How to extract data from a completed transient simulation without re-running the case
 

I am using ANSYS Fluent to simulate a transient flow field. The case has been run for a physical time of 150 s, with the data saved every 0.5 s (physical time). Thus, I have 300 .dat file after the simulation.

During post-processing (using CFD-Post, EnSight), I want to extract the time history of temperature and velocity for some sample points. Could I achieve this goal without re-running the simulation for another 150 s physical time, which is painfully long?

To clariy, I did monitor one point and saved its time history during the Fluent solving process. But that’s not enough. Now I want to extract more information from this completed transient simulation.

Yes you can. Not in Fluent, but in CFD-Post you can. You can probably also do it using EnSight.


Create the point in CFD-post. Create a chart. Go to data series and blah blah blah.