Appending Animation Sequences
In many situations, it is useful to create multiple sequences of animations, and append them end-to-end to create a final long animation. Many of CPFD Software’s marketing animations were created…
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Known Issues 16.0.5
Barracuda VR 16.0.5 Issues affecting this version: KI-1: Particle Drag is not calculated for pure liquid particles when simulation has no solid materials KI-2: 2D data is missing output conversion…
Fluid to Particle Heat Transfer in Barracuda
Heat transfer between a particle and the surrounding fluid is calculated using a correlation for the Nusselt number in Barracuda. While default correlation values are provided in Barracuda, there may…
Known Issues 16.0.4
Barracuda VR 16.0.4 Issues affecting this version: KI-1: Particle Drag is not calculated for pure liquid particles when simulation has no solid materials KI-2: 2D data is missing output conversion…
Understanding nvidia-smi GPU usage information
When running Virtual Reactor with GPU parallel acceleration, the nvidia-smi command-line tool is useful for monitoring the memory usage, temperature, and number of processes using the GPU card(s) on your system.…
Known Issues 16.0.3
Barracuda VR 16.0.3 Issues affecting this version: KI-1: Particle Drag is not calculated for pure liquid particles when simulation has no solid materials KI-2: 2D data is missing output conversion…
Is there an installation guide for Barracuda?
Note: This Knowledge Base post is now outdated. For current installation instructions, see the Installation chapter of the Barracuda Virtual Reactor User Manual. The attached document contains basic hardware recommendations…
Known Issues 16.0.2
Barracuda VR 16.0.2 Issues affecting this version: KI-1: Particle Drag is not calculated for pure liquid particles when simulation has no solid materials KI-2: 2D data is missing output conversion…
Creating high quality movies
The default animation utility in Linux (xanim) is very convenient for viewing animations. In particular, it lets you step forward and backward through the animation, frame-by-frame, which can be very…
Evaporation Model for Droplets (2013)
This evaporation model is now considered out-of-date. Original title of this post: Can I model water evaporation from particles in the Barracuda VR 15/16-series 2014 update: Evaporation Model for Droplets…