{"id":164649,"date":"2023-03-17T08:58:16","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T08:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/comparing-experimental-data-against-simulation-data-by-plotting-vectors\/"},"modified":"2023-07-31T12:25:59","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T12:25:59","slug":"comparing-experimental-data-against-simulation-data-by-plotting-vectors","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/comparing-experimental-data-against-simulation-data-by-plotting-vectors\/","title":{"rendered":"Comparing experimental data against simulation data by plotting vectors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I would like to compare experimental data against simulation data by loading in the experimental data into CFX-Post and plotting vectors. Is this possible? Do you have any hints on how it could be done?      The best way is to first do an export from CFX-Post for a plane, study the file arrangement and repeat the arrangement for the imported variables. Note, that &#8216;Export Geometry Information&#8217;, &#8216;Line and Face Connectivity\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and &#8216;Node Numbers&#8217; need to be switched on.  When you open the exported .CSV file in a text editor, you will see that after the section with values there is a section with the connectivity matrix, and to get this right can be a problem. When importing the file, a user surface will be created. To be able to present vectors, you need to define a user variable (Type:Vector) and for the components of this vector specify the imported variables (presumably the variable components in x-,y- and z-direction).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-164649","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-4424","topic-tag-cfd-post","topic-tag-fluid-dynamics","topic-tag-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_wp_page_template":["default"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["3-15-2023  20:20:36"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27796"],"_bbp_author_ip":["23.56.168.180"],"_btv_view_count":["611"],"siebel_km_number":["642258"],"product_version":["16"],"km_published_date":["2007-07-07T00:00:00.000Z"],"family":["Fluid Dynamics"],"application_name":["CFD-Post"]},"test":"articlesansys-com"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/164649","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\/164649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}