5.7 Special Considerations for Parallel ANSYS FLUENT

If you are running serial or parallel ANSYS FLUENT on a Windows system and intend to compile a UDF, then you must have Microsoft Visual Studio installed on your machine, preferably on the C: drive.

Also note that if you have compiled a UDF while running ANSYS FLUENT on a Windows parallel network , you must `share' the folder where the UDF is located so that all computers on the cluster can see this folder. To share the folder in which the case, data, and compiled UDF reside, using the Windows Explorer right-click on the folder, choose Sharing... from the menu, click Share this folder, and then click OK.

If you forget to enable the sharing option for the folder using the Windows Explorer, then ANSYS FLUENT will hang when you try to load the library in the Compiled UDFs dialog box.

See Section  5.6 for a list of errors you can encounter that are specific to Windows parallel.