Inc. Incorporating FDI and POLYFLOW

© Fluent Inc. 9/8/20155 Fluent Software Training TRN Organization Aavid Thermal Technologies (Holding Company) Applied Thermal Products (Laconia, NH) Fluent Inc. (NH, IL, CA, MI, WV) Polyflow (Belgium) Fluent Asia/Pacific Fluent Europe ( Sheffield, UK) Fluent Germany (Darmstadt) Fluent France (Paris) Applied Thermal Technologies (Manchester, NH, Santa Clara, CA) Fluent India (Pune) Fluent Italy (Milano)

© Fluent Inc. 9/8/20156 Fluent Software Training TRN Agenda for the Week  Day 1: Using the Solvers  Day 2: Using the Solvers  Day 3: GAMBIT  Day 4: GAMBIT  Day 5: One-on-One Consultation

© Fluent Inc. 9/8/20157 Fluent Software Training TRN Room Schedule Basic Training:Training Room A Special Topic:Multiphase Flow Training Room B 3-4 pm, Monday Combustion Modeling Training Room B 4-5 pm, Monday

© Fluent Inc. 9/8/20158 Fluent Software Training TRN Floor Plan exits (ground floor) mens’ roomwomens’ room training room A training room B reception to the lunch room (2nd floor) vending machine training room C Smoking: the designated smoking area is outside the door at the far end of the building

© Fluent Inc. 9/8/20159 Fluent Software Training TRN Detailed Agenda (Day 1) 8:15-8:30 Welcome & Introduction 8:30-9:00 Fluent Inc. Software: Overview 9:00-9:30 Demonstration: Overview of the CFD Process 9:30-11:30 Hands-on Exercise Session I 11:30-12:00 Review: CFD Step by Step 12:00-1:00 Lunch 1:00-2:00 Boundary Conditions 2:00-5:00 Hands-on Exercise Session II 3:00-4:00 Modeling Multiphase Flows - Optional Lecture (room B) 4:00-5:00 Combustion Modeling - Optional Lecture (room B)

© Fluent Inc. 9/8/ Fluent Software Training TRN Detailed Agenda (Day 2) 8:00-9:00 Modeling Turbulent Flows 9:00-12:00 Hands-on Exercise Session III 12:00-1:00 Lunch 1:00-2:00 Using the FLUENT 5 Solvers 2:00-4:30 Hands-on Exercise Session IV: Post-processing 4:30-5:00 Heat Transfer and Thermal Boundary Conditions

© Fluent Inc. 9/8/ Fluent Software Training TRN Training Goals  Broad concepts (lectures)  Some details and mechanics (hands-on)  Establish contact with support staff  Understand how to begin your own CFD projects

© Fluent Inc. 9/8/ Fluent Software Training TRN Evaluation Forms  Evaluation forms are provided in your folder  Your input is very valuable to us  Please write down your comments at the close of each day  Please turn in the evaluation to any trainer before you leave  Thank you!

© Fluent Inc. 9/8/ Fluent Software Training TRN Operating System Basics  Basic Unix commands: pwd - prints the name current working directory ls - lists the files in the current directory cd - change working directories. For example: cd fluent/examples cd.. (to go up one directory)  The environment variable $TRAINPATH contains a shortcut to the directory where training files are stored. For example: cp $TRAINPATH/fluent5.0/tut/elbow/elbow.msh. will copy the mesh file for the first example problem into the current working directory.  PC users will find tutorials under d:\Fluent.Inc\tut\. Save files to d:\users\fluent\.

© Fluent Inc. 9/8/ Fluent Software Training TRN One last thing...  PLEASE NOTE:  The computers in this room are on an isolated network. You cannot send , use telnet, or ftp to the outside world.  If it is essential for you to access an outside computer, please let one of the trainers know and they can arrange for this.