Getting Started with FLUENT

Cornell FLUENT tutorial

The FLUENT tutorial developed by the department of MAE is a great resource to begin with. If you have never use FLUENT or learned about CFD before, it is a good idea to go through at least the first three sections: Introduction to CFD basics, Laminar pipe flow, Turbulent pipe flow.

This short course is a concise overview of the fundamental ideas of CFD, and practicing with the tutorial problems makes you get familiar with the software quickly.

FLUENT documentation

FLUENT documentation is accessible by click "help" on the which ever dialogue box. You can search by the key word or browse by subject. It contains the most comprehensive information from how to use the graphic user interface, the text interface, the governing equations of the model, etc.