FieldView for the turbomachinery industry

Rotating machinery simulations are complex and transient. The geometry changes from deformation and variations in operating environment such as intake velocity and temperature, air pressure, and gas mixture. Analyzing and understanding these challenging simulations requires:

  • Dynamic region files and native coordinates
    • RTZ for radial compressor engineering
    • RTX for axial compressor engineering
  • Advanced high performance computing (HPC) resources
  • Automatically identifying important flow features
  • Interactively interrogating large datasets
  • Recognizing critical values
  • Maximum impact output for presentation and publication
FieldView for turbomachinery. FLUENT simulation results, courtesy of Fluent, Inc.

FLUENT simulation results, courtesy of Fluent, Inc.

Dynamic region files
  • Relative or absolute frames of reference
    • Change streamlines on the fly
  • Rotational periodicity
    • Replicate single passage to complete assembly (what does that mean?)
    • Extend streamlines to be periodic across domains
Advanced high performance computing resources

The sophisticated algorithms and data-handling capabilites built into FieldView allow you to post-process large simulations from your in-house or commercial solver. FieldView is extremely fast even when processing the most sophisticated data. Its HPC data handlers make it easy to manage and store your biggest problems.

Automatically identify important flow features

With just a few clicks, FieldView will identify important flow features:

  • Detect tip vortices, follow path of shed vortices, find root vortices
  • Differentiate between pressure and suction sides of blades to evaluate cooling holes
Interactively interrogate large datasets
  • Place streamline or streakline seeds anywhere in your data and move them around with ease
  • Use PointProbe to isolate data values at any location in your model
  • Change the model orientation easily, usually without decimation
  • Make specific geometry invisible or transparent without losing its contribution to the model
Maximum impact output for presentation and publication
  • Presentation rendering option produces stunning images with volumes of data clearly represented
  • Create animations easily in a wide variety of standard file formats
  • Use FVX scripting to rapidly regenerate animations or images when data changes
  • Create standalone plots to stand alone or be combined with and image
  • EMF and Postscript output for crisp, clean text