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Chapter 4. Reading and Writing Files

During a

FLUENT

session you may need to import and export several kinds of ﬁles. Filesthat are read include mesh, case, data, proﬁle,

Scheme

, and journal files. Files that arewritten include case, data, profile, journal, and transcript files.

FLUENT

also has featuresthat allow you to save panel layouts and hardcopies of graphics windows. You can alsoexport data for use with various visualization and postprocessing tools. These operationsare described in the following sections.

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Section4.1:Shortcuts for Reading and Writing Files

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Section4.2:Reading Mesh Files

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Section4.3:Reading and Writing Case and Data Files

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Section4.4:Reading

FLUENT/UNS

and

RAMPANT

Case and Data Files

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Section4.5:Importing

FLUENT

4 Case Files

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Section4.6:Importing

FIDAP

Neutral Files

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Section4.7:Creating and Reading Journal Files

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Section4.8:Creating Transcript Files

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Section4.9:Reading and Writing Proﬁle Files

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Section4.10:Reading and Writing Boundary Conditions

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Section4.11:Writing a Boundary Grid

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Section4.12:Saving Hardcopy Files

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Section4.13:Exporting Data

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Section4.14:Grid-to-Grid Solution Interpolation

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Section4.15:Reading

Scheme

Source Files

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Section4.16:The

.fluent

File

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Section4.17:Saving the Panel Layout

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Reading and Writing Files

4.1 Shortcuts for Reading and Writing Files

The following features in

FLUENT

make reading and writing ﬁles convenient:

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Automatic appending or detection of default ﬁlename suﬃxes.

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Binary ﬁle reading and writing.

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Automatic detection of ﬁle format (text/binary).

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Recent ﬁle list.

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Reading and writing of compressed ﬁles.

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Tilde expansion.

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Automatic numbering of ﬁles.

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Ability to disable the overwrite conﬁrmation prompt.

4.1.1 Default File Sufﬁxes

Each type of ﬁle read or written in

FLUENT

has a default file suffix associated with it.When you specify the first part of the filename (the prefix) for the commonly used files,the solver automatically appends or detects the appropriate suffix. For example, to writea case file named

myfile.cas

, just specify the preﬁx

myfile

and

.cas

is automaticallyappended. Similarly, to read the case ﬁle named

myfile.cas

into the solver, you can just specify

myfile

and

FLUENT

automatically searches for a ﬁle of that name with thesuﬃx

.cas

.The default file suffix for case and data files, PDF (Probability Density Function) files,DTRM ray files, profiles, scheme files, journal files, etc., are automatically detected andappended. The appropriate default file suffix appears in the

Select File

dialog box foreach type of ﬁle.

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4.1 Shortcuts for Reading and Writing Files

4.1.2 Binary Files

When you write a case, data, or ray file, a binary file is saved by default. Binary files takeup less memory than text files and can be read and written by

FLUENT

more quickly.

Note:

You cannot read and edit a binary ﬁle, as you can do for a text ﬁle.

To save a text ﬁle, turn oﬀ the

Write Binary Files

option in the

Select File

dialog box whenyou are writing the ﬁle.

FLUENT

can read binary ﬁles that were saved on diﬀerent platforms, butother products (such as

TGrid