ZAERO Installation Notes
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1. Input File Name Description 1 KUSSNER INP 2D Airfoil Modeled Subjected to a Sharp Edged Gust at M 0 0 Applications Manual section 8 1 GTA_DGUST INP GTA_CGUST INP Open Loop and Closed Loop Discrete Gust Analysis of a Generic Transport Aircraft Applications Manual section 8 2 Open Loop and Closed Loop Continuous Gust Response Analysis of a Generic Transport Aircraft Application Manual section 8 3 Maneuver Loads Cases mloads subdirectory Case No Input File Name Description 1 M1440PEN INP M144CLOS INP Symmetric Transient Maneuver Loads of the Open Loop FSW Configuration Applications Manual section 6 1 Symmetric Transient Maneuver Loads of the Closed Loop FSW Configuration Applications Manual section 6 2 Nonlinear Flutter Cases nlifltr subdirectory Case No Input File Name Description 1 FREEPLAY INP 3 D O F Airfoil with Freeplay Three Degree of Freedom Typical Airfoil Section with Freeplay Applications Manual section 9 1 14 2 STRUTWING INP Strut Braced Wing Subjected to Discrete Gust Applications Manual section 9 2 3 FOLDWING INP Folding Wing with Bilinear Stiffness in Hinges Application Manual section 9 3 Static Aeroelastic Trim Cases trim subdirectory Case No Input File Name Description 1 HA144D INP Determined2. How to Run ZAERO e The ZAERO Runtime Database Directory The ZAERO software system utilizes a database called the ZAERO Runtime Database for all scratch data storage and retrieval during execution of the software The Runtime Database directory is setup during the installation process The default location is C ZAERO Home Director tmp but can be set to any location on any available hard disk A subdirectory is created within the Runtime Database directory each time ZAERO is executed that contains the database scratch files associated with the current job This subdirectory within the Runtime Database directory is deleted after the termination of a ZAERO job Should a subdirectory still exist after termination of a ZAERO job for example due to a power failure it can be deleted manually through Windows or DOS commands e Installing ZAERO The following steps should correctly install ZAERO 1 Put the ZAERO CD ROM in your CD ROM drive InstallShield will launch automatically to guide through the process If not continue with step 2 2 From the Start Menu click Run 3 Type the following on the Run command line D setup This assumes that the CD ROM is drive D on the host system If the CD ROM drive is assigned a different drive letter substitute the appropriate drive letter in the above command 4 Follow the instructions in the installation program e Installed Files After installation the ZAERO Home Directory should
3. Server ZLS Environment Variables an ZLS ZAERO environment variable is added for both the node locked and floating license installations of ZAERO This variable should equal localhost for a node locked license or equal the server machine IP address e g 123 123 123 3 a ZONA_SERVER environment variable is added for node locked installations and ZLS ZONA License Server installations This variable stores the path of the ZLS home directory To view the environment variable table open an MS DOS command prompt typically under Start Menu Programs MS DOS Prompt and type in set at the prompt If the ZAERO installation is successful you should see the following additions modifications to the environment table for a node locked installation for example if the ZAERO home directory is installed at C ZAERO ZLS_ZAERO localhost ZONA_SERVER C Program files ZONA Technology Inc ZLS PATH C ZAERO C all my other paths ZAEROEXE C ZAERO Note that a floating license installation will not have ZONA SERVER listed and ZLS_ZAERO will be equal to the server IP address of the machine hosting ZLS Environment variables can be updated manually by adding the above statements to the environment variable table via the Control Panel s system program i e Control Panel System Advanced Environment Variables button More information about the ZLS License Client Server can be found in the ZAERO User s Manual Chapter 2 0
