6.3.13 FLUENT 4 Case Files

If you have a FLUENT 4 case file and you want to run an ANSYS FLUENT simulation using the same mesh, import it into ANSYS FLUENT using the File/Import/FLUENT 4 Case File... menu item, as described in Section  4.12.18. ANSYS FLUENT will read mesh information and zone types from the FLUENT 4 case file.

FLUENT 4 may interpret some pressure boundaries differently from the current release of ANSYS FLUENT. Check the conversion information printed out by ANSYS FLUENT to see if you need to modify any boundary types.

To manually convert an input file in FLUENT 4 format to an output file in the current ANSYS FLUENT format, enter the following command:

utility fl42seg input_filename output_filename

After the output file has been written, you can read it into ANSYS FLUENT using the File/Read/Case... menu item, as described in Section  4.2.