Documentation for the Manchester Thermal Analyzer
Introduction
The current version of the MTA supports only Linux 64-bit X86_64. The test platform was CentOS 7. To run the provided script run_flow.pl, please ensure Perl is installed on the system.
Quick Start
- Download tar ball from this website.
- Unzip the tar ball:
tar -xvf mta.tar.gz
- Check if the binary files are executable
cd mta
If the binary files are executable, help information is displayed in the terminal. If not, the OS issues errors.
bin/heat -h
bin/msh_gen -h
./run_flow.pl -h
The binary files can be made executable by issuing the commandschmod a+x bin/heat
chmod a+x bin/msh_gen
chmod a+x ./run_flow.pl - The MTA can now execute thermal simulations. Please refer to the manual/tutorials for additional information.
External tools
- GMSH: visualization of mesh (.msh file extension)
- Paraview: visualization of result (.pvd file extension)
- MPI: mpich: parallelization (please export your "mpirun" location to PATH.)