Two Tecplot products are available on NAS systems: Tecplot 360 and Tecplot Chorus.
Tecplot 360
Tecplot 360 is a computational fluid dynamics and numerical simulation visualization software program used for post-processing simulation results. Common tasks associated with post-processing analysis of flow solvers (for example, Fluent, STAR-CD, OpenFOAM) include:
- Calculating grid quantities (such as aspect ratios, skewness, orthogonality, and stretch factors)
- Normalizing data; deriving flow field functions (such as pressure coefficient or vorticity magnitude)
- Verifying solution convergence
- Estimating the order of accuracy of solutions
- Interactively exploring data through cut planes (slices through a region), iso-surfaces (3D maps of concentrations), particle paths (dropping an object in the "fluid" and watching where it goes)
The NAS Tecplot 360 license does not restrict the number of instances of Tecplot 360 that can be run concurrently.
TIP: If you are having problems running Tecplot through VNC, you can try running it with the -mesa option, which uses software rendering.
Tecplot Chorus
Tecplot Chorus is a simulation analytics framework that unites physics visualization with data management and analytics in a single environment.
Currently, one Tecplot Chorus license is available to use on NAS high-end compute systems or NAS-supported desktop systems.
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