Hi, how can I show the time in my animation, may animation is a two-fluid transient case. I want to show how gas and particle mixing in from 0-5 s, however, I don't know how to put the time bar on the animation?
To my knowledge no custom text elements can be added to the rather simple Fluent animation postprocessing.
Kaustav Chaudhury
has already described the solution. In CFD-Post animations of transient results data you can add arbitrary custom text strings and those can contain the time variable. By that you can give each frame in the generated movie a time stamp, so that in the movie a changing time counter is shown. It is a good idea to give this time counter a fixed number format, because otherwise you can end up with the effect, that the number format of the shown time is changing from frame to frame, which makes it rather hardly readable during the play of the resulting movie.
Open CFD-Post, Click on "Insert" then click on "Text", check Embed Auto Annotation then select "Time Value/ Time Step" from type drop down list. Now you can make the video with the corresponding time-steps.