Contents

• Downloading and installing SUNTANS
  • Downloading and installing the latest source
  • Keeping up to date with CVS
  
  
• Running SUNTANS
• Creating or Reading in Triangular Grids
  • Using the triangle libraries
  • Reading triangular grids from a file
  
  
• Specifying initial and boundary conditions
  • Initial conditions
  • Specifying boundary conditions
  • Specifying heat flux
  
  
• Restarting Runs
• SUNTANS Examples
  • Running the examples
  • Tidal forcing
  • Time accuracy
  • Lock exchange
  • Boundary condition example
  • Cavity flow
  • Internal waves
  
  
• Parameter listing in suntans.dat
  • Physical/Computational parameters
  • Input/Output files
  
  
• Using the sunplot GUI
  • Starting up the GUI
  • Moving around in time
  • Displaying different vertical levels
  • Displaying different processors
  • Surface plots of data
  • Vector plots
  • Displaying the grid
  • Zooming in on data and obtaining profile plots
  • Changing the axes scaling
  • Changing the color axes
  • Quitting out of sunplot
  • Command line options
  
  
• Bibliography