## 6.2. Accessing Help

You can access the ANSYS CFX help in the following ways:

- Select the appropriate command from the Help menu of the ANSYS CFX Launcher or CFX-Pre, CFX-Solver Manager, or CFD-Post. The help will open in the ANSYS Help Viewer.

- Click a feature of the ANSYS CFX interface to make it active and, with the mouse pointer over the feature, press the F1 key for context-sensitive help (that is, the help opens at the appropriate page for the feature under the mouse pointer). Not every area of the interface supports context-sensitive help.

- To access documentation files on the ANSYS Customer Portal, go to http://support.ansys.com/documentation.

PDF help is available in the ANSYS Customer Portal (support.ansys.com/docdownloads).

For information on using the ANSYS Help Viewer, see Using Help in the Using Help.

For further information about tutorials and documentation on the ANSYS Customer Portal, go to http://support.ansys.com/docinfo.

The following table lists the pdf files available for ANSYS CFX:

Book | Description | PDF Name
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ANSYS CFX Introduction | An overview of CFD and the CFX software | cfx_intr.pdf
ANSYS CFX-Pre User's Guide | How to use ANSYS CFX-Pre, the pre-processor for ANSYS CFX | cfx_pre.pdf
ANSYS CFX-Solver Manager User's Guide | How to use the CFX-Solver Manager to control a CFD simulation | cfx_solv.pdf
ANSYS CFD-Post User's Guide | How to post-process a results file | cfd_post.pdf
ANSYS CFX-Solver Modeling Guide | How to use the physical models implemented in the CFX-Solver | cfx_mod.pdf
ANSYS CFX-Solver Theory Guide | Describes the mathematical details of the models used in the CFX-Solver and also how the CFX-Solver solves flow equations | cfx_thry.pdf
ANSYS CFX Reference Guide | Best-practices guides and complete details for APIs, CFX Command Language, CFX Expression Language, functions, and variables | cfx_ref.pdf
ANSYS CFX Tutorials | A set of tutorials that demonstrate the workflow | cfx_tutr.pdf
ANSYS CFD-Post Tutorials | A set of tutorials that demonstrate the workflow | cfd_posttutr.pdf

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