Fluent restart calculation

- February 5, 2019 at 6:16 am
  
  Glibrary
  Subscriber
  
  Hi,
  
  I am trying to restart my fluent transient calculation.
  
  As far as I know how to restart simulation is [file]-[solution files]-[recover missing solution]-[select the latest CAS file] and then select calculate again.
  
  I have saved CAS and CDAT files and tried to load the latest CAS file.
  
  But fluent shows an error that it cannot find the dat file when I tried to load the CAS file.
  
  Is it not able to restart simulation using CDAT?
  
  I have searched google and this community but couldn't find an answer.
  
  I would appreciate if someone teach me how to restart simulation.
  
  Thank you.
- February 5, 2019 at 6:24 am
  
  Keyur Kanade
  Ansys Employee
  
  you should have cas and dat file.
- February 5, 2019 at 2:44 pm
  
  Glibrary
  Subscriber
  
  Hi kkanade
  
  Thank you for your reply!
  
  I will try it again!
- February 5, 2019 at 5:41 pm
  
  Rob
  Forum Moderator
  
  cdat is a cut down data file for post processing in CFD Post: you can't read it back into Fluent. Hopefully you've also saved some dat files too and that will allow you to restart.
- February 6, 2019 at 3:04 pm
  
  Glibrary
  Subscriber
  
  Hi rwoolhou,
  
  Thank you for kind explanation.
  
  I figured out the way!