[hand90]

Hi everyone

I have a transient simulation of a simple pipe flow with a pressure gradient. I am interested in the pressure fluctuation. The pressure fluctuation is defined by:
p'=p-p_mean

To evaluate the mean pressure I selected the arithmetic pressure average in CFX-Pre which was successful evaluated.
I then created an expression "Pressure-Pressure.Trnavg". However I realized that "Pressure.Trnavg" is only accessible at the Full-Final time step. This prevents me to look at the pressure fluctuation at any specific time step.

Does anyone know how I can change the expression so that Pressure.Trnavg is always at the final time step giving me the correct pressure fluctuation?

Your help is much appreciated!

[ghorrocks]

I would recommend doing post-processing like this outside of CFX. Use a monitor point to export the data, then do your post processing in matlab, python, excel or whatever you like.

[hand90]

Thank you for your quick responds!

I have been using monitor points and then post process the data in excel and matlab. However monitor points only gives me a snapshot of what is happening at a certain point in the domain while I am trying to see how the pressure fluctuation propagates through the entire domain (2D domain). Currently I am considering looking into ParaView but was hoping that there is a solution for this in CFD Post.

Any idea?

[ghorrocks]

Here's a work around. I am not certain it works, but worth a try: Try defining a new variable, defined as Pressure.Trnavg. Make sure you are at the final time step so the variable is defined. Then go back to a previous time step and hopefully the new variable keeps its values, and then you can evaluate p-(New Variable).

[Gert-Jan]

Alternative:
- export the Pressure.Trnavg field as 3D-csv.
- import it into Pre and assign it to an additional variable.
- continue the calculation for one period, while saving pressure and the add.variable to the required transient results files.

This will give you the actual pressure and the average pressure at each timestep, allowing you to calculate the difference.

[hand90]

I can confirm that ghorrocks method worked.

1. Choose the correct time step
2. Create a new variable (Method: Frozen Copy)
3. The new variable can then be used in any expression at any time step, keeping the "Frozen" value.

So far I have not tried the second method suggested but I may try it in the future.

Thank you for your help