{"id":437888,"date":"2025-07-27T22:31:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T22:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/unable-to-save-animation-hsf-or-avi-automatically-in-fluent-during-hpc-run\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T22:32:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T22:32:11","slug":"unable-to-save-animation-hsf-or-avi-automatically-in-fluent-during-hpc-run","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/unable-to-save-animation-hsf-or-avi-automatically-in-fluent-during-hpc-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Unable to Save Animation (HSF or AVI) Automatically in Fluent During HPC RUN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;p&gt;&lt;p data-start=&#8221;210&#8243; data-end=&#8221;481&#8243;&gt;I&#8217;m currently running a transient simulation on an HPC using Fluent in batch mode with a &lt;code data-start=&#8221;323&#8243; data-end=&#8221;329&#8243;&gt;.jou file. The simulation runs fine and completes the time steps, but I&#8217;m encountering persistent issues with saving the animation files during the process.&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p data-start=&#8221;483&#8243; data-end=&#8221;503&#8243;&gt;Here&rsquo;s my situation:&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;ul data-start=&#8221;505&#8243; data-end=&#8221;699&#8243;&gt;&lt;li data-start=&#8221;505&#8243; data-end=&#8221;624&#8243;&gt;&lt;p data-start=&#8221;507&#8243; data-end=&#8221;624&#8243;&gt;I have set up the animation in my case file beforehand (name: &lt;code data-start=&#8221;564&#8243; data-end=&#8221;574&#8243;&gt;velocity, storage: HSF File, record every 2 time-steps).&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;li data-start=&#8221;625&#8243; data-end=&#8221;699&#8243;&gt;&lt;p data-start=&#8221;627&#8243; data-end=&#8221;699&#8243;&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p data-start=&#8221;963&#8243; data-end=&#8221;1028&#8243;&gt;I only set the HSF file saving method in my case file, but I did not set any related saving steps in the journal file. However, HPC did not save the file after the run was completed.&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-437888","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-animation","topic-tag-ansys-cfd-1","topic-tag-ansys-fluent","topic-tag-ansys-hpc-2","topic-tag-batch-hpc","topic-tag-error-in-fluent"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_forum_id":["27786"],"_bbp_topic_id":["437888"],"_bbp_subscription":["510633","199","585920"],"_bbp_author_ip":["2a0e:1d47:909d:8d00:e84d:117a:e3be:8622"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["437971"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["437971"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2025-07-28 15:16:02"],"_bbp_reply_count":["3"],"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":["1"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_btv_view_count":["6613"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_edit_last":["510633"],"_bbp_revision_log":["a:1:{i:437889;a:2:{s:6:\"author\";i:510633;s:6:\"reason\";s:0:\"\";}}"],"_bbp_engagement":["199","510633"]},"test":"tianyuan-sundurham-ac-uk"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/437888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/437888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":437889,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/437888\/revisions\/437889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}