Creating a folder

Create a special folder for the solver you develop under the “solvers” folder under the installation folder of iRIC. This time, please create “example” folder.

Creating a solver definition file

Create a solver definition file.

In solver definition file, you are going to define the information shown in Table 2.

Table 2 Informations defined in solver definition file

Item	Description	Required
Basic information	The solver name, developer name, release date, etc.	Yes
Calculation Condition	Calculation condition for solver execution	Yes
Grid Attributes	Attributes defined at nodes or cells of calculation grids	Yes
Boundary Conditions	Boundary conditions defined at nodes or cells of calculation grids

Solver definition file is described in XML language. The basic grammer of XML language is explained in XML files basics.

In this section, we add definition information of a solver in the order shown in Table 2.

• Defining basic information
• Defining calculation conditions
• Defining Grid attributes
• Defining Boundary Conditions