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Old   February 22, 2008, 13:20
Default Pausing Fluent in batch
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Hiya Im runnign Fluent in batch mode using a journal file, and would like to temporarily pause the process (for say 2mins ) between two commands in the journal to allow an external program to do some nifty work and create a file that Fluent needs for the next step. Im looking for somethign similar to matlab's "pause" command, or often "wait" in many codes. Any ideas?

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Old   February 22, 2008, 19:48
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in journal you can run a shell command but the first character should be !

So to make fluent stop for few seconds , for example 15 sec use

!sleep(15)

or you can write your own C program and ask fluent to run it

!my_program_that_does_something

It all works

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Old   February 22, 2008, 22:34
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thanks for the help, ill check that plan out.
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Old   February 23, 2008, 16:13
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Hi,

If you are using batch mode then you can just use a script file, which is controlled by a run file. I run batch jobs using up to 32 processors and the script just contains commands like:

rc file.cas /read case it 1500 /iterate 1500 wd file.dat /write data file

You can use this if you know when you're likely to be stopping the simulation (say every 200 iterations) and writing a corresponding file. Have a look at the fluent manual if you want to use this method.

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Old   June 18, 2009, 12:37
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You can pause by putting this in your journal file:

(cx-pause)

And it will wait for you to hit the return key.

If you want it to just pause for some time you can specify the time instead:

(cx-pause 5)


where the specified number is the time to wait in seconds.


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Old   June 19, 2009, 00:15
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I had to do exactly the same once, what I did was using a loop in C to find the file that fluent should be waiting. I think it was something like this:

pb=fopen("your_file","r");

while (pb==NULL){
pb=fopen("your_file","r");
system(pause nn);
}

This way fluent checks if the file is ready at a certain nn time interval.

Hope it helps.
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