CFD Online Discussion Forums

CFD Online Discussion Forums (https://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/)
-   FLUENT (https://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/fluent/)
-   -   Time-averaging of variables along a line (https://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/fluent/180047-time-averaging-variables-along-line.html)

Fcamp November 15, 2016 09:35

Time-averaging of variables along a line
 
Hello all,

I have already run a series of simulations for my CFD problem in Fluent, unfortunately without selecting the "Data Sampling for Time Statistic" option :(

Now I urgently need to obtain the time-averaged data of a few variables (velocity, vorticity) along a line - which i drew in CFD-Post - of in the last 36 time steps. I have the dat.gz files of those time steps.

Is there a way in which I can avoid to manually save the data for every time step? It would be insanely time consuming!

Thank you in advance for any suggestions

LuckyTran November 15, 2016 13:04

Isn't it possible to export the time-averaged data on the lines? The time-averaged data show up as new variables with new names. You should be able to export those variables on any surface (the lines you created).

Fcamp November 15, 2016 13:20

Thank you for your reply, even though I'm not sure i understand it. Maybe I haven't described my problem clearly!

I'm working in CFD Post, and I have drawn a line inside the domain for which I am able to obtain the contour plot of velocity and vorticity, for every single time step (I don't have time-averaged data, only the dat.gz files that i saved every N timesteps!).
Now what I need is the time-average of those contour plots. Do you know if there is a method to automate this process? It takes ages to export every single contour plot in excel and manually average them :(


All times are GMT -4. The time now is 23:53.