Bug in Ablation example

[raph-luc]

🔍 Before submitting the issue

• I have searched among the existing issues
• I am using a Python virtual environment

🐞 Description of the bug

This is the output image produce by the example, it does not look correct to me:

Also getting the messages below. Seems to potentially be due to updated TUI in newer Fluent versions, and I guess the commands in the example used older Fluent versions, however even fixing these (by using default options in Fluent v231) does not change the results.

'yes' unknown -- enter choice again.
'yes' unknown -- enter choice again.
'no' unknown -- enter choice again.
'yes' unknown -- enter choice again.
'yes' unknown -- enter choice again.
'yes' unknown -- enter choice again.
'no' unknown -- enter choice again.
'yes' unknown -- enter choice again.
'yes' unknown -- enter choice again.
'yes' unknown -- enter choice again.
'no' unknown -- enter choice again.
'yes' unknown -- enter choice again.

Also get some error messages on Fluent (though this example does not run any iterations and uses an existing dat file):

absolute pressure limited to 1.000000e+00 in 48732 cells on zone 189 

 turbulent viscosity limited to viscosity ratio of 1.000000e+05 in 48732 cells 

 turbulent viscosity limited to viscosity ratio of 1.000000e+05 in 48732 cells

I can fix the TUI commands so that the unknown -- enter choice again errors stop, but that doesn't change anything. Something else seems to be wrong.

I would guess the absolute pressure limitation is what is causing this, but not sure why this is happening (edit: never mind, changing the limits does not help). Need help figuring this one out.

📝 Steps to reproduce

Run examples/Ablation-tutorial/ablation.py

💻 Which operating system are you using?

Windows

📀 Which ANSYS version are you using?

v231. Edit: Tested with Fluent v222 and it doesn't work due to missing API settings, and my Fluent v232 installation seems to be missing "hsf" libraries.

🐍 Which Python version are you using?

3.10

📦 Installed packages

Installed packages

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-e git+https://github.com/pyansys/pyfluent-visualization.git@235efc64c6263149db2288deb245f915fc9d0ec2#egg=ansys_fluent_visualization
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[raph-luc]

@rploconnor can you help me figure this one out? does this example not work with more recent fluent versions?

Opening the dat file in CFD-Post directly seems to work fine:

Not sure what is going on

Loading the dat file inside Fluent directly also works fine:

Also, can we perhaps make this example run at least a few iterations? I think the example would be more useful then. It currently immediately diverges if you try running any iterations at all.