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Old   September 20, 2007, 22:45
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residual storage in FLUENT?

i can't find residual values in my dat files,what's wrong???

can anyone tell me why?

thanks a lot!
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Old   September 21, 2007, 06:08
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you need to tell fluent to store the residuals in the dat file.
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Old   September 21, 2007, 06:11
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how to tell fluent to store the residuals in the dat file?

i'm not so familar with the TUI,can you tell me?

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Old   September 21, 2007, 07:08
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The following steps can be used to write the solution residuals to a text file.

1. Read the case/data files in FLUENT.

2. Read the Scheme file (init.scm) using the File-->Read-->Scheme command. The content of the Scheme file should be as follows (please copy the content between the dashed line into a text file and save it as 'init.scm'):

-------------------------------------------------------------- (define port) (set! port (open-output-file "residuals.dat"))

(do ((i 0 (+ i 1))) ((= i (length (solver-residuals)))) (format port "~a ~2t" (car (list-ref (solver-residuals) i))) ) (newline port) ---------------------------------------------------------------

3. Set the following execute command at every iteration using Solve --> Execute Commands:

file read-journal residual.jou

The content of the journal file (residual.jou) should be as follows (please copy the content between the dashed line into a text file and save it as 'residual.jou'):

--------------------------------------------------------------- (do ((i 0 (+ i 1))) ((= i (length (solver-residuals)))) (format port "~a ~2t" (cdr (list-ref (solver-residuals) i))) ) (newline port) ---------------------------------------------------------------

4. Now compute the solution using the Solve->Iterate command. This will write out a text file ('residuals.dat') containing the solution residual history.
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Old   September 22, 2007, 00:48
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thanks a lot!

that really works well!

but how to write these scheme command lines?

or must i learn the scheme language?

i have some german document,but i don't say german...

any suggestions?
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Old   September 24, 2007, 22:02
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new question:

now i have to execute the storage process through TUI, but it interrupts with the following error message:

Error: A journal is currently open for input or output. You cannot read and write a journal at the same time, or read two journals simultaneously. Error Object: #f

can anybody give me some advices?

urgent sophie
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Old   September 24, 2007, 22:17
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now i want to describe me error exactly:

i want to store the residual which print in console to be a file,but my process is executed though TUI,i write these commands in my journal file:

;-------------------------------------------------------------- (define port) (set! port (open-output-file "residuals.dat"))

(do ((i 0 (+ i 1))) ((= i (length (solver-residuals)))) (format port "~a ~2t" (car (list-ref (solver-residuals) i))) ) (newline port)

(cx-gui-do cx-activate-item "MenuBar*SolveMenu*Execute Commands...")

(cx-gui-do cx-set-integer-entry "Execute Commands*IntegerEntry1(Defined Commands)" 1)

(cx-gui-do cx-activate-item "Execute Commands*IntegerEntry1(Defined Commands)")

(cx-gui-do cx-set-toggle-button "Execute Commands*Frame2*Table2*CheckButton6" #f)

(cx-gui-do cx-activate-item "Execute Commands*Frame2*Table2*CheckButton6")

(cx-gui-do cx-set-text-entry "Execute Commands*Frame2*Table2*TextEntry10" "(do ((i 0 (+ i 1))) ((= i (length (solver-residuals)))) (format port "~a ~2t" (cdr (list-ref (solver-residuals) i))) ) (newline port)")

(cx-gui-do cx-activate-item "Execute Commands*PanelButtons*PushButton1(OK)")

(cx-gui-do cx-activate-item "Solution Initialization*PanelButtons*PushButton2(Cancel)")

solve/initialize/compute-defaults/pressure-far-field

solve/iterate 20 ;--------------------------------------------------- but the error message:

Error: eval: unbound variable Error Object: ~a

Warning: An error or interrupt occurred while reading the journal file. Some commands may not have been completed.

if i change the line contain ~a to be:

(cx-gui-do cx-set-text-entry "Execute Commands*Frame2*Table2*TextEntry10" "file read-journal residual.jou")

and in the content of the residual.jou is as follows

;--------------------------------------------------------------- (do ((i 0 (+ i 1))) ((= i (length (solver-residuals)))) (format port "~a ~2t" (cdr (list-ref (solver-residuals) i))) ) (newline port) ;---------------------------------------------------------------

the error message: file read-journal Error: A journal is currently open for input or output. You cannot read and write a journal at the same time, or read two journals simultaneously. Error Object: #f residual.jou invalid command [residual.jou]

can you give me some advices?

thanks a lot!

sophie

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Old   May 12, 2014, 03:24
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i have this problem too. there is any alternative for using "" in scheme?
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Old   April 5, 2016, 23:22
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The following steps can be used to write the solution residuals to a text file.

1. Read the case/data files in FLUENT.

2. Read the Scheme file (init.scm) using the File-->Read-->Scheme command. The content of the Scheme file should be as follows (please copy the content between the dashed line into a text file and save it as 'init.scm'):

-------------------------------------------------------------- (define port) (set! port (open-output-file "residuals.dat"))

(do ((i 0 (+ i 1))) ((= i (length (solver-residuals)))) (format port "~a ~2t" (car (list-ref (solver-residuals) i))) ) (newline port) ---------------------------------------------------------------

3. Set the following execute command at every iteration using Solve --> Execute Commands:

file read-journal residual.jou

The content of the journal file (residual.jou) should be as follows (please copy the content between the dashed line into a text file and save it as 'residual.jou'):

--------------------------------------------------------------- (do ((i 0 (+ i 1))) ((= i (length (solver-residuals)))) (format port "~a ~2t" (cdr (list-ref (solver-residuals) i))) ) (newline port) ---------------------------------------------------------------

4. Now compute the solution using the Solve->Iterate command. This will write out a text file ('residuals.dat') containing the solution residual history.

