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RHEL 6.4

Download and install RHEL 6.4 as a desktop

Set username to Nicholas to allow research license for university
Register redhat with wget command:
# wget -qO - https://rhnss.usyd.edu.au/pub/bootstrap/bootstrap_updates-only.sh | /bin/bash
Install additional libraries required by ANSYS, given in ansysPackages.sh (command is repeated below):
yum -y install libXp.x86_64 xorg-x11-fonts-cyrillic.noarch xterm.x86_64 openmotif.x86_64
compat-libstdc++-33.x86_64 libstdc++.x86_64 libstdc++.i686 gcc-c++.x86_64
compat-libstdc++-33.i686 libstdc++-devel.x86_64 libstdc++-devel.i686 compat-gcc-34.x86_64
gtk2.i686 libSM.i686 xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-75dpi.noarch
Update and upgrade RHEL with:
yum upgrade
yum install
Perform all security updates.
Run ANSYS install as root - note you will need to allow TCP: do this by altering /etc/gdm/custom.conf
[xdmcp]
Enable=true
[security]
DisallowTCP=false
AllowRemoteRoot=true
And then run init 3 and init 5 commands (must be done as root)
Must alter .bash profile in user home to include ansys paths and ld libraries:
# .bash_profile
# Get the aliases and functions
if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
. ~/.bashrc
fi
# User specific environment and startup programs
PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin
export PATH
PATH=$PATH:/usr/ansys_inc/v150/Framework/bin/Linux64:/usr/ansys_inc/v150/aisol/lib/linx64:
/usr/ansys_inc/v150/commonfiles/MainWin/linx64/mw/lib-amd64_linux_optimized:
/usr/ansys_inc/v150/commonfiles/CPython/linx64/python/lib:
/usr/ansys_inc/v150/commonfiles/CPython/2_7_3/linx64/Release/python/lib:
/usr/ansys_inc/v150/ansys/bin:/usr/ansys_inc/v150/fluent/bin:
/usr/ansys_inc/v150/polyflow/polyflow15.0.0/lnamd64/libs/add_libs
export PATH

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LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/ansys_inc/v150/Framework/bin/Linux64:
/usr/ansys_inc/v150/commonfiles/MainWin/linx64/mw/lib-amd64_linux_optimized:
/usr/ansys_inc/v150/aisol/lib/linx64:/usr/ansys_inc/v150/commonfiles/CPython/linx64/python/lib:
/usr/ansys_inc/v150/commonfiles/CPython/2_7_3/linx64/Release/python/lib:
/usr/ansys_inc/v150/polyflow/polyflow15.0.0/lnamd64/libs/add_libs
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
May also want to add ifup eth0 to the bash profile to connect to the internet automatically on startup.
Must add ansLib.conf to /etc/ld.conf.d/ folder to have ansys library dependencies resolved:
/usr/ansys_inc/v150/Framework/bin/Linux64:
/usr/ansys_inc/v150/commonfiles/MainWin/linx64/mw/lib-amd64_linux_optimized

Should be good to go!

II.

System Coupling Command Line Run

Set up directory structure with fluid, structural and coupling subdirectories (make sure fluid.cas is
copied into fluid sub-directory).
Generate fluent journal file for case and place in main coupling directory, something along the lines of:
file/start-transcript "Solution 1.trn"
file set-batch-options , yes ,
file/read-case/fluidFlow.cas
s i i
(sc-solve)
wcd FLUENTRestart.cas.gz
exit
ok
In coupling directory:
/ansys_inc/v150/aisol/.workbench -cmd ansys.services.systemcoupling.exe
-inputFile ../coupling.sci
Check the scServer file to extract port, host and solution order
In fluid directory:
/ansys_inc/v150/fluent/bin/fluent 3ddp -g -driver null -scport=xxxxx
-schost=pcd-14-139.aeromech.usyd.edu.au -scname=Solution 1
-i ../fluidFlow.jou > FLUENT.out
Note that after -g may not require -driver null
In structural directory:
/ansys_inc/v150/ansys/bin/ansys150 -b -scport xxxxx
-schost pcd-14-139.aeromech.usyd.edu.au
-scname "Solution" < ../structural.dat > ANSYS.out

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