User locations enable you to specify an arbitrary set of points and connectivities that are not directly associated with the volume mesh. User locations have uses such as:
Providing a location on which the solver can write solution data.
You can observe the solution on some user locations while the solver is in progress.
Postprocessing on user locations in CFD-Post provides a more efficient way to view data in regions of known interest and can reduce the size of transient results files.
For details, see Monitor Surfaces.
Specifying injection region locations.
For details, see Injection Positions and User Functions for Injection Regions.
User locations that are generated in CFX-Pre (that is, user lines that use the Two Points option
and user points that are specified directly by their coordinates) are stored internally in the CFX-Solver input file.
By default, the user location data is updated (recalculated) if necessary at the start of the CFX-Solver run.
Controls are available to override this behavior: see Solver Tab.
This chapter describes: