CFD - Nabla Logo
Simulation Software and Consultancy
CFD - home CFD - solutions CFD - software CFD - support CFD - other CFD - contact
CFD - Nabla Logo Explained
  Advanced Search
  
  Send us a comment/query
 
  Back to Software
 
  Solvers
  Creating solvers
  Standard solvers
  Pre-processing
  The FoamX case manager
  Other pre-processing utilities
  Post-processing
  The dxFoam post-processor
  Third-party post-processing
  Other post-processing utilities
  Mesh processing
  Mesh generation
  Mesh converters
  Mesh manipulation
  Model libraries
  Turbulence
  Large-eddy simulation (LES)
  Transport models
  Thermophysical models
  Lagrangian particle tracking
  Chemical kinetics New
  Other features
  Linear system solvers
  ODE system solvers New
  Parallel computing
  Mesh motion
  Numerical method
 
  ©2000-2007 Nabla Ltd.
Other post-processing utilities

OpenFOAM is distributed with a set of utilities that perform specific post-processing tasks, as listed below.

Post-processing the velocity field


Co Configurable graph drawing program
divU Calculates and writes the divergence of velocity field U at each time in a database
enstrophy Calculates and writes the enstrophy of velocity field U at each time in a database
Lambda2 Calculates and writes the second largest eigenvalue of the sum of the square of the symmetrical and anti-symmetrical parts of the velocity gradient tensor, at each time in a database
Mach Calculates and writes the local Mach number from the velocity field U at each time in a database
magGradU Calculates and writes the scalar magnitude of velocity field U at each time in a database
magU Calculates and writes the scalar magnitude of the gradient of the velocity field U at each time in a database
Pe Calculates and writes the Pe number as a surfaceScalarField obtained from field phi at each time in a database
Q Calculates and writes the second invariant of the velocity gradient tensor for each time in a database
streamFunction Calculates and writes the stream function of velocity field U at each time in a database
Ucomponents Writes the three scalar fields, Ux, Uy and Uz, for each component of the velocity field U at each time in a database
uprime Calculates and writes the scalar field of uprime ( V~ ---
  2k
  3  \special {t4ht=) at each time in a database
vorticity Calculates and writes the vorticity of velocity field U at each time in a database
Post-processing the stress field


R Calculates and writes the Reynolds stress R for the current time step
Rcomponents Calculates and writes the scalar fields of the six components of the Reynolds stress R for each time in a database
stressComponents Calculates and writes the scalar fields of the six components of the stress tensor sigma for each time in a database
Post-processing at a wall


checkYPlus Calculates and reports yPlus for all wall patches, for each time in a database
wallGradU Calculates and writes the gradient of U at the wall, wallGradU, for the current time step
wallShearStress Calculates and writes the wall shear stress for the current time step
yPlusLES Calculates the yPlus of the near-wall cells for an LES
Other post-processing


engineCompRatio Calculate the geometric compression ratio. Note that if you have valves and/or extra volumes it will not work, since it calculates the volume at BDC and TCD
liftDrag Calculates the lift and drag for each time in a database.
postChannel Post-processes data from channel flow calculations
ptot For each time in a database: calculate the total pressure
sample Sample field data with a choice of interpolation schemes, sampling options and write formats
sampleSurface Surface sampling. Runs in parallel (but does not merge points)
wdot Calculates and writes wdot for each time in a database