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Thank you very much.
Doing the above commands writes a list of residuals without the time flow or time step. Is there a way to do that?

How to add time step or time flow before the residuals?? (Either one)
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Thank you very much.
Doing the above commands writes a list of residuals without the time flow or time step. Is there a way to do that?

How to add time step or time flow before the residuals?? (Either one)
You can just edit the scheme so far and tell it to print the time-step and flow-time. The scheme variable names for these are time-step and flow-time.
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You can just edit the scheme so far and tell it to print the time-step and flow-time. The scheme variable names for these are time-step and flow-time.
Thanks. But not familiar with c++ prog so where to put it? Like this:

(do ((i 0 (+ i 1))) ((= i (length (flow-time, solver-residuals)))) (format port "~a ~2t" (car (list-ref (solver-residuals) i))) ) (newline port)
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Thanks. But not familiar with c++ prog so where to put it? Like this:

(do ((i 0 (+ i 1))) ((= i (length (flow-time, solver-residuals)))) (format port "~a ~2t" (car (list-ref (solver-residuals) i))) ) (newline port)
Hello!

Did it work?

I have tried with:

(do ((i 0 (+ i 1))) ((= i (length (flow-time, solver-residuals)))) (format port "~a ~2t" (car (list-ref (flow-time, solver-residuals) i))) ) (newline port)

and

(do ((i 0 (+ i 1))) ((= i (length (time-step, solver-residuals)))) (format port "~a ~2t" (car (list-ref (time-step, solver-residuals) i))) ) (newline port)

and always get the same error:

Error: eval: unbound variable
Error Object: time-step

Error: eval: unbound variable
Error Object: flow-time

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Old   June 5, 2017, 18:02
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Btw folks, in Fluent v18 residuals are available as a report so that you don't need these silly workarounds to write the residuals to a file. You still need a reader though.
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Btw folks, in Fluent v18 residuals are available as a report so that you don't need these silly workarounds to write the residuals to a file. You still need a reader though.
Thaks! Really good news!

I was searching for it in 18 version. I guess it may be on: Report Files> Create a new Report File > New Report Definitions..... but how to get the residuals of the continuity, velocities and my different UDS?

Should I create my own Report with DEFINE_REPORT_DEFINITION_FN ?

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Thaks! Really good news!

I was searching for it in 18 version. I guess it may be on: Report Files> Create a new Report File > New Report Definitions..... but how to get the residuals of the continuity, velocities and my different UDS?

Should I create my own Report with DEFINE_REPORT_DEFINITION_FN ?
Oops. I might have confused myself after glancing at the original post. I was thinking you could write all cell residuals as a data file... by using
solve/set/expert n y n n (the defaults are n n n n)
This enable access to the cell residuals and then defining reports or using solution data export. A sum over all cells I think is what the Fluent window output is using (it might be another averaging operation), you should test it if you want to be sure.

This approach really should be doable in versions before 18 as well.
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Sorry! Maybe I didn't explain myself correctly. As u said, I want to copy to a file the plotted residuals or the numbers appearing in the command window, for example:

iter continuity x-velocity y-velocity z-velocity uds-0 uds-1 uds-2 uds-3 uds-4 time/iter
! 116 solution is converged
116 0.0000e+00 0.0000e+00 0.0000e+00 0.0000e+00 4.5547e-08 6.3906e-07 4.5547e-08 5.2988e-08 1.5437e-08 0:00:00 20
117 0.0000e+00 0.0000e+00 0.0000e+00 0.0000e+00 4.3878e-08 1.5746e-03 4.3878e-08 2.5311e-04 4.0493e-05 0:00:00 19
! 118 solution is converged
118 0.0000e+00 0.0000e+00 0.0000e+00 0.0000e+00 4.5545e-08 6.3959e-07 4.5545e-08 5.0686e-08 1.2597e-08 0:00:00 18
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Dear rarnaunot,

I have the exact same issue as you.
I'm currently using Fluent v18.2 with the following lines in my journal file:
/solve/set/expert yes no no
/plot/residuals-set/plot-to-file "Residuals.txt"

This only creates an empty text file as you mentioned.

Besides, I have also tried the work around with the scheme file (described at several places on this forum) but it also doesn't work. In this case I get a text file with only one line of residuals that gets re-written at every iteration as described in the second part of my post:

Saving the residuals in a dat file from TUI


Any help would be greatly appreciated here.

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Hi EmiS,

I have the same problem and wonder if you have figured it out. If so would you please share your thoughts.

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Dear Aziz,

Sorry I still haven't figured out how to save the residuals properly in a text file from the TUI journal. The "poor-man" solution I'm using is to save the log history into a text file and use a Python script to parse through the file, save the information about the residuals and plot it.

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Thank you EmiS for your reply I really appreciate it
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