20. Reporting Alphanumeric Data

ANSYS FLUENT provides tools for computing and reporting integral quantities at surfaces and boundaries. These tools enable you to find the mass flow rate and heat transfer rate through boundaries, the forces and moments on boundaries, and the area, integral, flow rate, average, and mass average (among other quantities) on a surface or in a volume. In addition, you can print histograms of geometric and solution data, set reference values for the calculation of nondimensional coefficients, and compute projected surface areas. You can also print or save a summary report of the models, boundary conditions, and solver settings in the current case.

This chapter describes some of the background behind ANSYS FLUENT's reporting features.

Additional information about using these reporting tools can be found in this chapter in the separate User's Guide. Reporting tools for the discrete phase are described in this section in the separate User's Guide.