Tecplot 360 is designed to read and display numeric data, but sometimes you may have categorical data that is best represented using names. An example of this type of data is a groundwater simulation in which scalar values refer to materials such as rock, sand, and water. Another example is … […]
Engineers often need to create a new variable which is based on a numeric relationship of existing variables already loaded. using Tecplot 360 has a powerful capability for calculating a new variable uses a simple method. […]
Tips and Tricks for using Tecplot for CONVERGE include a walk-through of the User Interface, loading data, keyboard shortcuts, zones, slices and iso-surfaces, plot annotations, parcels, scripting, computing mass flow rate and more
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If you wish to generate native Tecplot 360 data files automatically from applications such as complex flow solvers, you have a number of options for outputting data into a format compatible with Tecplot. This blog outlines a few “best practices” for doing so. […]
“Sharing is good, and with digital technology, sharing is easy.” –Richard Stallman. Tecplot divides datasets into zones. These zones may represent different areas of the physical domain, the same physical domain at different time steps, or different results that you may wish to compare. The zones may also have different dimensionality; for example there may be a mixture of 3D volume zones that contain field variables and 2D surface zones […]
Today’s low-cost computational resources have fundamentally changed the way we approach modern technical challenges. In the world of CFD, one of the most dramatic changes has been the increasing use of unsteady (transient) simulations, which allows engineers and scientists to study moving machinery and turbulence flows more effectively. This article is designed to show you how to work more easily with unsteady results using the improved quantitative capabilities in the […]
Here are 10 tips for creating publication quality plots that make an impact. The Tecplot 360 User’s Manual has chapters on all of the topics discussed below and can be found in our documentation. Explore the Plot Gallery with hundreds of plot examples. Learn the best way to share your results with key players. Choosing the right output formats, color and layout help you present your results more effectively in […]
Using the software for data analysis often requires algorithms with many repeated operations, and in some cases many different operations. Tecplot engineers have created a macro language to streamline these operations. Macros are recordable, easy to edit, and don’t require any development experience. Quick Macro Panel Some commonly used complex and repetitive algorithms (within the aerospace community) have been incorporated into a dynamic Tecplot 360 interface called the Quick Macro […]
Sometimes the biggest challenge of any CFD project is getting your data into the correct file format. This script shows how to create Tecplot format files from MATLAB® data imported from simple text files. […]
This Tip describes imposing a 3D wing model on 3D flow field in Tecplot 360. The 3D flow field data are obtained using Volumetric Three-Component Velocimetry (V3V) where the three components of the velocity vectors are measured in a 3D volume of 140X140X100 mm3. Figure 1 shows slices in x-z and y-z planes of the streamwise mean velocity over a periodically cambered plate at an angle of attack of 8 […]
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