[guillaumeGrimard]

Hello, for my thesis I have to do some sPOD post processing on my LES simulation in Matlab. Currently I export an ASCII file and read it into Matlab with a text import. The ASCII files are MASSIVE and the Matlab .mat files take up an order of magnitude less space on my hard drive. This tells me that ASCII files don't have a high information / byte ratio. Is there a way to export fluent data that is readable by Matlab that has a lower file size? thanks for the help

[bw91]

Did you ever find a solution to this? I am in an almost identical position.

[guillaumeGrimard]

Originally Posted by bw91

Did you ever find a solution to this? I am in an almost identical position.

Hi, yes I found that it is possible to read out the cas.h5 and .dat.h5 format as HDF5 with Python and Matlab. But it will require a good amount of programming work, also it can be challenging to reconstruct the mesh because it is stored in a clever format & there is not a lot of documententation from ANSYS, but it is possible to reverse engineer. https://github.com/ggrimard/ANSYSfluent is a repo I created in my free time to read the mesh into python.

[bw91]

Oh that's awesome. Do you have a different link though? The one provided leads to a "page not found."

[guillaumeGrimard]

It should work now, repo was set to private

[bw91]

Yep, all good. Thanks

[alireza94]

Originally Posted by guillaumeGrimard

Hello, for my thesis I have to do some sPOD post processing on my LES simulation in Matlab. Currently I export an ASCII file and read it into Matlab with a text import. The ASCII files are MASSIVE and the Matlab .mat files take up an order of magnitude less space on my hard drive. This tells me that ASCII files don't have a high information / byte ratio. Is there a way to export fluent data that is readable by Matlab that has a lower file size? thanks for the help

Hey Guillaume,
I need an assist with SPOD, and I'm wondering whether you could help with that. I'm simulating the flow passing from a rectangular wall-mounted cylinder, I like to do some SPOD on it. Right now, I got my output from OpenFoam in VTK file and I read them in Python. My problem is that the point data are not in structured shape, and they are some points with x and y coordinates and pressure values (in 2d plane) so I need to make a grid mesh and interpolate the data (as far as I know the point information must have regular shape and spacing, or at least the PySPOD developed like this) on this mesh, the point is if I do make a grid mesh to interpolate the data, it creates points inside the cylinder as well and then it tries to interpolate the value inside the cylinder as well that in non-physical!

What should I do at this stage?