Improvement of custom result quantities / custom probe result monitoring

[Anonymous]

Hi all,

would be great if the graphical custom result quantity feature could be extended also for custom probe monitorings like in other CFD-codes...

Meaning:

-Probes should be defineable by points, faces and volumes.

-Need of averaging, summation and integrals of probes (area-weighted, mass-weighted averages, surface integral, etc...)

-Including custom equation settings for probe handling as monitoring with plotting option

-Displaying the equation results for each iteration / timestep as diagram and possibility for export

E.g. Pumps: I want to define a head equation directly from pressure probe inlet and outlet as equation in CFD. The same for torque, power, efficiency, etc. (in general for each thinkable physical value and equation). Results could then be directly exported as csv-file...

kippo

[Anonymous]

In CHAM PHOENICS, I could import an Excel sheet of specified probe locations, even hundreds of them, specify the CFD data at those points, then get that corresponding data back in Excel.  The probe locations often corresponded to sensor locations in a building or field measurements from a commissioning report.

[Anonymous]

Hi mpotts,

that was the same for me in Fluent. I was also able to define a Point Setting on a rank which was in accordance of positioning of hot-wire velocimeter Points. This was much better than only having a Point Setting like in ADSK or CFX. Additionally, if you check for mass balancing or making a pressure comparison of inlet / outlet, an area averaging is much more robust (less affected of back flows) than using only points.

kippo