12.4. Executing a Custom Application

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## 12.4. Executing a Custom Application

To execute a custom application, navigate to the folder where it is stored and click on it. You can also right-click the application and select Execute from the context menu.

You can also click to display the Application launcher, and launch the custom application from there.

Note: Embedded applications do not appear on the Application launcher and cannot be launched from the folder in which they are stored. If you attempt to do so, you will see the following error message:

Embedded applications can only be launched from the process with which they are associated. For more information about the Embedded setting, see Creating a Custom Application.

The custom user interface that opens will vary depending on the application. When you click OK in the custom application dialog box, the inputs that you have specified in the dialog box will be processed by the back-end, and the desired operations will be executed before the dialog box is dismissed.

Figure 12.5: Custom Mixing Tank Simulation Dialog Box shows the dialog box of the mixing tank custom application created in the previous step. When you click OK, Fluent launches in the background and simulates the mixing tank using the parameters you supplied. Note that for this example, the Fluent solver application must be defined (without the `-post` command line parameter).

Figure 12.5: Custom Mixing Tank Simulation Dialog Box

A job object is created for the simulation process in the Job Monitor, where you can monitor its status.

You can then navigate to the output folder you specified and review the Simulation Details Report that was created for the simulation. This is shown below in Figure 12.6: Report for Custom Mixing Tank Simulation.

Figure 12.6: Report for Custom Mixing Tank Simulation

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