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Getting Started

Introduction
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- Modeling Your First Process
Installation
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- System Requirements
- Hardware Guide
- Platform Diagnostics
- Windows
- Linux (Single Node)
- Linux (Multi-Node)
- AWS
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- Azure
- Google Cloud
- Containers
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  - Singularity
  - M-Star CFD Docker Container
- Python Install
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- Remote Visualization (NICE DCV)
- Windows Python Setup Guide
- Troubleshooting M-Star Pre/Post Startup
Licensing
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- Workstation License
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- M-Star License Utility
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  - GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
- Locate your MAC Address
Tutorial Videos
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How-To Guides
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Knowledge Base
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- Warnings and Errors
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  - “No Fluid” Errors
- M-Star Pre/Post won’t start on Windows AWS
- CUDA-aware MPI
- M-Star CFD Version 4.0.x Notes
- NVRTC Compilation Error (Linux)
- Understanding GPU Peer Access
- Solver Startup Delay

M-Star Pre

Overview
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- Menu
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- Model Tree
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  - Dynamic Names
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- Viewing Panel
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Model Setup
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- Simulation Parameters
- Main Lattice
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- Fluid Configuration
Fluid
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Geometry
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- Surface
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- Child Geometry Output Data
Create
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- Create: Fundamentals
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  - Static Body
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    - Motion Type
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      - Motion Modifier Option
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    - Boundary Condition Types
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- Create: Particles
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  - Massless Tracers
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    - DEM Particle Interactions with Solid and Static Bodies
  - Liquid Droplets
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- Create: Lattice
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  - Porous Medium
- Create: Scalar
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  - Scalar Field
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- Create: Variables
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  - Voxel Variables
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- Create: Runtime
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Output
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- Statistics
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  - Statistics Reference
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- Planes/Probes
- Volume
- Fluid Interface
- Static Bodies
- Moving Bodies
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Check
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Solve
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UDFs and Tables
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M-Star Solve

Running the Solver
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Workflow and Integration
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M-Star Post

Overview
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Post Processing
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Scaling Performance

M-Star API

Python Pre API
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- Module functions
- Model
- Components
- Properties
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- Foundation Classes
- Initial State

More Resources

Literature and Validation
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- Flow in the Trailing Vortex of an Impeller
References
Webinars
Theory
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Architecture Technical Overview
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Signal¶

Statistics for the Signal category.

Statistics	Units	Details
Time	s	simulation time
Value	[dynamic]	signal value

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