[Ericson]

What is the diffrence between opening fluent from workbench and opening fluent directly?
in this case we have meshing file..

[CFDYourself]

they are both the same program. there's no real difference.

Opening in workbench is good for:
- meshing
- advanced functionality in workbench (such as design optimisaitons)
- comparing several results
- postprocessing in CFD post

Opening in fluent standalone is good for:
- running UDFs
- high load simulations.

in my work I use fluent standalone exclusively, then import the data afterwards if I want to use CFD post.

[Mounarah]

Hello, please how to save a fluent standalone file and how to open the results in cfd post after finishing running in standaone. Thanks

[AlexanderZ]

file -> write -> case and data

read case and data in cfd post

[Mounarah]

Thanks Alexander. For the saving i have 2 options either write case and data which is a manual method or autosave which would be automaticaly or i should do write case and data before running the cas and then i apply autosave. Thanks for clearing

[MKuhn]

You need only to save the case-file once and then only if you change some settings (boundary conditions, solution methods, models and so on). Save the data file after the solution. You can also write the data file before the solution, in this case you have only the initialization data in it.



Use the autosave function to save the data file
* for longer steady state problems, to prevent the loss of solution data if the solver crashed
* for transient problems, if you are interested in the data for certain time steps.
Be careful for large case files, short intervalls will produce many files and much GB. There is an option to retain only the recents files.

[thesis-bloke]

Is there a possibility of me using a ROM directly through a standalone fluent? using a case and data file does not provide the extraction of ROM results which is tragic. Can anyone help me with this, its for my thesis project.