NUDiS trouble

[metiz]

I've been starting to use NUDiS in the past 6 months or so with the help of Graham. One constantly recurring problem, on multiple OS'ses and office versions is that in the combustion run or quite often even before I get to the point where I can start the combustion run, I will get a number of errors on seemingly random itterations or before any run can commence after I press "run NUDiS" Normally this can be attributed to a number of problems with the engine itself but I have come the the point where I think it's HIGLY unlikely that it has something to do with the engine design and more with NUDiS and my pc itself. I've imputted my 5 pound thermonese engine into the program and it will crash at a random itteration number on the combustion run. I send the .QSAV file to Graham and he's having no problems running it at all. This seems to confirm that it's not design related. I have an open version of NUDiS, given to me by Graham. He suggested I make a slight modification in the source code, basically increasing a waiting period. However, I don't know how to make those modifications and I have not been able to contact Graham for a couple of months. Can some-one help me with this?

Graham:
If you look in the code behind the Combustion book or the Analysis book you'll find in the iterative combustion routine a bit of code that looks like this:

Do While EndofCycle = False 'Look for The start of induction

'1a) The Data Output for Testing

CCRowNumber = CCRowNumber + 1
' 2) Run NUDiS
ChDir "C:\NUDIS"
Nudis = Shell("C:\NUDiS\NUDiS.exe") ' Run NUDIS

'Allow Some Time For NUDiS To Finish. Wait 3 sec.

newHour = Hour(Now())
newMinute = Minute(Now())
newSecond = Second(Now()) + 2
waitTime = TimeSerial(newHour, newMinute, newSecond)
Application.Wait waitTime

' 3) Get Results
' Load New Files
' Pressure
Workbooks.OpenText Filename:="C:\NUDiS\p.dat"
' Gas Velocity
Workbooks.OpenText Filename:="C:\NUDiS\v.dat"
' Gas Temp
Workbooks.OpenText Filename:="C:\NUDiS\T.dat"
' Wall temp
Workbooks.OpenText Filename:="C:\NUDiS\wall.dat"
' TIME
Workbooks.OpenText Filename:="C:\NUDiS\time.dat"


Notice the wait that has been inserted after the call to NUDiS.exe - (newSecond = Second(Now()) + 2 or 3 in the Analysis book) Increase the wait value a second at a time and see if that helps.

[Eric]

I've tried nudis a few times, every time I get computer upgrades I try it again, but it drives me nuts because I can calculate the performance by hand faster. I dont know if my microsoft office is just ridiculously slow, but it takes thousands of itterations per cycle and you dont get any accurate results from the first few cycles. I dont have the patience to let the computer just do its thing for 6 or 8 hours.

Is about 1 iteration a second the normal speed?

If it was written in C++, using the nvidia cuda processing capabilities, you could run nudis in real time, and have a pull and grab geometry features, so that you can instantly see the performance change as you change the shape. Now that would be handy.

[metiz]

Now if only I were a programmer

1 sec/ cycle is actually a bit fatster then the older models do (on this pc at least) the newer version(s) will do =<1 sec/ cycle. A 10 cycle combustion run will normally run through between 2 and 4 hours depending on the complexity of the model.

[WebPilot]

Now if only I were a programmer

You can be a programmer if you really desire to be one ... but you have to start programming.

Try Python.

[metiz]

Technically I did learn html, php and sql in school but the html has faded, the php was....bluffed throuh and the sql is useless realy.

I don't want to imput the time needed to learn something I have no real use for