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Dear experts,

I am using different design points in the ANSYS workbench to study a heat transfer problem. At each new design point, I would like to measure temperature at three particular points within my geometry, but the positions of the points of interest are different at each design point.

Currently, I get my results using CFD Post (specifying the coordinates of the points, then plotting a graph (Temperature vs Time), and exporting the result into a csv file). However, if I have many design points, it will take a lot of time to access to the result files using my current method.

Therefore, I would appreciate any suggestion about an optimisation of the result collection procedure?

Is there any possibility within ANSYS Workbench 15.0 to set the coordinates of the points of interest into each design point?

Ideally, I want to collect temperature of the points of interest out of all design points into one csv file.

Best regards,
Nurzhan

Make a new CEL variable defined as:

output = if(<some condition which defines which simulation you are in>,probe@point1,probe@point2)

Then you make variable output a parameter and it automatically picks the right monitor point for the simulation.

Thanks Glenn!

The method worked well.

Regards,
Nurzhan

Dear all,

I am trying to do similar thing. Is there a possibility that these locations (coordinates of points) change automatically for every design point, considering that the x,y,z coordinates for each DP can be accessed through the parameter set or through a CST file.

I would not do that sort of thing in Workbench. If you run CFX stand-alone you can use perl to customise the setup of each run, or use a batch file which sets those sort of parameters per run.

do you maybe know how a CST file can be automatically reread for each design point in cfd post? (since the info in cst is changing for each design point) otherwise it leaves the first cst state for all the design points..

I can't think of a way to do that. But I have not experimented with that much.