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TransAT Tutorial Manual 4.4. Film Boiling

4.4.7 Execute Tab

• Click Execute to run the simulation.

Running TransAT

• Click to initialise the flow field from the initialconditions.cxx file.

• Click to start the simulation

4.4.8 Visualisation 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-3.14.1 > ParaView.

See Figure 4.21.
• Click File − > Open.

• Navigate to the RESULT folder and choose xy-filmboiling ls...vtm.

• Click .

• Create a Contour object by clicking in the toolbar ( alternatively select Filters − >
Alphabetical − > Contour in the menu bar).
• Choose variable PHI (PHI is the Level-Set function).

• Set value of the contour to be 0.

• Click .

• Make the father object visible (xy-filmboiling ls.0000*) by clicking the icon.

• Choose the ”DEN” variable from the drop-down list.

• Play the animation by clicking 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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