{"id":157162,"date":"2022-06-06T08:32:55","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T08:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/how-to-monitor-the-coordinates-of-a-node-in-a-mesh-motion-simulation-2\/"},"modified":"2022-06-06T08:32:55","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T08:32:55","slug":"how-to-monitor-the-coordinates-of-a-node-in-a-mesh-motion-simulation-2","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/how-to-monitor-the-coordinates-of-a-node-in-a-mesh-motion-simulation-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How to monitor the coordinates of a node in a mesh motion simulation."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1. Create a monitor point at the desired location. Add all Total Mesh Displacement variables to the Output Variables List. Set Interpolation Type = Nearest Vertex and Position Update Frequency = Initial Mesh Only (This will make the monitor stick to a node).   <br \/>  2. Create an expression (Expression 1 in this example), that is equal to: probe(Initial Y)@Monitor Point 1+probe(Total Mesh Displacement Y)@Monitor Point 1. This will return the Y position of Monitor Point 1. This method is required since it\u2019s not possible to directly monitor position of a monitor point with probe(Y)@Monitor Point 1.   <br \/>  3. Create a new monitor point with Option = Expression and set the Expression Value equal to the expression created in step 2.  <br \/>  4. Repeat steps 2, 3 for the X, Z coordinates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-157162","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-ansys-fluent","topic-tag-mesh-motion-simulation","topic-tag-monitor-coordinates"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_wp_page_template":["default"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["06-06-2022 20:20"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27796"],"_btv_view_count":["2915"],"_bbp_likes_count":["0"]},"test":"articlesansys-com"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/157162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/157162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}