HOW TOs
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This section is intended as a list of "recipes" for common needs in using the Kratos
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General
- Installing kratos in Ubuntu Linux
- Installing kratos in Windows
- Installing kratos in macOS
- How to Compile Kratos on the Acuario Cluster
- How to Check Kratos is Correctly Installed in Windows
- How to Check Kratos is Correctly Installed in Linux
- How to subscribe to Kratos' mailing list
- How to Profile an application (using google-perftools)
- How to Measure memory consumption (using google-perftools)
- How to Profile an application (using OProfile)
- How to work with Groups (Meshes)
- How to make my application derivable
- How to use the PaStiX solver in Kratos
OpenMP Parallelism
- How to Learn OpenMP
- How to "survive" OpenMP parallelism
- How to force a scalar run
- How to use ThreadSanitizer to detect data race bugs
MPI Parallelism
- How to run your application in cluster
- How to compile the Boost if you want to use MPI
- How to use communicator for parallel synchronization
OpenCL Parallelism
- Introduction to OpenCL Programming
- Useful OpenCL links
- How to set up OpenCL
- How to debug OpenCL programs using GDB
- Support for double-precision floating point basic arithmetic in ATI Stream SDK (2.1 and later)
Git
Python
General Python Use for Kratos
- How to use Python
- How to Use an Application
- How to use parameters
- How to import Kratos from Python using the KratosMultiphysics module
- How to work with nodes and elements in python
- How to use multiple model parts
- How to construct a linear solver using the "Linear Solver Factory"
- How to construct the "solving strategies"
- How to create unitary tests
- How to create a new application
- strategy_python
- Operations
- How to acess the values of a Table
Input/Output and GiD
- How to read a mdpa file
- How to use the GidIO
- How to read a data file
- How to plot graphs
- How to create the problem_type.gid folder with the new problem type generator
- How to use the Isosurface Node Printer
Calculation tips for Kratos feasible from Python
- How to Calculate Distance Function
- How to Calculate Normals
- How to execute an FFT analysis
- How to execute fitting of data series
- How to run python recursively
- How to execute a SVD analysis
- How to add automatic benchmarking to your example
- How to use parallel Pardiso solver for your example
- How to use the projection between no matching meshes
- How to use the ReduceTimeStep
- How to transfer nodal values between non-matching meshes
- How to use the OpenCL linear solvers
- How to refine an existing triangular or tetrahedral mesh
- How to use the Cutting Application (Serial and Parallel)
- How to use external linear solvers and preconditioners
- How to create a restart (python) file
- How to use the Cutting Isosurface Application
- How to access a value in a 'Properties' block
C++
- How to use the Constitutive Law class
- How to use "Smart Pointers" within Kratos
- How to Use the ModelPart
- How to Use the Meshes as Group
- How to Add and Delete Components (Nodes, Elements, ...) from ModelPart
- How to Access Neighbor Nodes and Elements
- How to Access DataBase
- How to Create a New Application using cmake
- How to Create New Element
- How to use the geometry within an element
- How to Use Solving Strategy
- How to understand Kratos Pointers
- How to Use the std::vector (and the kratos containers)
- How to Use Ublas
- How to Export Function/Classes to the Python
- How to Interpolate Data
- How to Compile Kratos in Debug mode
- How to debug with valgrind
- How to Add a Custom_Utilities File
- How to Create a GiD Problem Type
- How to Add a New Element (Condition)
- How to Add a New constitutive law
- How to Add a New Variable
- How to use the Geometry
- How to Create Multi-step Elements
- How to use push_back
- How to Create a executable without Python
- How to apply face pressures
- How to print values on Gauss points
- How to use Serialization
- How to Search neighbors
- How to use Doxygen to generate documentation for our code
- News for constitutive laws
- strategy_python
- Compiling lapack++ for 64 bit Windows
- Common errors
- Some aspects of programing
- How to use the Spatial Containers
- How to solve linker errors
Debbuging and optimizing your code
- Debugging the Application
- Profiling the Kratos
- How to Profile (Measure Time Consumption)
- Checking memory use with Valgrind
Graphical User Interfaces
