[Bldg-sim] MicroFlo: Exporting CFD Result as a Text File

[Cheney]

Hi Mostapha,

Theoretically, it is possible to export a txt file with whole bunch of
information generated by a CFD simulation. Actually some commercial CFD
program, such as CFX and CFX-post, may fulfil your requirements.

Microflo in VE is only a simplified CFD module which targets on simple yet
straightforward building CFD analysis. With its visual outputs and bunch of
interested monitor points(quantitative data), I can generate pretty decent
report for the customers in the construction industry. We are not doing
research and seeking very in-depth analysis of the fluid mechanics (you will
not use Microflo if you are). From this point of view, I can't see any
improvement in Mircroflo in the near future. Liam, as the expert in this
area, please correct me if I've made the wrong judgement.

Cheers,

Cheney

On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Mostapha Sadeghipour
<sadeghipour at gmail.com>wrote:

> Good day,
>
> Thank you so much for your help. It would be helpful for now but any hope
> to have improvements in this case in the near future?
>
> Regards,
> Mostapha
>
> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 11:16 AM, IES Worldwide Technical Support <
> support at iesve.com> wrote:
>
>>   Enquiry Reference Number: *34906
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>>
>> Dear Mostapha,
>>
>> There is no way at present to output the CFD results over the whole CFD
>> mesh to a text file. But you can get Microflo to dump the results out to
>> text file at a certain number of monitoring points.
>>
>> Before you start a Microflo simulation, when you are in the residual
>> monitoring page, there is a section of the window that allows you to add
>> monitoring points.
>>
>> When you do this the CFD results at these montoring points are dumped to
>> text files in the veprojectdir\CFD\cell subdirectory. One file is produced
>> for each montoring point. The first 4 variables dumped are x-velocity,
>> y-velocity, z-velocity, and temperature.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Liam.
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>> I've just started using IES-VE MicroFlow for CFD simulation. After I
>> complete the simulation there is only a program to visualize the result. I
>> wonder how can I export the result as an ASCII or Text file?
>> __________________________________________________
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