The FUN3D AIM has the ability to transfer surface data (e.g. pressure distributions) to and from the AIM using the conservative and interpolative data transfer schemes in CAPS. Currently these transfers may only take place on triangular meshes.
Data transfer from FUN3D
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"Pressure", "P", "Cp", or "CoefficientOfPressure"
Loads the coefficient of pressure distribution from [project_name]_ddfdrive_bndry[#].dat file(s) (as generate from a FUN3D command line option of --write_aero_loads_to_file) into the data transfer scheme. This distribution may be scaled based on Pressure = Pressure_Scale_Factor*Cp + Pressure_Scale_Offset, where "Pressure_Scale_Factor" and "Pressure_Scale_Offset" are AIM inputs (AIM Inputs).
Data transfer to FUN3D
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"Displacement"
Retrieves nodal displacements (as from a structural solver) and updates FUN3D's surface mesh; a new [project_name]_body1.dat file is written out which may be loaded into FUN3D to update the surface mesh/move the volume mesh using the FUN3D command line option --read_surface_from_file
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"EigenVector_#"
Retrieves modal eigen-vectors from a structural solver, where "#" should be replaced by the corresponding mode number for the eigen-vector (eg. EigenVector_3 would correspond to the third mode, while EigenVector_6 would be the sixth mode) . A [project_name]_body1_mode#.dat file is written out for each mode.