ICEM CFD
Description
ANSYS ICEM CFD software supports a wide range of direct CAD interfaces and geometry readers, including faceted geometry and mesh readers. Components from different formats can easily be combined within one meshing session. The flexible mesh generation tools offer the capability to parametrically create volume or surface meshes from geometry or mesh in multi-block structured, unstructured hexahedral, Cartesian, tetrahedral, tetra/prism hybrid, hexa hybrid and unstructured quad/tri shell formats. - Homepage: http://ansys.com/
Help
Getting started materials: http://www.ansys.com/academic/free-student-products/support-resources - For example:
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Cornell University MOOC for CFD and Mechanical
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ANSYS Maxwell Tutorials - Allison Kipple, Northern Arizona University
Student Forum. Register here and discuss simulation with students worldwide
Access to advanced material and video - see instructions here
Access
ANSYS is open to all HPRC users when used within the terms of our ANSYS license agreement.
IMPORTANT NOTE REGARDING THE ANSYS LICENSE: (July 12, 2017)
Use of ANSYS is only permitted for users that are affiliated with Texas A&M at
College Station. Users meeting this criteria are permitted to use ANSYS on HPRC
systems from anywhere in the United States (including Alaska and Hawaii). Use
of this software outside the designated area represents a breach of the license
and any users caught doing so may be subject to account suspension and/or other action.
If you have particular concerns about whether specific usage falls within the TAMU HPRC license, please send an email to the HPRC Helpdesk. Usage of ANSYS is restricted by the number of available tokens. To see the number of available tokens, use the License Checker Tool.
Loading the Module
To see all versions of ANSYS available:
To load a particular version of Ansys on terra (Example: ANSYS/2022R2):
Known Issues
There is a known issue when using the Ansys GUI for any version of Ansys. The Geometry Editor in the Ansys Workbench will not run properly without also loading an NVIDIA module.
To bypass this bug, load the OpenGL/NVIDIA module before running the Ansys Workbench:
Usage on the Login Nodes
Please limit interactive processing to short, non-intensive usage. Use non-interactive batch jobs for resource-intensive and/or multiple-core processing. Users are requested to be responsible and courteous to other users when using software on the login nodes. The most important processing limits here are:
- ONE HOUR of PROCESSING TIME per login session.
- EIGHT CORES per login session on the same node or (cumulatively) across all login nodes.
Anyone found violating the processing limits will have their processes killed without warning. Repeated violation of these limits will result in account suspension.
Note : Your login session will disconnect after one hour of inactivity.
Usage on the Computer Nodes
Non-interactive batch jobs on the compute nodes allows for resource-demanding processing. Non-interactive jobs have higher limits on the number of cores, amount of memory, and runtime length.
For instructions on how to create and submit a batch job, please see the appropriate wiki page for each respective cluster:
- FASTER: About FASTER Batch Processing
- Grace: About Grace Batch Processing
Example 1: A serial (single core) ICEM CFD Job example: (Last updated October 2024)
#!/bin/bash
##NECESSARY JOB SPECIFICATIONS
#SBATCH --job-name=ICEMJob # Sets the job name to ICEMJob
#SBATCH --time=5:00:00 # Sets the runtime limit to 5 hr
#SBATCH --ntasks=1 # Requests 1 core
#SBATCH --ntasks-per-node=1 # Requests 1 core per node (1 node)
#SBATCH --mem=5G # Requests 5GB of memory per node
#SBATCH --output=stdout1.o%J # Sends stdout and stderr to stdout1.o[jobID]
## Load the necessary modules
module purge
module load ANSYS/2023R2
## Launch the solver with proper parameters
icemcfd -batch inputfile
To submit the batch job, run: (where jobscript is a file that looks like one of the above examples)