How can you determine what the name of a zone is with a given ID?
A question heard from many users is how to find out quickly what the name of a zone is, given the ID of that zone. The reasons for having the ID of a zone, but not the name of the zone may be a warning / error message displayed by Ansys Fluent about a given zone (i.e. they contain information about the type and the ID of the zones, e.g. "reversed flow in 76 faces on pressure-outlet 3").
Type the text command:
/def/bc/zone-name ID
then press ENTER twice.
In between, Ansys Fluent will display the name of the zone between [], as in the following example, where the name "fan-porous" of the zone with the ID of 2 is displayed:
/def/bc/zone-name 2 Zone Name [fan-porous]