Chapter 6 Post-processing
This chapter describes options for post-processing with OpenFOAM. OpenFOAM is supplied with a post-processing utility paraFoam that uses ParaView, an open source visualisation application described in section 6.1.
Other methods of post-processing using third party products are offered, including EnSight, Fieldview and the post-processing supplied with Fluent.
6.1 paraFoam
6.1.1 Overview of paraFoam
6.1.2 The Properties panel
6.1.3 The Display panel
6.1.4 The button toolbars
6.1.5 Manipulating the view
6.1.6 Contour plots
6.1.7 Vector plots
6.1.8 Streamlines
6.1.9 Image output
6.1.10 Animation output
6.2 Post-processing with Fluent
6.3 Post-processing with Fieldview
6.4 Post-processing with EnSight
6.4.1 Converting data to EnSight format
6.4.2 The ensight74FoamExec reader module
6.5 Sampling data
6.6 Monitoring and managing jobs
6.6.1 The foamJob script for running jobs
6.6.2 The foamLog script for monitoring jobs
6.1.1 Overview of paraFoam
6.1.2 The Properties panel
6.1.3 The Display panel
6.1.4 The button toolbars
6.1.5 Manipulating the view
6.1.6 Contour plots
6.1.7 Vector plots
6.1.8 Streamlines
6.1.9 Image output
6.1.10 Animation output
6.2 Post-processing with Fluent
6.3 Post-processing with Fieldview
6.4 Post-processing with EnSight
6.4.1 Converting data to EnSight format
6.4.2 The ensight74FoamExec reader module
6.5 Sampling data
6.6 Monitoring and managing jobs
6.6.1 The foamJob script for running jobs
6.6.2 The foamLog script for monitoring jobs