\section install_sec Installation
\subsection step1 Step 1: CMake
Download and install CMake.
If you have Windows OS oder X-Windows for Linux/Unix start cmake-gui.
If you work in terminal start ccmake.
\subsection step2 Step 2: project configuration
You need set a path for VirtualFluids source code. It is allays source directory at the end of path.
E.g. c:/vf/source. You need also set a path to build binaries. If you click Configure button start a project wizard and you can choose a compiler.
Set Grouped and Advanced check boxes in CMake. In the group USE you have follow important options:
\li USE_BOND - using an agent based communication framework for fault tolerance BOND
\li USE_METIS - using a domain decomposition tool METIS
\li USE_MPI - using MPI for distributed memory parallelization
\li USE_YAML - using YAML
\li USE_ZOLTAN - using domain decomposition tool ZOLTAN
There are externals library and you need additionally compile them.
\subsection step3 Step 4: project compilation
Compile you project with suitable compiler.