I am performing turbulent analysis on a turbine cascade with thermal energy model, turbulence modelling set for RNG k-epsilon. I want to know to plot non - dimensional graphs.
1. Write your non-dimensional properties as CCL expressions.
2. Create for each of those dimensionless properties a so-called additional variable, i.e. a user defined variable in CFD-Post
3. Plot the chart with x- and y-axes getting assigned the required two additional variables, which are now dimensionless.
Please mind: a CCL expression by itself is not yet doing any calculation, neither it isn't yet consuming any memory. A CCL expression is essentially only a calculus recipe, not yet the assignment to a variable in memory. Therefore you cannot yet directly use CCL expressions for assignments to x- and y-axes of a chart.
Only the 2nd step does the actual calculation (using the CCL recipe) and on a particular part of your geometry, e.g. a boundary condition or the surface of a bluffed body like an airfoil. Once the results of that CCL-based calculus are stored in memory (the user-defined additional variable), they can be used for other secondary purposes like chart drawing.
Easier would be to create non dimensional variables in CFD post. In your variables tab create a new variable called, for example, non dimensional pressure: Type " Pressure / #your ref pressure# [your unit] "
You can use Tecplot (which is a useful software, especially for drawing contours) to plot the graphs in their original values.Then, since in this software, the parameters are defined by equations, you can change them. To clarify, you should export the results from ANSYS for tecplot and change the values by defining new function.