Wall Calculator

The Wall Calculator in the Results task calculates flow-induced forces on solid and wall surfaces. Such forces are useful in many situations, and examples include:

In addition, the Wall dialog calculates:

The Wall Results tab is broken into two tabs:

Using the Wall Calculator

Click Results (tab) > Results Tasks (panel) > Wall Calculator to open the Wall Calculator.

When this dialog is open, surfaces on the model highlight as the mouse hovers near them.

Step 1

Select surfaces on which to assess wall results. Valid surfaces are any wall surface as well as openings (inlets and outlets).

When the Selection Mode is Volume, volumes highlight when hovered over, and can be selected. The surfaces belonging to a selected volume are actually selected, not the volume itself. The IDs of selected surfaces are shown in the list region.

Select groups of surfaces using the Group Operation button. The group must exist prior to running the last set of iterations. If not, simply run 0 iterations to force the model to re-process.

Step 2

Select the quantities and desired units to output.

Step 3

Click Calculate from either the Wall Results dialog or from the Wall context panel.

Output Tab

Click the Output tab to view calculated wall results. The requested values from the Selection and Result tab are displayed on this dialog for every selected surface.

A Summary section lists the total quantities for all of the selected surfaces.

Save this data to an Excel csv file by clicking Write to file. The output file is in Excel csv format.

Click View file to open a saved wall results file. The contents of the file are displayed in the Output region.

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