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[vkt1990]

I want to find the location of the source of the plume by using a mobile robot. I also want to know the time the robot will take to find the location. please suggest me how I can import CFD model of ANSYS into matlab?

[Rob]

As Peter mentioned in /forum/forums/topic/how-to-find-the-location-of-the-source-of-the-plume-with-the-help-of-a-robot-using-matlab/  this isn't the place to get help with Matlab.  

In Fluent we can export data in a range of formats: what data do you want in Matlab? 

[vkt1990]

I want to export fluent ASCII file into Matlab, just to trace the plume through Matlab programme.  

[peteroznewman]

 Here are the steps I used to export the ASCII data from the Fluent model that computed the CO2 concentration.

In Fluent, File, Export, Solution Data... then I picked ASCII, picked the domain and selected Mass fraction of co2.

Note there is a choice of location between Node and Cell Center. I picked Cell Center.

After I clicked Write... a file was created on the disk.

You can import that into matlab using the Import Data button. I changed the range to ignore the cellnumber and set it to column vectors.

Plotting that data is difficult in matlab, but easy for me in JMP. So I opened the data in JMP and was able to make a contour plot.

Attached is the cell center exported data from the model attached to this post.

Regards,

Peter 

[vkt1990]

Thank you soooooo much....?

[vkt1990]

Thank you soooooo much....?