pyfluent-visualization Documentation 0.4.2#
Introduction#
Ansys Fluent is a state-of-the-art computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software package for modeling fluid flow, heat transfer, and chemical reactions in complex geometries.
Ansys Fluent provides complete mesh flexibility, including the ability to solve your flow problems using unstructured meshes that can be generated about complex geometries with relative ease. Supported mesh types include 2D triangular/quadrilateral, 3D tetrahedral/hexahedral/pyramid/wedge/polyhedral, and mixed (hybrid) meshes. Ansys Fluent also enables you to refine or coarsen your mesh based on the flow solution.
You can read your mesh into Ansys Fluent, or, for 3D geometries, create your mesh using the meshing mode of Fluent. All other operations are performed within the solution mode of Fluent, including setting boundary conditions, defining fluid properties, executing the solution, refining the mesh, running a parametric study, and postprocessing and viewing the results.
What is PyFluent?#
PyFluent is part of the PyAnsys ecosystem that lets you use Ansys Fluent within or alongside any other Python environment, whether it is in conjunction with other Ansys Python libraries and packages or with other external Python products.
PyFluent implements a client-server architecture. PyFluent launches or connects with a running Fluent process as a server using Google remote procedure calls, or gRPC interfaces, but all you need to interact with is the Python interface.
You can use PyFluent to programmatically create, interact with and control an Ansys Fluent session to create your own customized workspace. In addition, you can use PyFluent to enhance your productivity with highly configurable, customized scripts.
Features#
The package, ansys-fluent-visualization, provides features such as:
Script post processing using Fluent’s in-built post processing capabilities. See the Visualization module for more information.
Plotting of Fluent geometry and meshes using PyVista from within a Python script or an interactive Jupyter notebook.
Access to Fluent surface based field data as Python objects via NumPy arrays
and more…
Documentation and Issues#
In addition to installation, usage, and contribution information, the PyFluent documentation provides API documentation, examples, and code guidelines.
On the PyFluent Issues page, you can create issues to submit questions, report bugs, and request new features. To reach the project support team, email pyansys.support@ansys.com.
License#
PyFluent is licensed under the MIT license.
This module makes no commercial claim over Ansys whatsoever. PyFluent extends the functionality of Ansys Fluent by adding an additional Python interface to Ansys Fluent without changing the core behavior or license of the original software. The use of the interactive control of PyFluent requires a legally licensed local copy of Ansys Fluent. For more information about Ansys Fluent, visit Ansys Fluent.