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19. TUTORIALS
19.2. STEADY STATE PORT FLOW
Co-Simulation Post-processing Frequency Controls the frequency at which post-processing data is
written when WAVE requests postprocessing output during a coupled simulation.
Additional output Additional output file can be written for monitoring data, boundary data, report
regions and domain data. These can be either in ASCII column format or Ricardo SDF binary
format. The frequency of the two types of file can be chosen independently by entering the
required intervals in to the ’Report Frequency’ boxes. Again an interval of zero will mean that
the data is not written. The ASCII files include header rows detailing the data in each of the
columns. Separate files are written for the different data types.
– Domain
– Monitoring
– IO and Wall (If reporting is selected for the relevant boundary)
– Arbitrary Surface
Additionally the residual data can be chosen to be saved to an ASCII file and the SDF report
file.
The ASCII data files are used by the ’Live Update’ utility in R-Desk. The SDF binary format is
written to a single report file named projectname.rep_runnumber. It contains the data for all the
additional output. It can be viewed and plotted in R-Desk using the ’SDF File Manager’ and
’XY Plot Manager’
Summary output Summary data can also be written to the screen and output file at the chosen frequency and detail level.
Save Initial Conditions The ’Save Initial Conditions Restart File’ and ’Save Initial Conditions Post
File’ toggles allow the user to select whether the initial data used in the calculations is saved to
a file. The initial conditions are saved after any flow potential calculations are performed but
before the first timestep/iteration.
Linear Equations Solver Residuals Information This toggles whether residual information is written for each of the equations at every timestep. This will write to the screen and output files in
the format shown below.
Fluid Domain In this case the calculation will consist of one single-phase fluid domain
Domain Name A name can be assigned to the fluid domain to allow for easier reference later in the
calculation.
Material Name A name can be assigned to each material in the fluid domain, again to allow for
easier reference later in the calculation. Each fluid domain contains only one material
Material ID This refers to the material ID number referenced in the GRD file. Each separate material
will have a unique ID number
Multiphase Modelling This allows the user to specify whether the fluid contains a single phase or a
homogeneous mixture of a number of different phases.
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