FLUENT data can be read into EnSight in a number of ways: Using FLUENT you have the ability to write out EnSight case file format. You can also use the reader inside EnSight to read the .dat and .case files directly. As of January 2008 we now offer a new FLUENT direct data reader, which improves the speed, robustness, and capability of the reader. Whatever way you choose to use FLUENT and EnSight, you know you will end up with a dynamic, powerful

method to analyze, communicate and visualize your FLUENT results.  Follow this link to view more information about CEI and EnSight on the FLUENT/ANSYS website.

"EnSight allows us to be very precise for the phenomena we want to visualize,” says Alexis Lapouille of Aero Concept Engineering (ACE).  “If you have phenomena at X=1m on a calculation, for example, Fluent requires you to know where the phenomena is to generate the plane for visualization.  With EnSight, you generate an X plane and then simply move it until you find the phenomena.  Similarly, the vortex core feature allows you to find the vortex structure in very little time.”

Application Stories 

Scientists Seek to Protect Marine Ecology with Computational Fluid Dynamics

"EnSight Gold lets us utilize data from a variety of native formats, such as LSDyna, MSC/Nastran, MSC/Dytran, Abaqus, Fluent, and so on. We have a lot of versatility that streamlines our process,” says Fernando Toledo, VRC Manager at Wichita State’s NIAR Crash Dynamics Laboratory. National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR) uses virtual reality to save real lives

British team uses DSSP, extreme visualization to streamline skeleton bobsled aerodynamics
Aero Concept Engineering uses CFD visualization

Tutorial and Awards

How to visualize FLUENT particle tracks in EnSight - This tutorial walks you through the necessary steps in Fluent to get the files, use EnSight's external translator, and perform basic post-processing with the particle information in EnSight. www.ensight.com/screencasts/fluentpart/fluentpart.html

FLUENT exports directly to EnSight

FLUENT users can either export their model directly to EnSight’s case format, or EnSight can read the FLUENT .cas and .dat files directly. This tutorial illustrates how to export from FLUENT into EnSight, and illustrates that the model hierarchy and organization within your FLUENT model is transferred directly into EnSight. This tutorial will also show you how to use the FLUENT Reader in order to read your .cas and .dat files directly into EnSight. Some of the key features of the FLUENT Beta reader are also highlighted. You can download the example dataset provide through this FLUENT_Export.zip.

EnSight users win Fluent User of the Year Awards  

Predicted glass bottle impact stress regions

Dr. Matt Hyre, 2004 winner of the Most Impact of CFD on a Business Process Award. Courtesy of Virginia Military Institute

Knowledge Base
This section below searches the Knowledge Base for information about using EnSight with FLUENT: