What does "Average across component boundary" option in "Average Options" in Contour plot specifies? What are the calculations happening with this option for stress ?

DGK
DGK Altair Community Member
edited June 2022 in Community Q&A

What does "Average across component boundary" option in "Average Options" in Contour plot specifies?

What are the calculations happening with this option for stress ?

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  • Varun Venkateswaran
    Varun Venkateswaran
    Altair Employee
    edited June 2022

    This option decides whether the values coming from each component will be averaged at a shared node or not.

    The averaging calculation itself will be based on Averaging method such as Simple or Advanced and other options.

    Simple averaging means that tensor and vector components are extracted, and the invariants are computed prior to averaging.

    Advanced averaging means that tensor (or vector) results are transformed into a consistent system and then each component is averaged separately to obtain an average tensor (or vector).

    You can refer to two topics in Help for more information.

    HyperView>Results>Averaging Options

    HyperView>Results>Nodal Averaging of Elemental Results

  • DGK
    DGK Altair Community Member
    edited June 2022

    This option decides whether the values coming from each component will be averaged at a shared node or not.

    The averaging calculation itself will be based on Averaging method such as Simple or Advanced and other options.

    Simple averaging means that tensor and vector components are extracted, and the invariants are computed prior to averaging.

    Advanced averaging means that tensor (or vector) results are transformed into a consistent system and then each component is averaged separately to obtain an average tensor (or vector).

    You can refer to two topics in Help for more information.

    HyperView>Results>Averaging Options

    HyperView>Results>Nodal Averaging of Elemental Results

    Both the links which are mentioned in the answer are redirecting to altair-internal.okta.com/login/login.htm.

    which seems to be Altair Internal webpages.

    Request you to kindly share the links which are available.

  • Varun Venkateswaran
    Varun Venkateswaran
    Altair Employee
    edited June 2022
    Dhee G said:

    Both the links which are mentioned in the answer are redirecting to altair-internal.okta.com/login/login.htm.

    which seems to be Altair Internal webpages.

    Request you to kindly share the links which are available.

    You can ignore the link in the previous comment.

    You should be able to launch from within the product. Look for Help option in the drop down menus at the top or press F1. 

    It should either open locally installed help or the online version.

    I have Online version which points to https://2021.help.altair.com/2021.2/hwdesktop/hv/index.htm