46.4. Using the Parametric Ribbon

The Parametric tab of the ribbon lets you initialize your parametric study in Fluent, and provides key functionality when running parametric flow simulations.

  • Study: allows you to Initialize or to Duplicate the parametric study (if the need arises) when performing your parametric analysis.

  • Design Point: provides easy access to creating a new design point for your parametric simulation, either manually or automatically. The new design point is added to the Design Point Table where you can easily provide new settings for a parametric study. See Adding Design Points for more information.

    Additionally, you can use comma-separated value (CSV) data for your parametric study. For instance, use the Export... option to export the contents of your design point table to an external .csv file. Likewise, use the Import... option to import an existing CSV file directly into the parametric table. See Importing and Exporting Design Point Tables for more information.

  • Simulation Report: provides options for the simulation reports that you can generate for the base case, the current case, and for the entire parametric simulation study that includes all design points. See Creating Simulation Reports for Design Points and Parametric Studies for details.

  • Update Options: choose whether to run your design point simulations sequentially (in the same Fluent session) or concurrently (in a new Fluent session). You also have easy access to update the current design point, or update all design points. See Updating Design Points for more information.

    Use the Save Journals option to customize how any journals are created for any design point that needs to be updated. You can then submit these journals to a job scheduler or run the journals in different Fluent session(s). See Saving Journals When Updating Design Points for more information.


    Note:  Performing concurrent updates and saving journal files are not available when using the CFD-Pro license level.


  • Update Status: provides a summary of the status of your simulations, as well as the ability to refresh the overall status of the design points getting updated concurrently. See Monitoring and Viewing Design Point Update Status for more information.

  • optiSLang Capabilities: provides access to exporting your optiSLang data. See Exporting Parametric Designs to optiSLang for more information.

  • Comparison Plot: provides easy access to creating a new plots where results between design points can be compared. See Comparing Parametric Plots for more information.