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Old   January 24, 2012, 04:36
Default Saving entire transient simulation data for postprocessing.
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Hello everyone,

I wanted to know if it was possible to save the entire simulation data for doing the post processing. I mean right now, I define what I want to analyse in preprocessing and in case I forget to create monitors and plots for some parameters I have to run the simulation all over again. Is it possible to just run the simulation and do whatever postprocessing I want later? I know the output file would be huge but I dont have any hard drive issues here so its not a problem.


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The only way i know is to create monitors which collect the data for every timestep or every second, third ... timestep. You are able to export the monitor as an table after your simuation has finished.
Maybe you can also write an macro which fills up a table of all the data you are interested in for every timestep. But i dont have experience in writing macros.
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Old   January 24, 2012, 20:51
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If you're not concerned about disk space or convergence time, you could set Auto Save so that your simulation file is saved every n timesteps and set a very large Max Autosaved Files value. Then you could go back and use a macro to extract whatever value you're interested in from all the .sim files.

I'm sure there's an easier way than this, but it's all I can think of for now.
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Old   January 24, 2012, 21:12
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Look into "Calculating a Moving Average" using monitors.
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Old   February 2, 2012, 11:02
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You can use the "Auto Export" feature, which saves your chosen scalars, vectors etc in the whole domain or in parts of it.
This can be done with a specified frequency and into a number of different formats. These files can then be imported into a 3rd party software which handles timeresolved data.

Hope this helps.
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Old   February 23, 2012, 06:26
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Thanks a lot Josh and Johan! I will check it out.
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Old   February 27, 2012, 03:52
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Hey Johan,

I tried the auto export feature and it works fine but the output file is just too huge. I mean, I was expecting like 20Gb but it was over 100Gb. I am doing an intercooler simulation and I run 8 to 10 cycles of a given input data set. I am only interested in the solution data from the last cycle. Is there a way to export data only from a given iteration number, i.e. the beginning of the last cycle?

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P.S. I might have selected way too many variables for the export. may be thats why the file was so huge, still I would like to export only the last cycle data.
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You can't expect to save the full set of results in a tiny file! When you're using autosave, it will save a complete sim-file every time the save is triggered. So it should be easy to calculate the amount of data, and that's usually a huge amount.

What might help you is to use v7.02 which will be released in the next two weeks ish. This version contains the first release of transient postprocessing which is better suitable for your problem than saving the whole sim-file after every time step. But you still need to think in advance which data to export, otherwise your hard disk still might be filled up pretty quick.
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Old   March 5, 2012, 02:22
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Thanks abdul that explains a lot.

and thanks for the tip too.

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