4. contain the following files and subdirectories Filename Description zaero exe The ZAERO script file used to submit ZAERO jobs zaerobin exe The ZAERO software system executable image ZAEROCommand exe The ZAERO Command Dialog Windows application that can be used to submit ZAERO jobs ZAEROlInstallationNotes pdf PDF file this file containing information of the ZAERO license product and installation options DIRNAME FIX Text file containing the complete path of the ZAERO Runtime Database location e g C ZAERO TMP Directories Description bin Contains the ZAERO object files for rebuilding the ZAERO software system source Contains the ZAERO main program in source code format zgen ZAERO system generation files manuals Contains the ZAERO documentation in Adobe PDF format Four manuals are included User s Manual instructions for setting up ZAERO Input Data Programmer s Manual ZAERO programming environment 5 Application Manual Vols 1 and 2 description of demonstration test cases Theoretical Manual theoretical formulation of ZAERO TestCases Contains subdirectories with demonstration test cases input decks NASTRAN FEM output files etc ZLS Contains the ZLS client required files e Installing Adobe Acrobat Reader The ZAERO Manuals are provided in the manuals directory in Adobe Portable Document Format PDF and can be vi
5. ZAERO Installation and Product Information Release 8 4 1 0001 Thank you for licensing ZAERO We hope that you enjoy our products ZAERO Support Staff 0 ZONA Technology Inc 9489 E Ironwood Square Drive Scottsdale AZ 85258 Tel 480 945 9988 Fax 480 945 6588 E mail zaero support zonatech com Copyright 2009 ZONA Technology Inc All Rights Reserved Worldwide No part of the ZAERO software or documentation may be reproduced transmitted transcribed or translated in any form without the express written permission of ZONA Technology Inc RESTRICTED RIGHTS LEGEND Use duplication or disclosure by the U S Government is subject to restrictions as set forth in subparagraphs a through d of the Commercial Computer Restricted Rights clause of FAR 52 227 19 when applicable or in subparagraph c 1 ii of the Rights in Technical Data and Computer Software clause of DFARS 252 227 7013 and or in similar or successor clauses in the DOD or NASA FAR supplement The contractor manufacturer is ZONA Technology Inc 9489 E Ironwood Square Drive Suite 100 Scottsdale AZ 85258 TRADEMARKS All product names mentioned herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners This document provides ZAERO installation and product information Note that ZAERO is a ZONA License Server ZLS secured product that requires the installation of the ZLS and a valid ZLS license key in order to function pro
6. and Over determined Trim Analysis of Forward Swept Wing Configuration Applications Manual section 4 e Manuals The ZAERO Manuals are installed to the Manuals directory within the ZAERO home directory Four manuals are included namely User s Manual Applications Manual vols 1 2 Programmer s Manual Theoretical Manual The manuals are provided on the ZAERO installation CD ROM and will be installed in the Manuals directory within the ZAERO home directory after a successful installation of the software The manuals are saved in Adobe Portable Document Format PDF and can be viewed with Adobe s Acrobat Reader The Adobe Acrobat Reader can be downloaded from Adobe s web site http www adobe com e ZAERO Software Support If you have any problems with installing or running the ZAERO software please contact the ZONA Technology support team at Tel 480 945 9988 Fax 480 945 6588 E mail zaero support zonatech com If you require help with the ZONA License Server ZLS you can contact us at the numbers above or by email at E mail zis support zonatech com 15
7. e directory command ca to change directories Example I m starting from the root partition and my zaero test case is in the ZAERO TestCases directory type the following cd zaero TestCases this assumes that the TestCases directory is located under the ZAERO home directory 2 To submit a ZAERO job type zaero lt input filename gt lt output filename gt where lt output filename gt is optional A ZAERO job will be submitted Example zaero hal45e inp hal45e out 3 After submitting the zaero job a background process will be initiated To view all the jobs running on the system type ps a A beep will sound when the ZAERO job is finished assuming the system has a speaker To view the output results open 12 the ZAERO output file This can be done with vi or any text editor e g vi lt output filename gt More details on running ZAERO can be found in the ZAERO User s Manual e ZAERO Test Cases There are numerous test cases installed with ZAERO that demonstrate usage of the different engineering modules available in ZAERO These test cases are documented in the Applications Manuals and are located in the TestCases directory within the ZAERO home directory The following table lists these test cases in discipline order Aeroservoelastic Cases ase subdirectory Case No Input File Name Description 1 CROPASE INP Open Loop Flutter Usin
