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October 14, 2001, 05:05 |
error estimation for grid independence
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hi,
I want to know if fluent has any capability to measure the error using the x-y plot which contains two curves say pressure distribution curves. If the answer is no,can anybody tell me if there are any tools/softwares available to do this and also if it is available on the net. thanks and regards, santosh |
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October 16, 2001, 06:11 |
Re: error estimation for grid independence
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No, to my knowledge, Fluent does not have such an error analysis option. What you can do is write (in the "Plot/XY plot" panel, check "write to file" box) the two curves, i.e. get 2 ascii files containing 2 columns each (e.g. distance vs pressure_gradient) and read them in a spreadsheet (e.g. Excel). Then you can do further post-processing in order to calculate the error between the two runs.
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October 16, 2001, 07:25 |
Re: error estimation for grid independence
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thank u for the reply,dimitris.
one more thing,may sound silly,since the grid resolution is different for the two xy files the vector size will be different.How can I calculate the error between two different size vectors? thanks and regards, santosh |
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October 17, 2001, 16:06 |
Re: error estimation for grid independence
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If the geometry is the same in both meshes you will have two curves (in XY plot) starting and ending at the same x values but with different number and distribution of points. Now there are two solutions:
1. You calculate a fit for both of them (e.g. of a polynomial form in Excel or in another data handling program) and from their analytical form calculate the error at certain x values of your choice. 2. For certain x values of your choice interpolate (say a linearly) from the two neighbouring values in order to find the y value at that point for both results. Then find the relative error. for example you may have these 2 data sets: set 1 set 2 x y x y 1.1 3.4 0.98 3.6 2.1 4.5 1.3 4.1 3.1 4.4 2.5 4.6 so if you want to find the error in x=2 you interpolate between points 1 & 2 for dataset 1 and between points 2 & 3 of dataset 2. You find the two interpolated values and then find the error in x=2. |
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