[mao]

hello,i am now running one simulation in cluster, i stooped in the middle and have a file.trn(finished 2000steps), i wanna start with this file to finish another 1500steps, however, the new simulation starts from beggining(0step) instead of the file.trn(2000steps), hope someone can give some suggestions, thank you very much.

[Opaque]

Can you describe how you are restarting the simulation ? Either from the command line (cfx5solve), or the steps you are following in the ANSYS CFX Solver Manager

[mao]

hi,opaque, thanks for your kind reply.following are some details about my simulation.
1,i have an unsteady simulation,totaltime=8s,
2.first stage. i have to stop at t=2s due to some reasons, then we have some trn files(let us call the last trn file as 2.trn).
3.second stage, i should regard 2.trn as initial file in the second simulation, and then keep going the next 6 seconds.
4.in the first simulation,totaltime=2s, whereas it equals 8s in the second simulation,
5,in normal computer or severs, i can choose "continue history from" in solver define run. but now i have to use cluster where i give a command file whiched showed in 6, either i start from bak file or trn file, the second simulation starts from 0 second rather than 2 second.
6.
#!/bin/bash -l
#PBS -N XiuliSimulation
#PBS -l nodes=2pn=16:NRM
#PBS -l walltime=999:00:00

SIMNAME=casoCFX
export SIMNAME
ANSYSLMD_LICENSE_FILE=1055@147.162.153.181
export ANSYSLMD_LICENSE_FILE
ANSYSLI_SERVERS=2325@147.162.153.181
export ANSYSLI_SERVERS

cd $PBS_O_WORKDIR
#mkdir /usr/data/$SIMNAME/
#cp -R * /usr/data/$SIMNAME/
#cd /usr/data/$SIMNAME/

nodes=`cat $PBS_NODEFILE`
nodes=`echo $nodes | sed -e 's/ /,/g'`

# con initial file
/opt/ansys/v161/CFX/bin/cfx5solve -double -initial-file /home/wissam/xiuli/foldername/filename.trn -def /home/wissam/xiuli/foldername/filename.def -par-dist $nodes -sizepar 1.1 -size 1.1

# senza initial file
# /opt/ansys/v161/CFX/bin/cfx5solve -def /home/wissam/christian/td600_unsteady/td600_unsteady.def -par-dist $nodes -sizepar 1.1 -size 1.1


#mv /usr/data/$SIMNAME/* $PBS_O_WORKDIR
#rm /usr/data/$SIMNAME/* -r

[Lance]

your batch script was not very clear, but make sure you understand the difference between -initial-file and -continue-from-file
the first will make the simulation start from zero with initial values from the specified file, the second will continue the simulation using the initial values file.

[Opaque]

To complement Lance's response, you must also understand the differences between n.trn and n_full.trn files.

n_full.trn files are effectively final results file for a given timestep (n), and you can safely restart from them.

n.trn files are considered minimal transient files, and only contain data to be visualized by a successfully finished run. That is, on their own they do not have enough information to be used.

Hope the above helps,

[mao]

thank you,guys, your information are very useful to me, thanks again sincerely.