Ansys Dynamic Reporting Gallery


Plots

At the core of any report package is a solid plotting engine. Nexus provides a flexible, interactive plotting engine capable of many different types of plots.


Plot 1

Profile of Force pressure on air foil. Includes the profile of the air foil.

Plot 2

Work vs. Inflow mass. Size of the markers is the ratio of chemicals. Each data point is colored by Temperature. Custom text can be associated with each marker for enhanced interactive exploration.


Plot 3

Temperature profile for three different Z positions. There an error bar associated with each observation.

Plot 4

Probability Distribution Function of Temperature in a combustion engine seconds after ignition. The results from two different models are shows for comparison.

Plot 5

Pie chart of the contribution of each part to the Total Drag.

Layouts

The layout template structure is the skeleton of any Nexus report. A rich collection of templates allows the report designer to organize information in the manner best suited to the intended audience


Table of Contents

The system includes semi-automated table of contents generation.





Carousel Layout

The items are laid out in a carousel.


Column Layout

The elements are placed in columns. In this case, 2 columns.

Box Layout

You can arbitrarly set the size and position of each element at the pixel level.



You can place text and other items anywhere you'd like. Even in scrollable containers!


Tab Layout

Each element is placed in a separate tab.




Slider Layout

You can switch between the items via a slider.
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Panel Layout

Panels support multi-column layout and can take the form of a callout (with a solid bar on the left side) or a titled panel (with a blocked off header like the Table of Contents panel).


Image comparison

A parameter study for a pipe with two inlets is run. Three different values for the velocity atthe first inlet and four velocity values at the second inlet are explored. This results in twelve design points. Here, you can evaluate the results from the simulation via side by side image comparison.

Note that you can span, zoom and turn on the grid on the images for a better comparison. A detailed description on how to create such comparison can be found at this link.

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Enhanced image comparison

A parameter study for a pipe with two inlets is run. Three different values for the velocity atthe first inlet and four velocity values at the second inlet are explored. This results in twelve design points. Here, you can evaluate the results from the simulation via side by side image comparison.

The images displayed are enhanced. This means you can access information about the value of a variable by clicking on the pixel. A detailed description on how to create such comparison can be found at this link.

Choose variable to enable palette
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Images

Images tagged with their Nexus IDs are a core part of the display framework. They can be displayed in specialized layouts such as the Carousel and Slider to enhance their presentation. Images can be left their native size or resized manually. Nexus "deep" images can show additional options for exploration.


Regular image
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"Deep" image


Animations

Movies can be integrated into any report and displayed in various ways. Mpeg4 is the format that works best in Nexus.



Tree Items

Nexus supports formal data hierarchies in the form of trees. They can be interactively expanded and collapsed. They support dynamic, rule-based formatting to identify outliers and data of interest.


Basic Display

Here is an example of basic tree display. Expand the various items to view the complete dataset.

Analysis
Parts
Variables

Tree Merge

Generators can be applied to trees. The simplest generator can merge multiple trees into a single tree.


Input Trees

Here are two trees we would like to compare. Note that most (but not all) of the row names are the same. The tree merge operation works by collecting cells with the same tree row names.
Configuration
SolverFluent
Tolerance0.02
OrderQuadratic
Max Iterations10000
Output Values
Output pressure136.52
Output temperature295.73
Input Values
Inlet pressure310.64
Inlet diameter3.02
Viscosity1.09
Configuration
SolverFluent
Tolerance0.02
Max Iterations10000
Output Values
Output pressure131.14
Output temperature267.41
Input Values
Inlet pressure317.01
Inlet diameter2.58
Viscosity0.94

Merged Trees

The columns from the input trees are merged into multiple tree columns. Note that the operation has been configured to use the string "N/A" for cells that do not exist in the common tree layout.
Values retain their input nature allowing conditional formatting based on text or numeric values to be applied to the tree value columns. In the example, we apply conditional formatting to columns past the first one, comparing the values to the first data column. "N/A" values have a blue background, numeric values smaller than the initial column have a red background while values greater than the first column have a green background.
Design Point 10Design Point 20
Configuration
SolverFluentFluent
Tolerance0.020.02
OrderQuadraticN/A
Max Iterations1000010000
Output Values
Output pressure136.52131.14
Output temperature295.73267.41
Input Values
Inlet pressure310.64317.01
Inlet diameter3.022.58
Viscosity1.090.94

Table Generators

Nexus provides the ability to generate new data derived from existing data. The mechanism to generate temporary data is called Generators. Nexus currently provides a number of Table generators, some of which are highlighted below. See the documentation for the full list.


Original Data

The intial input consists of three simple tables.

Merged Tables

A table merge generator can be used to convert the three individual tables into a single table.

Table Reduction Operation

Rows and columns in tables can have mathematical operations performed on selections of rows and columns. In this example, the minimum and maximum values for each column are computed to create two additional rows, plotted here.

Conditional Formatting

Tables and trees may have conditional formatting applied to their cells. Here, the merged table is displayed with the background color set to green when the Phase value is greater than the other Phase values and red when the value is less than the others. Values outside the range [0.25, -0.25] are displayed in bold typeface.

Θ Phase I Phase II Phase III
0 0.01788 0.83160 -0.91768
10 0.13054 0.79989 -0.93908
20 0.41979 0.61209 -0.93444
30 0.58880 0.39794 -0.89642
40 0.57286 0.37386 -0.95480
50 0.80997 0.19708 -0.91613
60 0.91447 -0.00713 -0.97201
70 0.93784 -0.16764 -0.73066
80 0.98181 -0.36169 -0.64680
90 0.90840 -0.52885 -0.48501
100 1.01052 -0.65648 -0.35199
110 0.92740 -0.74408 -0.11523
120 0.85748 -0.90990 -0.00658
130 0.76335 -0.97170 0.22025
140 0.64581 -0.98266 0.26695
150 0.53821 -0.94716 0.47044
160 0.35369 -0.85616 0.71240
170 0.21048 -0.96546 0.76119
180 -0.02861 -0.84493 0.82442
190 -0.20645 -0.78763 0.93750
200 -0.27351 -0.60081 1.00684
210 -0.52952 -0.55842 0.97770
220 -0.68205 -0.39958 0.97028
230 -0.80275 -0.20935 0.94313
240 -0.87537 0.06385 0.89789
250 -0.98378 0.15130 0.65923
260 -1.03664 0.41301 0.55490
270 -1.00280 0.55901 0.50891
280 -0.98340 0.62397 0.28238
290 -0.97367 0.80393 0.13453
300 -0.78087 0.82508 0.08746
310 -0.83098 0.91529 -0.20565
320 -0.60943 0.92894 -0.37882
330 -0.47955 0.99404 -0.46743
340 -0.34703 0.93392 -0.57204
350 -0.19684 0.96480 -0.68283

Plot Filtering

Display all the queries on a single plot. Use the filters on the left to change the visualization of the queries based on the value of tags associated to each query.
Filters
Select All Deselect All
Remove All



3D Items

Embedded geometry viewer.


File Items

Arbitrary files can be uploaded into Nexus and downloaded to the user's desktop.

File: Download shuttle_direct.evsn


String Items

Generic string and HTML formatted items can be displayed with dynamic macro insertions such as the current date: 04/26/24.


justification = left

Hello, we have 12 parts.


justification = center

Hello, we have 12 parts.


justification = right

Hello, we have 12 parts.


justification = justify

Hello, we have 12 parts.