Course curriculum

  • 1
    Getting Started
    • Welcome to Running Ansys Fluent on TotalCAE
    • Four ways to run Fluent on TotalCAE
    • Logging in and finding your way around
    • Getting your model onto the cluster
  • 2
    Submitting a Fluent Job from the Portal
    • Your first Fluent job, start to finish
    • A tour of the Fluent job form
    • The fields you fill in
    • Where it runs, time limit and cost
    • Batch flags, Extra Arguments and Additional Files
    • Email alerts and comments
    • Copy the tsubmit command instead of submitting
  • 3
    Writing a Batch Journal
    • What a journal file is
    • Walking through oil.jou
    • Recording a journal instead of typing one
    • Journal habits that keep batch runs smooth
    • Saving pictures from a batch run
  • 4
    Monitoring and Managing Jobs
    • The List Jobs page
    • Why is my job not running yet?
    • Peek Output: watching the Fluent transcript
    • The right-click menu
    • Saving and stopping: Check Fluent, Exit Fluent and Cancel
    • Job emails and TotalCAE Watchdog
  • 5
    Getting Your Results
    • What a Fluent job writes
    • Reading the transcript and logs
    • Downloading results
    • Viewing and post-processing results
  • 6
    Submitting from the Command Line with tsubmit
    • Before you start: enable tsubmit
    • Reading tsubmit fluent --help
    • Submitting oil_rig_7m with tsubmit
    • Watching and controlling jobs from the CLI
  • 7
    Licensing and Advanced Batch Jobs
    • Fluent licenses in plain terms
    • Using ANSHPC licenses
    • Checking license use
    • Running Fluent Meshing
    • Continuing a run from saved data
    • User-defined functions
    • Jobs that wait for other jobs
  • 8
    Interactive Fluent with Fluent Launcher
    • When to use Fluent interactively
    • Allocating nodes with salloc and making a hosts file
    • Starting Fluent Launcher and the Home tab
    • Parallel Settings and starting Fluent
  • 9
    Ansys Workbench with Remote Solve Manager
    • How Workbench submits to TotalCAE
    • Opening Workbench 2026 R1 from the Desktop tab
    • Solution properties for RSM
    • Update, follow the job, and get results back
  • 10
    Submitting PyFluent jobs with tsubmit and the TotalCAE API
    • The PyFluent script you will submit
    • Submit the script with tsubmit
  • 11
    The Fluent GPU Solver
    • What the native GPU solver is
    • What the GPU solver supports
    • GPU queues and GPU memory
    • Licensing the GPU solver
    • Submitting a GPU job
  • 12
    Sizing, Cost and Getting Help
    • Sizing guidance: cells per core and per GPU
    • Keeping an eye on cost and utilization when ru
    • Where to look and getting help
    • Keep Learning