zhaoxiao9302 / pato

Porous Material Analysis Toolbox

Porous material Analysis Toolbox based on OpenFoam (PATO) 2.3

Notices

Copyright © 2010 United States Government as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.  All Rights Reserved.

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• Distributed under NASA Open Source Agreement Version 1.3.
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Installation Guideline Summary For Personal Computers

0. Recommended system (for a first installation):

   • OS: Ubuntu Linux 16.04
   • Shell: bash
   • Text editor: gedit
   • Plotting software: python v2.7.5 or newer
   • Optional installation: numpy, matplotlib

1. Install OpenFOAM 7 to your home directory by compiling it from sources - see for example www.openfoam.org.

2. Copy your PATO version in the directory of your choice, for example, copy it to $HOME/PATO or directly clone it from the git repository.

3. Source the PATO bashrc from your bashrc file (depending on where you installed PATO), for example, add this line to your .bashrc:

   source $HOME/PATO/PATO-dev/bashrc

4. To compile PATO, open a terminal and execute the following commands:

   source .bashrc
   pato
   ./AllwcleanAllclean
   ./Allwmake

5. If you can use Gedit, let's optimise its layout for PATO files. In the menu, go to edit/preferences:

   • select font : courrier 10 pitch /11
   • uncheck "enable text wrapping"
   • set the indentation size to 4 spaces (do not use tabs)

6. Your system is ready to run PATO tutorials.

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