CFD AcuSolve Reader
AcuSolve results for steady state, transient and moving/deforming mesh analyses can be imported and post-processed using the AcuSolve Reader (*.log) in HyperView.
All element types available in AcuSolve are supported by the AcuSolve direct results reader (*.log).
Activate the Load Model checkbox to enable the Load Model panel and then click on the file
browser button 
to open the Load Model File
dialog, where you can select the *.log file of the CFD analysis.
Figure 1.
The AcuSolve reader can be explicitly selected by clicking on the Files of type: pull-down menu and selecting AcuSolve Reader (*.Log). Once the AcuSolve reader has been selected, only the AcuSolve *.log files will be displayed in the directory.
Figure 2.
The selected *.log file contains a link to the AcuSolve result file directory, in general ACUSIM.DIR, from which the relevant result data will be extracted.
After loading the result files, the result types for nodal_output and for extended_nodal_output will be displayed in the selection list for contour plotting. The derived_quantity_output is included in the extended nodal output.
Figure 3.
Supported Results
| Data Name | Result Type | Data Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nodal output | velocity | Vector | Velocity Vector |
| pressure | Scalar | Pressure | |
| temperature | Scalar | Temperature | |
| species | Scalar | Species | |
| eddy_viscosity | Scalar | Turbulence eddy viscosity | |
| surface_y_plus | Scalar | y+ on turbulence walls | |
| surface_film_coefficient (film) | Scalar | Convective heat transfer coefficient on turbulence walls | |
| kinetic_energy | Scalar | Turbulence kinetic energy | |
| eddy_frequency | Scalar | Turbulence eddy frequency | |
| mesh_displacement | Vector | Mesh displacement vector | |
| mesh_velocity | Vector | Mesh velocity vector | |
| Extended nodal output | grad_velocity | Tensor | Gradient of velocity vector |
| grad_pressure | Vector | Gradient of pressure | |
| grad_temperature | Vector | Gradient of temperature | |
| grad_species | Vector | Gradient of species | |
| grad_eddy_viscosity | Vector | Gradient of turbulence eddy viscosity | |
| grad_kinetic_energy | Vector | Gradient of turbulence kinetic energy | |
| grad_eddy_frequency | Vector | Gradient of turbulence eddy frequency | |
| grad_mesh_displacement | Vector | Gradient of mesh displacement | |
| grad_mesh_velocity | Vector | Gradient of mesh velocity vector | |
| strain_rate_invariant_2 | Vector | Second invariant of the strain rate tensor | |
| cfl_number | Scalar | Element-integrated CFL number | |
| volume | Scalar | Nodal volume | |
| velocity_magnitude | Scalar | Magnitude | |
| vorticity | Vector | Vorticity | |
| density | Scalar | Density | |
| viscosity | Scalar | viscosity | |
| gravity | Vector | Gravity | |
| specific heat | Scalar | Specific heat | |
| conductivity | Tensor | Conductivity | |
| heat_source | Scalar | Heat Source | |
| diffusivity | Scalar | Species diffusivity | |
| species_source | Scalar | Species source | |
| turbulence_y | Scalar | Turbulence distance to wall | |
| turbulence_y_plus | Scalar | Turbulence y+ | |
| Running average output | velocity | Vector | Running average of velocity |
| pressure | Scalar | Running average of pressure | |
| viscoelastic_stress | Tensor | Running average of viscoelastic stress | |
| Time average output | velocity | Vector | Time average of velocity |
| pressure | Scalar | Time average of pressure | |
| Derived quantity output | density | Scalar | Density |
| conductivity | Tensor | Conductivity | |
| diffusivity | Scalar | Diffusivity | |
| Nodal residual output | velocity | Vector | Velocity residual |
| pressure | Scalar | Pressure residual | |
| eddy_viscosity | Scalar | Eddy viscosity residual |