Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) solvers are used in many domains, particularly aerospace and automotive engineering. Bringing data from your CFD package into ParaView gives you access to a large set of post-processing operations. You can directly display the computational mesh with or without computed quantities in surface or volume rendered forms. Oriented glyph and streamlines will show the overall direction of flow within the data. In addition to these qualitative abilities, ParaView also lets you dissect data with interactive selections and can display the values in text or chart forms. This enables you to identify and explore interesting portions of your data.
Visualize and Analyze CFD
Using ParaView provides access to a host of post-processing operations for CFD data. To get the most out of your CFD package, download ParaView for free. For help using ParaView or to customize the platform, visit customization page.
See ParaView in Action
Large Eddy Simulation of the DU96-W-180 Airfoil
Video courtesy of Incite, General Electric and Argonne
Foaming Waterfall
A finite volume solver for incompressible multiphase flows with surface tension.
Collaborator: Petr Karnakov, Sergey Litvinov, Jean M. Favre, and Petros Koumoutsakos from CSElab
Interaction of a Synthetic Jet Actuator on Separated Flow Over a Vertical Tail
University of Colorado Boulder:
Kenneth E. Jansen,
Michel Rasquin,
John A. Farnsworth
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute:
Nicholas Rathay,
Marianne Monastero,
Michael Amitay
Paraview Catalyst:
Kitware Inc.: Utkarsh Ayachit, Andrew Bauer, Berk Geveci, Patrick O’Leary
paraview.org
SENSEI:
– Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: E. Wes Bethel (PI), Burlen Loring, Dmitriy Morozov, Alex Sim, Gunther H. Weber, Kesheng (John) Wu
– Argonne National Laboratory: Venkatram Vishwanath, Nicola Ferrier
– Georgia Tech: Karsten Schwan
– Intelligent Light: Earl P. N. Duque, Brad Whitlock
– Kitware Inc.: Patrick O’Leary, Utkarsh Ayachit, Andrew Bauer
– Oak Ridge National Laboratory: Matthew Wolf
– sensei-insitu.org
Car in wind tunnel
Simulation made using Lattice Boltzmann method, visualization made in ParaView.
Fluid flow in a mixing application showing two different mixing speeds. Color indicates velocity magnitude and surface LIC shows flow direction. Data generated by lattice-Boltzmann methods in M-Star CFD and visualized in M-Star Post, a ParaView-based application. Images courtesy M-Star CFD.
Theater Slice
OpenFOAM simulation results run on case files set up by BIM HVACTool.
Collaborator: Thomas Tian from Tian Green Building Simulation
Spitfire Data provided by IT4Innovation, rendered in ParaView using Physically Based Rendering (PBR) and environment lighting, by Kitware Europe.
