ANSYS CFD-Post

Within a modern and intuitive user interface, ANSYS CFD-Post sets no limits on creativity when generating powerful images to illustrate the flow in any desired level of detail. From vector plots and streamlines to vortex cores and flow animations, ANSYS CFD-Post provides users all the tools they need to produce insightful solution visualizations, including 3D images viewable by anyone with the freely distributable 3D viewer. These high-quality visuals are invaluable in communicating results to colleagues and customers, helping to explain and understand complex flow phenomena.

High-end graphical post-processing is only one part of ANSYS CFD-Post; its quantitative post-processing abilities are at least as important and powerful. With the functions of ANSYS CFD-Post at their fingertips, users can quickly get all the data they need out of their calculation: weighted averages, mass flows, forces, maximum/minimum values, and many more functions enable precise analysis of the CFD results. Add tabulated results presentation, chart plotting, special turbomachinery functionality, and automatic report generation, and there is virtually no limit to the post-processing possibilities in ANSYS CFD-Post.

The final touch is automation: Users can easily create macros, for example by recording the interactive steps in a session file for replay and re-use with similar cases, and create images, charts, tables, and reports automatically for different simulation results. CFD-Post can also be run completely in batch mode, for fully automated processes and integration in optimization.

ANSYS CFD-Post allows multiple solution datasets to be loaded simultaneously, significantly easing the comparison of different design alternatives or operating conditions. Results can be examined side-by-side with synchronized views, as well as synchronized time for transient results (including FSI results). Additionally, differences between two results can be computed and analyzed both qualitatively and quantitatively.

Different designs can be compared directly in ANSYS CFD-Post, both visually and quantitatively

All images created in ANSYS CFD-Post can, of course, be saved in standard 2D image formats like jpg and png. However, often it is difficult to find the right 2D views to effectively communicate results to managers, customers, and colleagues. For these situations, ANSYS CFD-Post provides the ability to write 3D image files that anybody with the can be viewed using a freely-distributable 3-D viewer from ANSYS CFD. It is even possible to embed these images in applications like MS-PowerPoint and add a new dimension to presentations.

Free Downloadable Viewer

Each session in ANSYS CFD-Post includes a standard template for report generation. Simple selection and de-selection of items to include in the report allows users to customize the content, including any user-defined text, images, charts, or tables, as well as the company logo at the top. The report is dynamic, updating automatically with new datasets. The final report can then be exported to html, optionally with 3D images.

Automatically generated reports can be easily customized to include company logos, 2D or 3D images, tables summarizing analysis input and results, and line charts

ANSYS CFD-Post provides a dedicated mode for post-processing turbomachinery simulation results, starting with the ability to produce plots in a meridional view (e.g. circumferentially-averaged solution values) and unrolled blade-to-blade views at any span-wise position between hub and shroud. Specific turbomachinery charting options and templates for automatic reports for different types of machines complete this key component of the suite of turbomachinery simulation tools from ANSYS.

ANSYS CFD-Post features numerous post-processing options specifically designed to meet the needs of turbomachinery analysts

Whether simulations are steady or transient, animations help bring CFD results to life. Animations can be quickly defined, including powerful keyframe settings, and the resulting animation saved to high quality and compact MPEG-4 output formats. Together with the many graphical features and rendering options like texturing, animations from ANSYS CFD-Post are guaranteed to make a strong impression.

Flow Animation

To quickly probe the solution and perform integral operations on the results data, ANSYS CFD Post provides a range of functions with its integrated calculators. The same functions can also be applied in a powerful expression language that is part of ANSYS CFD Post, to extract values from the original data, or from any desired derived variables and quantities not in the original dataset.

ANSYS CFD-Post incorporates a powerful expression language for analyzing results and deriving additional quantities, including in tables and with built-in calculators