Quickstart Guide

Before installing, recognize that the user has three ways to use Lionbolt.

  1. The user can provide an input file and allow Lionbolt to proceed with a ‘canonical’ solution procedure. This is the most user-friendly option. The input file is sufficiently flexible that no features are obscured in this method, and in general this is intended to be the method of choice for most users.

  2. The user can provide a ‘driver.’ This is essentially the user’s own solution sequence, which relies on intuitively-designed, object-oriented routines to construct any of the necessary quantities.

  3. The user can build Lionbolt as a library, and essentially do method #2, however, with the added freedom to link Lionbolt to a larger program they are creating.

Now, methods #1 and #2 follow the same installation instructions as one another. Method #3 follows a different set of instructions.

More information about either of these methods is provided in [REVISIT]. In the quickstart page, however, we will focus on the user-friendly, input file-based method, method #1. We begin by running the validation examples, and proceed then to running a water tank example.

For the easiest method to visualize the results, it is strongly recommended to also install Terpdose.

Running the Validation Examples

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Water Tank Example

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Creating the mesh

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