Hi everyone,

I did a run for almost 5 days now, and I decided to manually stop the run by clicking on the 'Stop' button. But no results file (.res) had been written yet, and I had been waiting for like 5 hours.

Right now, all i have left are the transient files from the simulation. Is there a way to access these files in CFX-Post without first opening up the *.res file as mine was not written?

I will be a pity to be not able to access these transient results just because of the result file not being available. Pretty sure there is a way to do it, just seems to figure out how.

Hope you guys can help me out and thanks in advance.

Ken

You should be able to view the *.trns result files like any other result file. (File--> Load Results) Or You could goto to Tools and use the timestep selector option.

I can't because the transient file that i had written is not a full transient file. In CFX-Pre, I chose 'Selected variables' for my transient files,which means I can't open it without the result file.

Any other suggestions?

Thanks.

Hi Ken,

You can also open the .trn files if you open a back up (x_full.bak) file in post. It will open all the .trn files up until that .bak timestep, and you can manually load the rest in the "timestep selector" window.

If you did a run for 5 days and don't have any .bak files, you are a much braver man than I.

-Alex

Hi,

Transient results files are visible if you do a full backup, or if you do a reduced backup you need to include the mesh. If you do not include the mesh the file will only be readable if you have a full backup later.

Sounds like you need to rerun the simulation. Make sure you put in regular full backups so you can recover from crashes like this.

Glenn Horrocks

Hi Ken,

I have experienced similar problems when running large simulations.

I tried stopping the simulation but it never finished. Eventually I got tired of waiting and manually killed one of the solver processes. The simulation finished and the results file was written. Apparently the program was hung-up somewhere.

If you're lucky this might be the case for you.

/Kasper

Well, you're not completely lost. You can rerun your simulation for just one (1) timestep and create a res file from that point. In Post, you can than manually import the transient files you already have. I haven't tried that, though. Hope it helps.