Getting Started

due 1/15/2020 before midnight


Below are some tasks to complete during the first week. If you are already familiar with Linux, or already know the basics of Star-CCM+, there is no need to do those exercises again. You won’t need to turn in anything for this assignment. Its purpose is just to get everyone on the same page.

During the semester we will learn some of the fundamentals of using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) for aerodynamic analysis. This semester we will be using Star-CCM+, though the concepts we will study are transferable to other solvers. StarCCM+ can be run on Linux or Windows. Even if you choose to run on Windows, it would probably benefit you to learn some of the basics of Linux. This is because large-scale CFD (as well as lots of other computational engineering problems) requires a supercomputer, and almost every supercomputer in the world runs Linux.

Complete the following tasks (recommended, but not required for this class):

Choose one of these two options:

Complete the introductory tutorial and the exploratory exercise: