The VIEWPAN Post-Processor

VIEWPAN has principally been developed as a powerful post-processor for the NEWPAN panel method. It provides rich functionality for surface and flowfield visualisation (and is often used out of choice by our customers to post-process other CFD codes).

VIEWPAN forms one element of the tightly integrated CFD suite launched from RUNWAY. The close coupling between solver, pre- and post-processors allows direct transfer of data between the running applications, compatibility of user interfaces, and an unbroken workflow. [link to RUNWAY page]

Key Functionality provided by VIEWPAN

• A 3D environment for displaying and interrogating NEWPAN (and other CFD) results;
• An entity/model "CAD style" database hierarchy, enabling easy management and analysis of several different models simultaneously;
• An integrated Entity/Run Selector, enabling comparison of any number of runs (incidences, wake relaxations, etc) across any number of models;
• A Variable Selector for management/display of flowfield variables, including those of streamlines and viscous boundary layers.
• Powerful viewing capabilities for presentation of 3D and 2D sectional results.
• A unique 3D Graph Viewer: "like carpet plotting, but better"
• An interactive 3D "slicer" - take sectional cuts through a model, and display the results, in any arbitrary plane
• Interactive on-surface streamline generation. "Point and click" streamline seeding, and/or multiple streamline painting
• Off-surface streamline visualisation
• On-surface streamline viscous boundary layer development. Clear 3D visualisation of areas of separation and lines of transition.
• Integration of sectional properties; computation and display of spanwise loadings
• An interface to NEWPAN2D, providing strong viscous coupling and inverse design capabilities
• Complete support for NEWPAN-specific visualisation, e.g. relaxed wake visualisation, non-uniform onset flow, free surfaces and image systems.
• Postscript and TIFF hardcopy output