Verifying Mapping Results

Use the following methods to check your mapping results:

Review the System Coupling Transcript

During the mapping process, System Coupling writes a Transcript which logs relevant steps in the mapping process. The following sections are of particular interest for aerodamping applications:

For more detailed information about the System Coupling Transcript, see Transcript and Log File. (Note that only the sections relevant to aerodamping analyses will be included in the Transcript.)

Mesh Statistics

Use the Mapping Summary section of the Transcript to verify that the source and target meshes are as expected.


+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|                               MESH STATISTICS                               |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Participant: CFD-SRV-2                                                      |
|   Number of face regions                                                  1 |
|     Number of faces                                                  26 824 |
|       Quadrilateral                                                  26 824 |
|     Area (m2)                                                     6.709e-02 |
|   Bounding Box (m)                                                          |
|     Minimum                              [ 1.336e-01 -2.107e-01 -9.922e-02] |
|     Maximum                              [ 3.123e-01  6.076e-02  1.866e-18] |
|                                                                             |
| Participant: MECH-SRV-1                                                     |
|   Number of face regions                                                  1 |
|     Number of faces                                                   5 658 |
|       Triangular6                                                     2 717 |
|       Quadrilateral8                                                  2 941 |
|     Area (m2)                                                     3.172e-02 |
|   Bounding Box (m)                                                          |
|     Minimum                              [ 1.426e-01 -2.046e-01 -1.000e-01] |
|     Maximum                              [ 2.784e-01  1.476e-02  3.539e-15] |
|                                                                             |
| Total                                                                       |
|   Number of cells                                                         0 |
|   Number of faces                                                    32 482 |
|   Number of nodes                                                    42 976 |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Mapping Summary and Transfer Diagnostics

Use the Mapping Summary and Transfer Diagnostics sections of the Transcript to perform a high-level assessment of the mapping quality.

For best results, the target values should be as close to 100% mapped as possible. The source and target values should be similar, although slight differences may occur when the meshes are dissimilar.


+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|                               MAPPING SUMMARY                               |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|                                     |      Source            Target         |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Interface-1                         |                                       |
|   ModeShape_Mode1                   |                                       |
|     Mapped Area [%]                 |       100               >99           |
|     Mapped Elements [%]             |       100               >99           |
|     Mapped Nodes [%]                |       100               >99           |
|   ModeShape_Mode2                   |                                       |
|     Mapped Area [%]                 |       100               >99           |
|     Mapped Elements [%]             |       100               >99           |
|     Mapped Nodes [%]                |       100               >99           |
|   ModeShape_Mode3                   |                                       |
|     Mapped Area [%]                 |       100               >99           |
|     Mapped Elements [%]             |       100               >99           |
|     Mapped Nodes [%]                |       100               >99           |
|   ModeShape_Mode4                   |                                       |
|     Mapped Area [%]                 |       100               >99           |
|     Mapped Elements [%]             |       100               >99           |
|     Mapped Nodes [%]                |       100               >99           |
|   ModeShape_Mode5                   |                                       |
|     Mapped Area [%]                 |       100               >99           |
|     Mapped Elements [%]             |       100               >99           |
|     Mapped Nodes [%]                |       100               >99           |
|   ModeShape_Mode6                   |                                       |
|     Mapped Area [%]                 |       100               >99           |
|     Mapped Elements [%]             |       100               >99           |
|     Mapped Nodes [%]                |       100               >99           |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|                            Transfer Diagnostics                             |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| CFD Server                          |                                       |
|   Interface: Interface-1            |                                       |
|     ModeShape_Mode1                 |                                       |
|       Weighted Average x            |     2.39E-01          2.39E-01        |
|       Weighted Average y            |    -2.87E-02         -2.88E-02        |
|       Weighted Average z            |    -1.39E-01         -1.39E-01        |
|     ModeShape_Mode2                 |                                       |
|       Weighted Average x            |     1.01E-01          1.01E-01        |
|       Weighted Average y            |    -1.55E-02         -1.54E-02        |
|       Weighted Average z            |     7.73E-02          7.78E-02        |
|     ModeShape_Mode3                 |                                       |
|       Weighted Average x            |    -9.27E-03         -9.20E-03        |
|       Weighted Average y            |    -1.22E-02         -1.22E-02        |
|       Weighted Average z            |     1.16E-02          1.16E-02        |
|     ModeShape_Mode4                 |                                       |
|       Weighted Average x            |     2.72E-02          2.73E-02        |
|       Weighted Average y            |    -5.99E-03         -5.95E-03        |
|       Weighted Average z            |     6.89E-02          6.86E-02        |
|     ModeShape_Mode5                 |                                       |
|       Weighted Average x            |    -1.07E-02         -1.08E-02        |
|       Weighted Average y            |     5.57E-03          5.57E-03        |
|       Weighted Average z            |     2.60E-03          2.82E-03        |
|     ModeShape_Mode6                 |                                       |
|       Weighted Average x            |    -2.17E-02         -2.19E-02        |
|       Weighted Average y            |    -4.09E-03         -4.01E-03        |
|       Weighted Average z            |     2.23E-02          2.27E-02        |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Visualize Mapped Results in EnSight

Use Ansys EnSight to visualize the mapped results, confirm that the source and target geometries are aligned and instanced properly, and identify areas of non-overlap. You may open mapping results in EnSight from either System Coupling's GUI or CLI.

Open Results in EnSight from the GUI

Right-click the Solution branch and select Open Results in EnSight from the context menu.

Open Results in EnSight from the CLI

Run the OpenResultsInEnSight() command.


OpenResultsInEnSight()

For more detailed information, see Postprocessing Coupling Results in EnSight.