Chapter 12: report/

report/boundary-cell-quality

Reports the number and quality limits of boundary cells containing the specified number of boundary faces. If you specify zero for number of boundary faces, you will be prompted for number of boundary nodes.

report/cell-distribution

Reports the distribution of cell quality or size based on the bounding limits and number of partitions specified.

report/cell-quality-limits

Reports the cell quality limits.

report/cell-size-limits

Reports the cell size limits.

report/cell-zone-at-location

Returns the cell zone at or closest to the specified location.

report/cell-zone-volume

Reports the volume of the specified cell zone.

report/edge-size-limits

Reports the edge size limits.

report/enhanced-orthogonal-quality?

Employs an enhanced definition of the orthogonal quality measure that combines a variety of quality measures, including: the orthogonality of a face relative to a vector between the face and cell centroids; a metric that detects poor cell shape at a local edge (such as twisting and/or concavity); and the variation of normals between the faces that can be constructed from the cell face. This definition is optimal for evaluating thin prism cells.

The range is from -1 to 1. Under ideal conditions, the orthogonal quality is close to 1, whereas valid cells require the quality to be more than 0. The following table lists the range of orthogonal quality values and the corresponding cell quality.

Table 12.1: Orthogonal Quality Ranges and Cell Quality

Orthogonal Quality

Cell Quality

1

orthogonal

0.9–<1

excellent

0.75–0.9

good

0.5–0.75

fair

0.25–0.5

poor

>0–0.25

bad (sliver)

0

degenerate


report/face-distribution

Reports the distribution of face quality or size based on the bounding limits and number of partitions specified.

report/face-node-degree-distribution

Reports the distribution of boundary faces based on face node degree. The node degree is the number of faces connected to the node. Specify the list of boundary face zones and the minimum and maximum face node degree to be reported. You can also consider only internal nodes, if required.

report/face-quality-limits

Reports the face quality limits.

report/face-size-limits

Reports the face size limits.

report/face-zone-area

Reports the area of the specified face zone.

report/face-zone-at-location

Reports the face zone at the given location.

report/list-cell-quality

Reports a list of cells with the specified quality measure within a specified range. The valid prefixes are bn (boundary node), n (node), bf (boundary face), f (face), and c (cell).

report/memory-usage

Reports the amount of memory used for all nodes, faces, and cells, and the total memory allocated.

report/mesh-size

Reports the number of nodes, faces, and cells in the mesh.

report/mesh-statistics

Writes mesh statistics (such as zone information, number of cells, faces, and nodes, range of quality and size) to an external file.

report/neighborhood-quality

Reports the maximum skewness, aspect ratio, or size change of all cells using a specified node.

report/number-meshed

Reports the number of elements that have been meshed.

report/print-info

Prints information about individual components of the mesh. This command also appears in the boundary menu. When you use this command, you will be prompted for an “entity” (that is, a node, face, or cell). An entity name consists of a prefix and an index. For a description of the displayed information see Reporting Mesh Information in the Fluent User's Guide

report/quality-method

Specifies the method to be used for reporting face and cell quality.

report/unrefined-cells

Reports the number of cells that have not been refined.

report/update-bounding-box

Updates the bounding box.

report/verbosity-level

Specifies how much information should be displayed during mesh initialization, refinement and other operations. Changing the value to 2 from the default value of 1 will produce more messages, while changing it to 0 will disable all messages.