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TransAT Tutorial Manual 9.1. Water suction

Running TransAT

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

• Click to start the simulation.

9.1.8 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-watersuction...vtm. Click OK
• Click in the Properties Panel, on the bottom left.

• Choose variable PhaseAlpha1 from the drop-down list. See Figure 9.7 and Figure 9.8
which show the initial and final distributions of water volume fraction over the domain.

• Clicking the rainbow button on the left shows the Legend. Clicking the double-arrow button
on its right rescales the color range to the data range.
• To visualise the results at the end of the simulation, go to the last frame by hitting 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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