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What is PLANT

PLANT is the feature of the PHOENICS SATELLITE which permits users to augment the flow-simulating power of PHOENICS by supplying formulae for:

material properties;
sources and sinks of heat, mass, and momentum;
initial values:
novel boundary conditions;
fixed and moving grids;
case-specific output;
numerical-control features;
and much more.

PLANT then:

interprets the formulae,
creates and compiles the corresponding Fortran coding automatically,
re-builds the executable, and
executes the flow-simulating calculation.

PLANT can be regarded as an extension to PIL the PHOENICS Input Language.

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