When you submit a job associated with a fluid model for analysis, Abaqus/CAE first generates an input file representing your model and then Abaqus/CFD performs the analysis using the contents of this file. As the analysis proceeds, Abaqus/CFD creates a data (.dat) file and a status (.sta) file. Abaqus/CFD uses domain-based parallelism implemented with explicit message passing for both shared memory and distributed memory computers. For more information, see “Abaqus/Standard, Abaqus/Explicit, and Abaqus/CFD execution,” Section 3.2.2 of the Abaqus Analysis User's Guide, and “Parallel execution: overview,” Section 3.5.1 of the Abaqus Analysis User's Guide.
