Overview

The NPARC Alliance flow simulation system is distributed to users as a collection of compressed tar files containing the source code to Wind-US and several pre- and post-processing tools. These build distributions enable users to compile optimized executables for their particular computational platform(s).

Wind-US Build Distribution

The Wind-US build distribution contains all the files needed to build, install, and run Wind-US on a variety of platforms. This includes:

• Source code for the Wind-US flow solver.
• Source code for all the required library routines, including PVM but not MPI.
• Scripts needed to run Wind-US.
• Makefiles for a variety of computational platforms.

This distribution includes the PVM source code but not MPI, since there are several popular versions of MPI. If Wind-US is to be run on a multi-processor system using MPI, you will need to configure the makefiles to compile and link with your locally-installed MPI libraries.

Tools Build Distribution

The tools build distribution contains all the files needed to build, install, and run one or more of the tools on a variety of platforms. These tools can briefly be summarized as:

• GMAN, a pre-processor used for setting boundary conditions and multi-zone connectivity.
• MADCAP, intended primarily as a successor to GMAN, and potentially as a single user interface for accessing a range of tools and processes used to perform CFD analyses.
• CFPOST, a post-processor used to list and plot results, generate reports, and produce files for other post-processors.
• A variety of smaller utilities, described in the Wind-US Utilities Guide.

The tools build distribution includes:

• Source code for the tools
• Source code for all the required library routines
• Scripts needed to run the tools
• Makefiles for a variety of computational platforms

Process Build Distributions

The process build distributions contain the files needed to build other (typically third-party) software that supports the Wind-US simulation process. This includes:

• HTX heat transfer solver
• FieldView Reader
• Tecplot Loader

These distributions come with their own installation instructions and may require you to first compile the shared libraries that are part of the Wind-US build distribution.

Note that the availability of this software does not constitute an official endorsement by the NPARC Alliance or its members. Other vendors and developers that would like to include Wind-US compatibility in their products are encouraged to contact us via the (support web page).