[Paraview] Just Learning Paraview

[David E DeMarle]

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 1:07 PM,  <iva.atcsupervisor at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey Everyone
>
> I first off would like to say that I am not an engineer but have always been
> fascinated with CFD's with respect to airflow around aircraft. I just
> downloaded Paraview and finding tutorials on how to build and run a
> simulation is very difficult. I did manage to start and connect to the
> localhost server ie. my computer. But I can not figure out how to start a
> simulation with streamlines around a simple sphere constructed using the
> sources menu. and I am not sure exactly how to construct and aircraft or
> even a wing in paraview. I know that you can import many datatypes but I do
> not recognize any of them because I am so new to this.
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
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Hello,

ParaView isn't really meant to make simulations. Its purpose is to
display and analyze the results of simulations produced by some other
computational package.

If anyone on  the list can recommend some open tools that are good for
learning about CFD computation, please chime in.

cheers,
-- 
David E DeMarle
Kitware, Inc.
R&D Engineer
28 Corporate Drive
Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
Phone: 518-371-3971 x109