Symmetry in Floworks

[phonix]

In Floworks, you can save computation time by marking the domain as symmetric about a plane. Ok, fine.

How do you display the results to recreate both sides of the plane? It seems like there is no setting to mirror the results for pretty charts.

 

[cbrn]

Are you looking for sensable results or for nice-looking charts?

 

[phonix]

Both of course. One needs to communicate the results to the people who pay for things. I would hope the answer is that it cannot mirror the results apon completion -- as that would be rather large oversight for something so trivial to implement.

 

[cbrn]

Sorry, I can't figure out why people would be disappointed in looking at a symmetric sector rather than to the whole.
Moreover, if you plot something inside a closed volume, you will see NOTHING, so you'd have to section it anyway.

 

[phonix]

If you do a flow trajectory inside a tube, you can hide the tube and may want to see the trajectory in the entire region.

Also, you may predict flow around a cone using just 1/4 of the area for symmetry, and then want to see the flow on 1/2 or the entire cone.

I am not sure first one to feel it is important, since Fluent does it. Also it is trivial to implement.

So it looks like I will need to double CPU cycles and compute it for both sides if I ever want to show a chart to a non-engineer.