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Domain Wind Monitor

A Domain Wind Monitor is used to monitor the wind data in the entire Domain. It can monitor the following quantities as shown in the figure below:

The monitor will save its output data to a FLD file (AVS field file) whose name can be specified by the "FLD File" item (Virtualwind generates a default FLD File name and the data file saved to the hard disk will eventually be named by the simulation name plus this FLD File name plus a suffix "monitor"). By default, the "Sampling Status" is always checked on. Checking it off means that this monitor will not do anything – no data will be recorded/generated from this monitor.

To create a Domain Wind Monitor, access the Monitors  →  Create Domain Wind Monitor sub-menu item from the Virtualwind main menu. A new Domain Wind Monitor will then appear in the entity tree under the Monitors item of Atmospheric Conditions.