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.

Manual available for download

Quick Start

1. Download tar ball from this website.
2. Unzip the tar ball:

   tar -xvf mta.tar.gz

3. Check if the binary files are executable

   cd mta
   bin/heat -h
   bin/msh_gen -h
   ./run_flow.pl -h
   

   If the binary files are executable, help information is displayed in the terminal. If not, the OS issues errors.
   
   The binary files can be made executable by issuing the commands

   chmod a+x bin/heat
   chmod a+x bin/msh_gen
   chmod a+x ./run_flow.pl

4. 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.)