Chapter 10 - Pre- and Postprocessing (the GUI Interface)

Abstract

Depending on how the programmer architects the solution postprocessing utilities, there may be one or more utilities (some with very special purposes, such as to create interface binary files for animation graphical tools). Thus, depending on the kind of information that one needs to extract from the solution, one might choose many different output forms or utilities to use. One useful function is to provide the user with a utility that can selectively edit a group or series of part solutions (in time) and provide averages of the dependent variables (in the engineering units specified by the user) to answer certain operational questions that might arise. Of equal importance is the ability to perform trend analysis of different simulations of reactor operating conditions and occurrences to assist the operators in making important decisions about plant operation. Thus, in the same way that it is useful to make special edit tables of a few parts, it is also useful to be able to create trend plots of the temporal behavior of certain sets of dependent variables.