The Fluent Post-Analysis workspace allows you to post-process, visualize, and animate complex datasets. Although it is designed primarily for use with the results of computational analyses, it can also be used for other types of data.
The workspace supports the following features:
Fluent Restart formats (.cas.h5/.dat.h5, .cas/.dat, .cas.gz/.dat.gz).
Fluent Post formats (.cas.post/.dat.post, .cas/.cdat).
Fluent Project File format (.flprj).
EnSight Gold format (.encas).
Multiple transient files can be loaded with wild-card.
Multiple datasets can be loaded.
Rename and delete Graphics objects.
Saving of image in different formats.
Plotting of XY data.
There are some limitations associated with the Post-Analysis workspace, many of which are planned for resolution at a future release:
When using a limited Ansys Academic License, you cannot load a mesh containing more than 512,000 elements. (455382)
Fluent Post-Analysis is unable to read .flprj for .cas.h5/.dat.h5 files. (487308)
List of variables is limited for Fluent Restart formats.
Currently, Fluent Post-Analysis does not support the .cdat file format. (415764)
Variable names are currently not consistent between restart & post formats.
For Fluent restart files, EnSight does not connect the boundary nodes to the cell nodes.
Contours on any cut plane on the volumetric part will not consider boundary values.
Contours can be plotted on a boundary only if values are available on the boundary. There is no mechanism to interpolate values from adjacent cells.
For Fluent restart files, facet value-based reports will not be correct.
Periodic Instances
If a part is referred to by more than one periodic instance, the last one will take preference.
Periodic instancing and symmetries are not compatible.