Question during coupling of EDEM with Fluent

Di Wu_22293

Hello,

I'm reaching out as I encounter errors during compilation in Linux when coupling EDEM with Fluent.

After compilation, I managed to follow README file in the folder /lib_edem_coupling.

However, for "2) Ensure that FLUENT_INC environment variable is set to your local Fluent installation directory", I don't know how to set the fluent environment variables.

Could you please kindly share more details?

Thanks.

 

Eric_Veikle

Hello Di,

If you follow the steps from the post: https://community.altair.com/community?id=kb_article&sys_id=c9bacfbe97935114e3b0361e6253af53

I believe that you will specify the path when you run the CentOS7_GUI_compilation (see post above for documentation and executable), however if that does not do it you can do the following:

bash uses an "envirnoment variable" called PATH to tell it where to look for programs.

If you type: echo $PATH it will give you a list of directories (seperated by colons) if the list does not include the directory you installed fluent, then you will need to add it, by typing

PATH=/opt/pkg/Fluent.inc/bin:$PATH

(note this is assuming fluent is installed in /opt/pkg/Fluent.inc/ )

This just works for your current terminal, if you want to make it permanent, you will have to add it to a hidden file called .bashrc

Please ley me know if this information was helpful!

Kind Regards,

Eric