[Liusst]

Hello everyone ! I have lots of points coordinates, and I want to create these points in fluent, and export these points pressure values.It is lots of points , what is an easy way to achieve it？Thank you in advance!

[sbaffini]

My usual approach is to use a scripting language (say, octave/MATLAB) to produce a journal which will achieve that.

Still, this is the wrong forum to ask. A dedicated Fluent one exists.

[Liusst]

Originally Posted by sbaffini

My usual approach is to use a scripting language (say, octave/MATLAB) to produce a journal which will achieve that.

Still, this is the wrong forum to ask. A dedicated Fluent one exists.

It is very kind of you ! But I am new in fluent , can you give me an example or some materials to learn that ? Thank you!

[sbaffini]

Originally Posted by Liusst

It is very kind of you ! But I am new in fluent , can you give me an example or some materials to learn that ? Thank you!

The Fluent manual is the primary source to know that you can use Fluent with journal files and to actually do that.

After that you should realize that the journal commands exactly fit the Fluent Text User Interface (TUI) commands.

So, either by looking into the manual or, better, by trial and error, you should try to find the required set of TUI commands needed to, say, define a point and use that point as you want for a monitor.

Once you do that, you need to write a script that, in some smart way, can write all the commands you need to, say, enter a lot of point coordinates and define monitors for them.

Finally you give the output of the script to Fluent, to read it as a journal.

You can find attached a matlab script doing something similar to what you want to do. Honestly, i don't remember what exactly, you should try it by yourself to see how it works. You can obviously change the part where the points are defined to whatever method you have to define your points (reading from file, etc.).

Obviously there might be other ways to achieve that (like scheme language in Fluent), but this is my preferred choice.

[Liusst]

Originally Posted by sbaffini

The Fluent manual is the primary source to know that you can use Fluent with journal files and to actually do that.

After that you should realize that the journal commands exactly fit the Fluent Text User Interface (TUI) commands.

So, either by looking into the manual or, better, by trial and error, you should try to find the required set of TUI commands needed to, say, define a point and use that point as you want for a monitor.

Once you do that, you need to write a script that, in some smart way, can write all the commands you need to, say, enter a lot of point coordinates and define monitors for them.

Finally you give the output of the script to Fluent, to read it as a journal.

You can find attached a matlab script doing something similar to what you want to do. Honestly, i don't remember what exactly, you should try it by yourself to see how it works. You can obviously change the part where the points are defined to whatever method you have to define your points (reading from file, etc.).

Obviously there might be other ways to achieve that (like scheme language in Fluent), but this is my preferred choice.

Thanks for your help!

[mz_uon]

Hi Liusst

Did you achieve this? I am trying to do this exactly. Can you please help?

Regards

[rav-nu]

Originally Posted by mz_uon

Hi Liusst

Did you achieve this? I am trying to do this exactly. Can you please help?

Regards

Not sure if this is the most efficient way but it works for me. So I get a list of points with their name on an spreadsheet (col1: point name, col2: x, col3: y and col4: z). Then on the fourth column I combine it with the TUI command ="point-surface "&<col1>&" "&<col2>&" "&col<3>&" "&<col4>

I then paste these on the console after navigating to "surface/" or include it in my journal file.

[mz_uon]

Hi rav-nu

Thanks for your message. Yes, it worked out using the journal file.
Now, is there a way to do it for CFD-post then?

Regards