Monitoring Functionality

The differences between Explore and Refine for monitoring functionality are as follows.

Depending on your geometry selection and calculation type, you may see the following differences.

	Explore	Refine
Point monitors	All physics	Fluid flow, Structural
Line monitors	All physics	Fluid flow
Surface bodies	All physics
Plane monitors	All physics	Fluid flow
Detailed monitor charts	Time-dependent fluid flow, solid thermal, topology optimization	Steady-state fluid flow

Physics Variables

Functionality	Explore	Refine
Pressure, static	Fluid ⃰	Fluid⁑
Pressure, total	Fluid ⃰	Fluid⁑
Velocity	Fluid ⃰	Fluid⁑
Vortices Lambda 2	Fluid ⃰	Fluid⁑
Force	Fluid ⃰	Fluid⁑
Flow Uniformity	Fluid ⃰	Fluid⁑
Temperature	Fluid thermal ⃰, Solid thermal ⃰	Fluid thermal⁑, Solid thermal
Heat flux	Solid thermal ⃰	Fluid thermal⁑, Solid thermal
Heat flow	Solid thermal ⃰	Fluid thermal⁑, Solid thermal
Pressure drop⁂	Fluid	Fluid
Volume	Fluid thermal ⃰, Solid thermal ⃰, Structural thermal	Fluid thermal ⃰, Solid thermal ⃰, Structural thermal
Volume flow	Fluid	Fluid
Mass	Fluid thermal ⃰, Solid thermal ⃰, Structural thermal	Fluid thermal ⃰, Solid thermal ⃰, Structural thermal
Mass flow	Fluid	Fluid
Factor of safety⁂	Structural	Structural
Displacement	Structural	Structural
Stress	Structural	Structural
Von Mises stress	Structural	Structural
Principal stress	Structural	Structural
Strain (elastic)	Structural	Structural
Principal strain (elastic)	Structural	Structural
Reaction force	Structural	Structural
Reaction resultant	Structural	Structural
Contact reaction		Structural
Contact stress (pressure)	Structural	Structural
Contact stress (frictional)		Structural
Joint force		Structural
Joint moment		Structural
Frequency	Modal, Free modal	Modal, Free modal, Pre-stress modal
All structural result variables are also available in structural thermal, and all fluid result variables in fluid-thermal.
⃰ For time-dependent solutions, these also report per time point detailed monitors.
⁑ For steady-state solutions, these also report per iteration detailed monitors.
⁂ Created by default, these cannot be user defined.