FieldView for POLYFLOW and FIDAP Users

ANSYS POLYFLOW is a leading CFD solver with strength in viscoelastic flows, polymer processing, glass forming, and large deformation process simulations. POLYFLOW is a powerful tool for Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI) problems. ANSYS FIDAP has a loyal following in researching the physics of materials and biomedical, and nuclear industries.

POLYFLOW users have long used FieldView as the standard post-processor. The latest release of FieldView delivers dramatic capability and productivity benefits. There are two versions available for POLYFLOW users:

  • FieldView Version 12 - support for a wide range of solution data formats and parallel capability.

  • FieldView for POLYFLOW Version 12 - Will read POLYFLOW and FIDAP data and provide most standard FieldView functionality. It is available to existing FieldView for POLYFLOW users as a no-costs upgrade to your current license. More info

Multi-physics simulations, such as Fluid-Structure Interaction present unique challenges for post-processing. Results may come from a single solver code, such as POLYFLOW or via coupling codes such as FLUENT and ANSYS. Many well established features of FieldView can be easily applied to these types of problems including:

  • Automation with RESTARTS, SCRIPTING and FieldView FVX™
  • Dynamic Clipping: interactively trim off visible areas of your model to expose details
  • Quantification through numerical dataset comparisons
  • Integration and probing

Animations are frequently used to help understand the complexities of Fluid Structure Interactions. The creation of animations is straightforward and flexible in FieldView.

Single-Click Animation

Through the use of the Merged Times feature of FieldView, the user may create a transient animation from multiple datasets with the click of a single button. The user can easily animate and create flipbooks simultaneously presenting both structural deformations and fluid flow features.

When interactively exploring datasets or creating presentation material, dataset sweeps can be created that span all the datasets in a FieldView session. Here again, a single button click will result in the creation of flipbook animations with multiple swept surfaces. It is that easy and the entire process can be automated for repeatability and consistency.

Interactive exploration and collaboration with FieldView ATViewer
FieldView ATViewer allows your steady and unsteady simulations to be explored interactively on systems without a FieldView license. FieldView ATViewer delivers high performance interactive exploration without animations of data of all sizes. The viewer is free and is a great tool for sharing data with colleagues and customers.

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