8. ewed on the screen or printed using the Adobe Acrobat reader Adobe Acrobat Reader is available for free from Adobe s Web site http www adobe com e Removing ZAERO From the Hard Disk Note Before deleting ZAERO from the hard disk make sure that there are no files located under the ZAERO home directory that you want to keep To completely delete ZAERO and the ZLS Client software from the hard disk requires the following two steps Step 1 Run the Add Remove Programs application found under Start Settings Control Panel Select ZAERO from the list and click on the Add Remove button Select Yes when prompted to completely remove ZAERO and all of its components Step 2 The uninstall process of Step 1 may leave the ZAERO home directory and certain subdirectories undeleted Therefore the ZAERO home directory and associated subdirectories may need to be deleted manually This can be done through Windows or DOS commands To uninstall all of the Java installed components run the Add Remove Programs application found under the Start Settings Control Panel Select the Java 2 Runtime Environment SE v1 4 1_04 followed by Java 2 SDK SE v1 4 1_04 followed by Java Web Start Note Add Remove Programs application is available in Windows XP For Windows Vista Program and Features application is provided Installation Options There are two ZAERO installations that can be made node locked or floating Which installation to choo
9. g the State Space and Frequency Domain Approaches of a Cropped Delta Wing Case Applications Manual section 3 1 2 AFA INP Open Loop and Closed Loop ASE Stability Analysis of a Generic Advanced Fighter Aircraft Applications Manual section 3 2 Ejection Loads Cases eloads subdirectory Case No Input File Name Description 1 E144 INP The ELOADS Analysis of the Open Loop and Closed Loop Forward Swept Wing Configuration Applications Manual section Flutter Cases flutter subdirectory Case No Input File Name Description 1 HA145E INP Subsonic Flutter Analysis of a 15 Degree Sweptback Wing Applications Manual section 2 1 2 CROP INP Analysis of a Cropped Delta Wing Applications Manual section 2 2 3 HA145FB INP Low Supersonic M 1 3 Flutter Analysis of a 15 Degree Sweptback Wing with and without Thickness Effects Applications Manual section 2 3 13 HA145G INP High Supersonic M 3 0 Flutter Analysis of a 15 Degree Sweptback Wing with and without Thickness Effects Applications Manual section 2 4 F16MA41 INP F 16 Aircraft with External Stores Applications Manual section 2 5 AGARDZTRAN INP AGARDZTAW INP Flutter Analysis of the AGARD Standard 445 6 Weakened Wing Applications Manual section 2 6 Flutter Analysis of the AGARD 445 6 Weakened Wing using ZTAW Applications Manual section 2 7 Gust Loads Cases gloads subdirectory Case No
10. he license key can be performed manually see the ZAERO User s Manual Chapter 2 0 or through the ZONA License Monitor on PC Windows installations of the ZLS The license key must be installed in the ZONA License Server home directory location Details on this process can be found in the ZLS User s Manual e Environment Variables To run ZAERO the setup of some environment variables is required as outlined in the following table Adding updating of these variables is normally handled by the installation of the software In the event these variables are not updated you may be required to set these variables manually Environment Variable Name Value PATH This variable needs to be updated to include ZAERO home directory which you specify during installation and the java home bin directory location ZAEROEXE This variable is set to the ZAERO home directory location the path must end with a for Windows or a for Unix Linux ZLS_ZAERO This variable is set to IP address of the machine with the ZLS server installed e g 123 123 123 11 For Node Locked installations this environment variable should be set to localhost i e ZLS_ZAERO localhost The following environment variable is only required on the machine onto which the ZLS is installed which is the same machine as ZAERO for node locked installations In addition this environment variable is only required for PC Windows installations of the ZLS i e
