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Wind-US Utilities

In addition to MADCAP, GMAN, and CFPOST, several pre- and post-processing utilities are supplied as part of the Wind-US tools distribution. None of these are required in order to run Wind-US, but may be useful when preparing input files and/or examining the results for a Wind-US run.

Another very useful utility is CGNSview external link, developed as part of the CGNS project external link. CGNSview is a viewer/editor for CGNS files (which are similar to Wind-US common files), and allows access to any node in the file using a Windows-like GUI with a collapsible node tree. Nodes and data may be added, deleted, and modified. CGNSview is not part of the Wind-US tools distribution, but instead is part of the CGNStools package, available from http://cgns.github.io/ external link.

The PDF form of the Wind-US Utilities Guide (1.2M, 97 pages) was created using pdfTeX external link and the hyperref external link package, and is designed to be printed. The PDF file may be viewed and/or printed using a variety of freely available software packages, including Acrobat Reader external link, GhostScript external link, and xpdf external link.

The HTML form of the Wind-US Utilities Guide is designed for interactive use, and the contents are listed below.

    Supported Utilities

adf_revert Convert a common flow (.cfl) file created by Wind-US 3.0 to one that can be read by Wind-US 2.0.
cfaverage Average multiple common flow (.cfl) files.
cfbeta Add zones to a common grid (.cgd) or common flow (.cfl) file that are symmetric to existing zones.
cfcnvt Convert between common files and various other file types.
cfcombine Combine multiple structured zones in a common grid (.cgd) or common flow (.cfl) file into a single zone.
cflistnum List zone sizes and grid units in a common file.
cfpart Partition a single-zone unstructured grid into multiple zones.
cfreorder Re-order and/or delete zones in a common grid (.cgd) or common flow (.cfl) file.
cfreset_iter Reset the iteration count in a common flow (.cfl) file to zero.
cfspart Re-partition unstructured common flow (.cfl) and boundary data (.tda) files.
cfsplit Split a structured zone (or zones) in a common grid (.cgd) or common flow (.cfl) file into multiple zones.
decompose Split a Wind-US structured grid system and, optionally, the corresponding flow file, into smaller grid zones to improve the parallel processing efficiency.
fpro Operate on data in common flow (.cfl) files.
gpro Operate on data in common grid (.cgd) files.
jormak Find boundary points in a common grid (.cgd) file, and create a journal file containing subset information for CFPOST or PLOT3D.
mpigetnzone Get number of zones in a common grid (.cgd) file.
recombine Convert a "split" structured common flow (.cfl) file, originally created by decompose, back to the original grid system.
resplt.pl Create GENPLOT files containing convergence data from a list output (.lis) file.
thplt Create GENPLOT files containing time history data from a time history (.cth) file. This utility must be used with .cth files created using the improved time history capability introduced in Wind alpha 5.52.
tmptrn Create a point-by-point wall temperature distribution and/or boundary layer transition data, and write it into the common flow (.cfl) file, for use with Wind-US's TTSPEC keyword.
USintrpltQ Interpolate solution from one unstructured grid to another.
windpar Compute an estimate of the potential for parallel speed-up of a particular Wind-US case as a function of the number of processors, based on the likely number of grid points per processor.

    Depricated Utilities

cfappend Append one common file to another. Use cfcnvt instead.
resplt.exe Old Fortran version of the resplt utility used to create GENPLOT files containing convergence data from a list output (.lis) file. The resplt command now defaults to the Perl script (resplt.pl) version of this utility.

    Obsolete Utilities

    adfedit   View (as text) the structure and contents of ADF files. Use CGNSview external link instead.
b4wind Convert between various types of grid and solution files, and/or compute an initial flow field.
cfnav Explore the contents of common files via textual output. Use CGNSview external link instead.
cfrevert Convert a common flow (.cfl) file created by Wind-US 2.0 to one that can be read by Wind-US 1.0.
cfsequence Remove grid points from a structured common grid (.cgd) or common flow (.cfl) file.
cfsubset Remove specified grid points from a structured common grid (.cgd) or common flow (.cfl) file.
cfunsequence Add grid points to a structured common flow (.cfl) file.
cfview View (as text) the structure and contents of common files. Use CGNSview external link instead.
chmgr Create and manipulate chemistry (.chm) files.
gridvel Read the output from a 6DOF program and use that information to set grid velocities in a common grid (.cgd) file.
timplt Create GENPLOT files containing time history data from a time history (.cth) file. This utility must be used with .cth files created using versions of the flow solver prior to Wind 5.52.
usplit-hybrid Split a single-zone unstructured common grid (.cgd) file into multiple zones. Use cfpart instead.

The complete Wind-US Utilities Guide in HTML form is also available for installation on a local system. This is a gzip'ed tar file (748K, 1.2M gunzip'ed), and may be downloaded by clicking on the link while holding down the shift key, assuming your browser supports this capability. A dialogue box will appear for you to specify the directory and file name. To unpack the contents, do

   gunzip -c utilities.tar.gz | tar xvf -
The files will be extracted and stored in the directory utilities. Point your browser to the local file utilities/index.html to display the Wind-US Utilities Guide home page. Note that this does not include the PDF form of the manual. Note also that some links, to other manuals, etc., may not work.


Last updated 26 Aug 2015