2.3 Refreshing FLUENT Input Data

You can refresh the input data for a cell by right-clicking on the cell and selecting the Refresh option from the context menu. The Refresh command passes modified upstream data to the cell but does not conduct any long-running operations to regenerate the cell's output data.

For example, you can refresh the mesh by right-clicking on the Setup cell in Workbench and selecting the Refresh option from the context menu. The state of the Setup cell becomes Update Required. It will become Up-to-Date the next time you launch FLUENT from the Setup cell, or if you select the Update option from the context menu of the Setup cell.

You can refresh the input data for the Setup cell in a FLUENT-based system by using either the Refresh command from the cell's context menu or by selecting the Refresh Input Data option in the FLUENT File menu if FLUENT is already open.

Selecting the Update option from the context menu performs a Refresh command (if needed) before performing the Update command. You do not need to perform a Refresh and an Update in two separate steps.

If you open FLUENT after making a modification to the mesh and without refreshing the input data, you will be asked whether you want to load the modified mesh before FLUENT launches.

If FLUENT is open and you make a modification to the mesh, you will be informed that the upstream mesh has changed and asked whether you want to load the new mesh before proceeding.