11. not for Unix or Linux installations ZONA_SERVER This variable is set to the ZLS server directory location e Locked Tokens In the event of an abnormal ZAERO termination e g a power failure during a job a token can become locked To unlock a lock token a cleanup utility is provided with the ZAERO installation zaero_cleanup exe or zaero_cleanup under Linux and Unix can be found in the ZLS Log directory under the ZAERO home directory For more details on all of these network features please see section 2 0 of the ZAERO User s Manual ZAERO Product Information ZAERO Package Contents There are two CD ROM s that are included in the ZAERO Windows package The first is the ZONA License Server ZLS CD and the second is the ZAERO Software System CD Both the ZLS and the ZAERO Software System need to be installed for ZAERO to run properly as described below For Linux and Unix versions there is only one CD which has both ZLS and ZAERO Software System Utility Files A miscellaneous folder misce1 is installed to the ZAERO home directory that contains the following utility files Application Description aicv70to71 exe A program that can be used to convert AIC s generated from older versions of ZAERO ver 7 0 to an AIC file that is compatible with versions 7 1 and higher conzaero m A matlab code that is listed in the ZAERO User s Manual used to convert the state space matrices of a con
12. ocation to the ZAERO test cases directory or any directory where a ZAERO input deck resides You can use the MS DOS change directory command cd to change directories within MS DOS mode Example I m starting from C WINDOWS and my ZAERO test case is in the ZAERO TestCases directory type the following cd c ZAERO TestCases this assumes that the TestCases directory is located under the ZAERO home directory 3 To submit a ZAERO job type ZAERO lt input filename gt lt output filename gt where lt output filename gt is optional A ZAERO job will be submitted Example ZAERO HA145E INP HA145E 0OUT 4 The MS DOS prompt will not be released until the job finishes but you can still work on other tasks in Windows while a job is running You can then minimize the Window onto the Status Bar if desired A beep will sound except in Windows Vista when the ZAERO job is finished assuming the system has a speaker To view the output results open the ZAERO output file This can be done in MS DOS mode with the MS DOS editor e g EDIT lt output filename gt or with any word processor Note More details on running ZAERO can be found in the ZAERO User s Manual Linux and UNIX VERSION The ZAERO software system runs in both the Linux and UNIX environments To run the software 1 Change the directory to the ZAERO test cases directory or any directory where a ZAERO input deck resides You can use the UNIX chang
13. on If Floating License installations are made on a network 2 above then this installation option must also be performed on a single designated server connected to this network The ZONA License Server issues a license or token to each computer on the network that executes a ZAERO job Components that are installed under this option are C D Details on this process can be found in the ZLS User s Manual e Obtaining a License Key In order to run ZAERO you must obtain a valid license key from ZONA Technology Inc Note that a license key is not required to run the demo version of ZAERO that can be downloaded from ZONA s web site at http www zonatech com Downloads htm To obtain a license key you must fill out the Point of Contact information on ZONA s website at http www zonatech com ProductRegistration htm and provide the Network Ethernet Address i e physical address such as 00 08 02 5A 90 CD of the machine onto which the ZONA License Server is Installed The Network Ethernet Address for a PC Windows machine can be obtained from opening up an MS DOS window and typing in ipconfig all Alternative A Point of Contact Word document is also included on the CD ROM called POC doc or POC pdf that can be printed filled in and emailed zaero support zonatech com or faxed to ZONA at 480 945 6588 Once ZONA receives this information a license key will be sent to you via email e Installing the License Key Installing t
14. perly Valid license key s can be obtained from ZONA Technology Inc Installation Information e System Requirements The following is the recommended minimum disk space and memory requirements for the ZAERO software system Hard Disk 500 MB free space for the ZAERO home directory 1 0 GB free space for the runtime database directory 70 MB for Java total for a node locked installation of 1 6 GB Memory 2 0 GB RAM or higher Processor Dual Core 2 6 GHz or better e The ZAERO Home Directory During the installation process you will be prompted for an installation directory to which the ZAERO software system and associated files will be copied By default this ZAERO Home Directory is C ZAERO but can be set to any location on any available hard disk The ZAERO installation updates the environment table of the system by modifying the Windows registry as follows ZAERO Environment Variables the PATH environment variable is appended to include the ZAERO Home Directory location so that the software can be executed from any directory on the system Multiple ZAERO runs can be submitted simultaneously see the ZAERO User s Manual for details but are limited to the number of licenses or tokens licensed from ZONA an environment variable ZAEROEXE is added or modified if it already exists which is required for the ZAERO script file process This variable stores the path of the ZAERO Home Directory ZONA License
