CFD Visualization & Analysis

CFD Visualization & Analysis Tecplot 360 is a visual data analysis tool that improves your productivity with integrated XY, 2D, and 3D plotting. It’s fast, easy to use, memory efficient, producing visually powerful output.

3D plot courtesy of NASA.gov 2017 release includes Tecplot Chorus, PyTecplot and SZL Server!

Analyze Complex Results • Load Tecplot, Fluent, Plot3D, CGNS, OpenFOAM data and 23 other CFD, FEA, structural New in 2017*: analysis and industry-standard data formats. • Report and compare solutions in a multi-frame environment with multiple pages. • Tecplot Chorus: • Understand XY, Polar, 2D and 3D plots using unique linking capabilities. Explore large datasets • Animate and step through transient solutions with video player-style controls like forward, composed of multiple solutions backward, loop, bounce and throttle control. or experiments. • Explore with interactive slice, iso-surface and streamtrace tools. • Automatically extract key-flow features such as vortex cores and shock surfaces. • PyTecplot: Link workflows together Explore Billion Cell Models and benefit from the • Leverage multi-core desktop systems with multi-threaded capability. power, speed and • Dramatically improve performance with SZL. Benchmark for 183M cell CFD++ solution: 6.75 flexibility of a times faster load time, 93% reduced peak memory usage, 50% file compression. Python API. • Analyze large data sets quickly and easily on a typical engineering laptop. • SZL Server: Access your data Verify Engineering Designs remotely. • Assess your grid quality with 28 grid quality functions including aspect ratios, skewness, orthogonality and stretch factors. *Available to customers • Validate computational output with experimental data in a single plotting environment. with TecPLUS™ Service. • Interactively explore and sweep through flow field, check that flow features align to grid. • Compare multiple models simultaneously, including Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI) visualization. Communicate and Publish Reports • Copy and paste images directly into Microsoft Oﬃce applications. • Export professional, presentation-quality vector and raster formats. • Present multiple, time-linked views of your plots with Tecplot’s unique multi-frame layout workspace. Create reports using unique multi-page layouts. • Create animations for PowerPoint and the web. Automate Routine Tasks Learn About • PyTecplot, a Python API, runs in batch mode for powerful workflow automation. Tecplot 360: • Instantly apply a plot’s style attributes and layouts to a diﬀerent set of data with layout and style files. • Leverage 1000’s of macro functions to automate common analysis and plotting tasks. www.tecplot.com/360 • Create human readable text based macros by recording on screen actions.

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Analysis Exploration (cont.) Plot Annotation CFD Analyzer: Examine grid quality, perform spatial Text: Place text interactively on plot. Use all your integrations, generate particle trajectories, extract flow Data Blanking: Set multiple constraints (masks) to system fonts with TrueType capabilities. Set color, features and estimate numerical errors. blank display of data based on local field variables, angle, size, font, background color and justification. functions of variables and grid indices. Omit zones or Function Calculator: Calculate over 90 grid and flow peel away surfaces to highlight specific details. Geometries: Interactively create polylines, rectangular boxes, circles, and ellipses. Duplicate, field functions. Calculate new variables using common Extraction Tools: Interactively define point or polyline math operations. Perform data normalization. reposition and resize geometries. Modify geometries sets to which 2D and 3D surface data is interpolated interactively and read from a file. Integrations: Integrate over lines, surfaces and and extracted for display as a separate plot. volumes. Calculate volumes, areas, flow rates, forces Unsteady Data: Load and explore time-dependent Images: Import JPEG, BMP,and PNG files into plots. and moments. Apply weighting options to calculate solutions with ease. Use video-like controls. Show total pressure. Integrate by time zone or time strand. multiple views of data through time. See current time step point value on XY plot with Time Marker. Step Output Formats Particle Paths: Integrate particle trajectories in steady Vector-based and Raster Plot Files: Export vector- and unsteady flows. Calculate paths of particles with through and animate solution time across frames with Time Linking. based files in Postscript, encapsulated PostScript (EPS) mass and drag efects. and Windows Metafile formats. Export raster files in Feature Extractions: Detect and extract shock surfaces, Time-series Probe: Extract single point or node over PNG, JPEG, BMP and TIFF formats. Configure image vortex cores, flow separation and reattachment lines. time and plot result in new frame as an XY line plot. resolution independent of screen resolution.

