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TransAT Tutorial Manual 3.1. Forced Convection in a Channel with Heated Walls

3.1.8 Visualization of the results

The results of the simulation can be seen with the help of the Open-Source Visualisation Tool,
ParaView.

• To launch ParaView, click Start and select

All Programs > ParaView-4.0.1 > ParaView.
• Click File − > Open.

• Navigate to your project folder.

• Go to the RESULT folder and choose xy-forcedconvection...vtm. Click OK .

• Click in the Properties Panel, on the bottom left.

• Choose variable T from the drop-down list. (See Figure 6.5). This shows the temperature
distribution along the domain.
• Clicking the rainbow button on the left-hand side shows the Legend. Clicking the double-
arrow button on its right rescales the color range to the data range.

• See Figure 3.2 for the steady state result of the temperature profile.

• To visualise the converged results, go to the last frame by hitting the in the toolbar.

To get a rough idea about visualisation of TransAT results with ParaView, please refer to the
TransAT Paraview Tutorial .

More detailed information can also be found in the Paraview Tutorial on the ParaView website.

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