Results Viewer

Results viewer can be used to display and analyze results from an XML Result file. Results Viewer can be used for:

  • Displaying XML Result results of an object
  • Running complex queries on the XML Result data

To start using Results Viewer click the “Results Viewer” tab, if it is not there, user can open it from PostProcessing→Results Viewer. XML Result results if selected objects will be displayed in the Results Viewer window.

Note: To be able to display the results from an XML Result, Results Viewer must first process this file. If, for some reason this can’t be done (i.e. because no XML Result file was generated by the solver, XML Result file mas manually moved to some other folder etc.), an error message will be displayed instead of the results information. If this is the case, it is possible for the user to re-generate results data from a XML Result (either from the default XML Result that is in the same folder with the .flo file or by selecting the XML Result file to be used).

View Results for Detailed Single Entity

Option to view detailed results for a selected object.

  1. Select an object; XML Result data related to the selected object will be displayed inside the Results Viewer window
  2. Results Viewer window is interactive. Tables can be collapsed / expanded, plot axis can be changed (i.e. for segment / station data plots)

The above example shows the results of 3 different objects. The results are grouped under sections. If there is Station and/Segment Data, the tables are plotted automatically.

View Results for Entire Model

This option shows the selected results for all objects that belongs to selected type.

Filter by object type:Enables to select Chambers or Elements

Filter by object subtype: Enables to select subtypes of selected object type.

Chambers:

  • All (#) → selects all the chambers, the # in the parenthesis represents the number of objects of that type/subtype
  • M (#) → Momentum chambers
  • P (#) → Plenum Chambers
  • I (#) → Inertial
  • E (#) → Elevation

Elements:

  • All (#) → selects all the chambers, the # in the parenthesis represents the number of objects of that type/subtype

Results List: Results of the selected object types to be displayed

Query Results

For example, to filter the list to contain only the chambers with [OUTPUT][TOTAL_P] value greater than 100 and [OUTPUT][ERROR1] < 0.001:

  1. Filter by object type: Enables to select Chambers or Elements
  2. Filter by object subtype: Enables to select subtypes of selected object type.
  3. Filter by result: type the filter for the results
  1. Start typing “TOTAL_P”, dropdown list will display available options
  2. Highlight [OUTPUT][TOTAL_P] and press <ENTER>
  3. Continue typing “> 100” and add && and type ERROR to see [OUTPUT][ERROR1] in drop down menu
  4. Select [OUTPUT][ERROR1] and write < 0.001
  5. Final text in the box should be: “[OUTPUT][TOTAL_P] > 100 && [OUTPUT][ERROR1] < 0.001”

As you type, you’ll notice that the Objects list is updated dynamically. When the proper query is complete, the list will contain only the objects whose results satisfy the query. Clicking the “Create Group” button will create a group in Flow Simulator that contains the objects from the filtered list. For example, the name of the group created with the query above could be “out_pt_gt_100_and_out_error1_lt_0_001”.