4. Simulation Setup

• 4.1. Input File Basics
  • 4.1.1. Anatomy of an Input Deck
  • 4.1.2. Aprepro Scripting
• 4.2. Specifying the Mesh
  • 4.2.1. Finite element model
  • 4.2.2. Assemblies and Mesh Groups
  • 4.2.3. Skinning
  • 4.2.4. Rebalance
  • 4.2.5. Adaptivity
• 4.3. Problem Specification
  • 4.3.1. Equation Specification
  • 4.3.2. Material Properties
  • 4.3.3. Volumetric Sources
  • 4.3.4. Initial Conditions
  • 4.3.5. Boundary Conditions
• 4.4. Advanced Features
  • 4.4.1. Radiation
  • 4.4.2. Contact
  • 4.4.3. Bulk Nodes
  • 4.4.4. Advective Bars
  • 4.4.5. Directed Energy
  • 4.4.6. Feature Toggling
  • 4.4.7. Level Set/CDFEM
  • 4.4.8. Element Death
  • 4.4.9. Burn Front Model
  • 4.4.10. Local Coordinate System
  • 4.4.11. Correlation Heat Transfer Coefficient
  • 4.4.12. Chemistry
  • 4.4.13. Pressurization Zones
  • 4.4.14. Submodel
• 4.5. User Customization
  • 4.5.1. String Functions
  • 4.5.2. User Expressions
  • 4.5.3. Universal Expressions
  • 4.5.4. User Functions
  • 4.5.5. Multi-dimensional Tables
  • 4.5.6. User Fields
  • 4.5.7. User Subroutines
  • 4.5.8. User Plugins
• 4.6. Postprocessing
  • 4.6.1. Overview
  • 4.6.2. Fluxes
  • 4.6.3. Standard Reductions (integral, average, etc)
  • 4.6.4. Aliased Reduction Operations
  • 4.6.5. Field Values
  • 4.6.6. Data Probes
  • 4.6.7. Mesh Fields
  • 4.6.8. Global Values
  • 4.6.9. Post-Processing Specific Models
  • 4.6.10. Universal Expressions
  • 4.6.11. Postprocessing Existing Results
  • 4.6.12. Advanced Details
  • 4.6.13. Legacy Postprocessor Conversion
• 4.7. Solving the problem
  • 4.7.1. Nonlinear Solution Strategy
  • 4.7.2. Linear Solution Strategy
  • 4.7.3. Tpetra Solver Overview
  • 4.7.4. Solver Error Codes
  • 4.7.5. Expert Syntax
  • 4.7.6. Solver Selection Guidelines
  • 4.7.7. Tolerance Settings
  • 4.7.8. Block Preconditioning
• 4.8. Controlling the Simulation
  • 4.8.1. Solution Control
  • 4.8.2. Solution Options
  • 4.8.3. Time Step Selection
• 4.9. Input/Output
  • 4.9.1. Output Reference
  • 4.9.2. Restart Reference
  • 4.9.3. IO Region
  • 4.9.4. Transfer
• 4.10. Coupling
  • 4.10.1. File Based Coupling
  • 4.10.2. MPMD Coupling