15. se depends on your ZAERO usage requirements If you have questions after reading below please contact ZONA support staff at 480 945 9988 before proceeding with the installation The following components are installed between the ZONA License Server ZLS and the ZAERO Software system installations A ZAERO Software B ZLS Client Side Software C ZLS Server Side Software D Java SDK Note The installation of Java JRE ver 1 4 1 or higher is required for both the ZLS Client Side Software and the ZLS Server Side Software to run properly Java is included with the ZONA License Server and ZAERO Software System CD s for the PC and Linux versions For other Unix versions you must download and install Java for your particular platform Download and installation instructions can be found at the web sites of Hewlett Packard HP If you need assistance to obtain the latest version of Java for your Unix platform please contact ZONA s support staff at 480 945 9988 In addition to installation of Java the network version of ZAERO requires that the ZONA License Server ZLS be installed During each execution of ZAERO a token is checked out from the ZLS When the ZAERO job terminates the same token will automatically be checked back into the ZLS Complete details on the ZLS installation and operation can be found in the ZLS User s Manual e ZAERO Software System Installation 1 Node Locked License Installation A Node Locked License allo
16. trol system to ZAERO bulk data input cards zaero_dis res_tmpl A PATRAN results template that can be loaded into PATRAN for viewing ZAERO generated output plot file displacement results see Chap 7 0 of the ZAERO User s Manual for details zaero_pres res_tmpl A PATRAN results template that can be loaded into PATRAN for viewing ZAERO generated output plot file pressure results see Chap 7 0 of the ZAERO User s Manual for details VGPlot exe A Windows XP Vista program to automate the plotting of ZAERO generated V g plots via the PLTVG bulk data card VGPlotterDocumentation pdf The User s Manual of the VGPlot exe application Platform Compiler Notes Windows The ZAERO source code was compiled using Digital Visual Fortran ver 6 6 as follows PC 77 c traceback f zlink bat in the bin directory is used to link the object files 10 Other platforms are compiled with HP f90 02 U77 c f LINUX gfortran c fcray pointer 02 f zlink in the bin directory is used to link the object files e Running ZAERO PC Windows Version The ZAERO software system runs in the Microsoft Disk Operating System MS DOS environment To run the software 1 From the Start menu in Windows choose Windows NT Start Programs Command Prompt Windows 2000 Start Programs Accessories Command Prompt Windows XP Vista Start All Programs Accessories Command Prompt 2 Change the directory l
17. ws a single computer to run ZAERO The total number of ZAERO jobs submitted concurrently on this computer cannot exceed the number of licenses i e tokens purchased from ZONA This installation requires that all components A B C D be installed on a single machine 2 Floating License Installation A Floating License allows for ZAERO to be installed on multiple computers A Floating License Installation must be performed on each machine on which ZAERO is to be run The ZONA License Server see below must be installed separately on a single machine i e a server connected to a network that is accessible to the machines with the Floating License Installations of ZAERO This server issues one license or token 7 to each computer on the network that submits a ZAERO job The total number of jobs submitted concurrently on all computers connected to this server cannot exceed the number of licenses purchased from ZONA for this particular server Components that are installed under this option are A B D Note You will need the Server IP address e g 123 123 123 3 to install this option Please ask your IT Administrator if you do not have this information available You will be prompted to input this information during each Floating License_ installation However the IP address can be entered manually at any time after the ZAERO installation by setting the ZLS_ZAERO server IP address environment variable e ZONA License Server Installati
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