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Thermal-Flow
Contains general thermal and flow solver related documentation, such as the verification test cases, monthly critical fixes, DMP guide, and knowledge base articles.
TMG Executive Menu
TMG Executive Menu is a standalone application that lets you execute processes on thermal-flow files and solutions independently of Simcenter 3D or Simcenter Femap.
Solve a solution from the command prompt
This example shows how to solve a Simcenter 3D solution from the command prompt instead of starting the TMG Executive Menu user interface.

Thermal-Flow
Contains general thermal and flow solver related documentation, such as the verification test cases, monthly critical fixes, DMP guide, and knowledge base articles.
- TMG thermal-flow solvers
  Maya HTT develops and maintains a thermal solver and a flow solver, which are combined into the TMG thermal-flow solvers. These solvers are included and distributed with Simcenter 3D, NX, and Simcenter Femap. Older versions of TMG thermal-flow solvers are also included in NX I-deas.
- Thermal and flow verification test cases
  Contains verification test cases for the thermal and flow solvers.
- Monthly critical fixes
  Lists critical bugs that are fixed monthly for the thermal and flow solvers.
- TMG Executive Menu
  TMG Executive Menu is a standalone application that lets you execute processes on thermal-flow files and solutions independently of Simcenter 3D or Simcenter Femap.
  - Start TMG Executive Menu
    This example shows how to start TMG Executive Menu to open the MAYA HTT TMG Executive dialog box.
  - Solve a solution from the command prompt
    This example shows how to solve a Simcenter 3D solution from the command prompt instead of starting the TMG Executive Menu user interface.
  - Run solutions from the user interface
    This example shows how to solve multiple thermal and flow solutions from XML input files in batch mode from the TMG Executive Menu user interface.
  - Run solutions using a BAT file
    Depending on the command switch you use, you can launch batch runs using the Windows cmd command. The following page presents sample code examples and explanations.
  - TMG Executive Menu process descriptions
    The tables on following pages list all available TMG Executive Menu processes, their corresponding command prompt switch, and their description.
  - MAYA HTT TMG Executive dialog box
    The MAYA HTT TMG Executive dialog box opens when you start the TMG Executive Menu application with the UI command prompt switch.
- Thermal and flow DMP guide
  Describes the general workflow for executing the simulation jobs using distributed memory parallel processing on clusters and the scheduler-dependent files required to submit the jobs to the scheduler.
- Thermal-flow data exchange files
  The thermal and flow solvers in Simcenter 3D and Simcenter Femap create multiple thermal-flow data exchange files described on the following page.

Solve a solution from the command prompt

This example shows how to solve a Simcenter 3D solution from the command prompt instead of starting the TMG Executive Menu user interface.

Set the required environment variables for the software from which you run the TMG thermal-flow solvers: Simcenter 3D or Simcenter Femap. for more information, see Environment variables.

This task assumes that you run a TMG Executive Menu included with Simcenter 3D. Similar commands can be used with Simcenter Femap instead of Simcenter 3D when you change the environment variable and the executable name and location.

In the command prompt, type the following command to launch the TMG Executive Menu application and press Enter:
```
$UGII_TMG_DIR/com/tmgnx.cmd
```
This starts the TMG Executive Menu application in the text mode directly in the command prompt, which lists command prompt switches and prompts you to enter the desired switch. For each switch you use, the application guides you through all the information it requires. The switches are not case sensitive.
Type NX and press Enter.
The NX switch is equivalent to the Run analysis from XML, in solution's run directory process listed in Solve processes. Through the command prompt you can solve only one solution at a time.
Type the absolute or relative path to the solution input XML file and press Enter.

This starts the Solution Monitor, which runs the analysis.

Alternatively, you can combine the first two steps as follows in the command prompt, which requests the path to the XML file before solving:

$UGII_TMG_DIR/com/tmgnx.cmd nx

You can also combine all three steps as follows:

$UGII_TMG_DIR/com/tmgnx.cmd nx -inPath [path to the XML file]

Assuming you navigated in the command prompt to a folder that contains the sub folder named Test1 with the solution input XML file named Simulation1-Solution1.xml, use the following command:

$UGII_TMG_DIR/com/tmgnx.cmd nx -inPath Test1/Simulation1-Solution1.xml

Because the solution input file in the Simcenter 3D Multiphysics solver environment has the .mpdat extension, use mp or mn switches instead nx:

$UGII_TMG_DIR/com/tmgnx.cmd mp -inPath [path to the MPDAT file]