Error Analysis: Estimate the order of accuracy of Extract Objects Over Time: Extract slices, iso-surfaces, Animations: Export to Flash (SWF), MPEG-4, WMV and your numerical solutions using Richardson streamtraces and points from polyline geometries PowerPoint-compatible AVIs. extrapolation analysis. in transient data. Finite Element Analysis (FEA): Derive Von Mises Data Input stress/strain, principal stresses/strains and Automation SZL Server: SZL Server is a lightweight data server that vector magnitude. Plot the geometry with PyTecplot: Tecplot’s Python API gives you the ability is installed on your HPC or remote file store (including deformations and exaggerated deformations to access your CFD data directly and to control your cloud resources like Amazon’s AWS). applied. Animate displacements. workflows with one popular and easy-to-use language. CFD Formats: CGNS, FLOW-3D, ANSYS CFX, FLUENT .cas Create, Alter and Transform Data: Alter data or create Configuration and Batch Files: Set defaults and and .dat format and polyhedra, OpenFOAM, PLOT3D, new data using mathematical expressions. Store perform initialization with configuration files and Tecplot and polyhedra, Ensight Gold, HDF5 and TRIX. mathematical expressions. Create mirror images of start-up batch files. Data Formats: HDF, Excel (Windows only), comma- or data. Create new data as subset of existing data. Write Tecplot Macros: Use 1000’s of macro functions space-delimited ASCII. conditional expressions using the IF() function. Rotate including loops and other common programming and duplicate data around an axis. functions. Run macros with the click of a button by FEA Formats: ABAQUS, ANSYS, FIDAP Neutral, LSTC/ DYNA input file, LSTC/DYNA, MSC/NASTRAN, MSC/ Interpolate and Triangulate: Choose from linear, registering them in the macro sidebar. Patran, PTC/Mechanica, SDRC/IDEAS universal and 3D inverse-distance and kriging interpolation. Create sets Systems STL. of triangles from data points defined in a 2D plane. Collaboration Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT): Transform one- Cross-Platform Capability: Run Tecplot 360 on dimensional ordered linear data into the frequency machines running Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Line, 2D, 3D, and domain for visualization and further analysis. Interchange Tecplot 360 macro files, layout files, Polar Plotting stylesheets, color map files and data files between all Time and Dates: Display on any axis. platform types. Exploration XY Features: Create scatter plots, line plots, bar charts, Tecplot Chorus: Included with Tecplot 360 2017, this Extensible Data Writers: Build custom data exporters semi-log plots, log-log plots, error bar plots, splines, tool has a unique set of features that help you explore to write data in custom formats, or use built-in tools to curve-fits and more. Configure tick marks, symbols, large data sets from multiple simulations. export Tecplot data in formats compatible with 2006, legends and more. Work with multiple horizontal and 2008 or SZL (.szplt) format. Slicing Tool: Interactively slice 3D and surface data vertical axes. displaying mesh, contours and vectors on the slice Mesh Plots: Display 1D, 2D and 3D grids. Color mesh plane. Constrain the extent of a slice to user-defined Working with Large lines by variable. ranges. Define and use up to eight diferent slice groups. Data Sets Contour Plots: Display contour lines, color flood Parallel Processing (shared memory): Leverage between contour levels and color fill cells (or Iso-surface Tool: Change iso-surface values up to 64 CPUs/Cores for faster computing-intensive elements). Use multiple contour variables to view interactively. Define and use up to eight diferent operations, such as streamtraces, slices and and analyze interrelationships among several iso-surface groups on one or more variables. iso-surfaces. variables simultaneously.

Streamtrace Tool: Interactively seed rakes of Multiple Data Sets: Create and display plots from up to Vector Plots: Display 2D and 3D vectors on planes, streamlines, streamrods and streamribbons in 2D and 2048 diferent sets of data simultaneously. 3D surfaces and in volumes. Display 3D vector 3D. Specify lines to terminate streamlines. Display components tangent to 3D surface. Specify length, markers along streamlines spaced by Multiple Zones & Variables: Include up to 1 million color, line type and head style. Color by variable. vector magnitude. Auto seed streamtraces segments/zones per data set, up to 1 million variables on a selected surface. (X, Y, Z, U, etc.) per data point. Polar Plot Features: Create polar line plots (r, theta). Configure angles in radians, degrees or arbitrary units. Contour Tool: Accurately control contour levels on a Multi-Page Layout: Create up to 2,048 plots per page. Select between linear or logarithmic radius. per variable basis and leverage up to eight contour groups in a single frame. Interactively add or delete Fluid-structure Interaction (FSI): Load structural contour lines or levels to refine variable fine structure. analysis and CFD solutions simultaneously to see material deformation and fluid flow changes Curve Fits: Use least squares linear, polynomial, power in one plot. and exponential curve-fits. Use least squares curve-fit for linear combination of user-specified functions.

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