nTop 5.42 is here! This release features the new Tuple and JSON from Tuple blocks! These blocks create additional functionality of custom blocks by allowing multiple outputs from a single custom block. As with every release, nTop’s dedicated support team is ready to answer your questions. Please visit support.ntop.com to gain access to helpful tutorials and support articles.
Tuple
The Tuple block creates a Tuple from a collection of objects. The order of inputs determines the order of the list elements in the output's properties.
- Applications:
- Useful when attempting to propagate multiple outputs from a single custom block.
- Location: Beta > Create
- Input: Any
- Output: Tuple
JSON from Tuple
The JSON from Tuple block converts a Tuple type into JSON format. Tuples containing scalar elements can be converted to JSON.
- Applications:
- Useful when attempting to propagate multiple outputs from a single custom block.
- Location: Beta > Create
- Tuple: Scalar-based Tuple to convert into a JSON format.
- Keys: Specify keys for JSON
- Unit System: Unit system that the data should be translated to.
- Output: JSON
Usage Improvements
- Bulk Volume Calculation for Flow Analysis: Modified flow-through time calculations to evaluate bulk volume using only active fluid regions, rather than the entire bounding box.
- Temperature Initialization for Flow Analysis CHT: Updated Conjugate Heat Transfer Laplace initialization to properly utilize temperatures provided by convection boundaries.
- Backflow-Stabilized Pressure Boundaries for Flow Analysis: Improved pressure boundary dynamics implementation that clamps the normal velocity component on pressure boundaries. This prevents non-physical flux in the wrong direction by auto-detecting inlet versus outlet conditions from the initial velocity field.
Bug Fixes
- We fixed an issue with Aircraft Flow Analysis that caused a runtime warning (divide by zero) encountered during initialization.
- We resolved an issue with Aircraft Flow Analysis where the results had duplicate entries for velocity, pressure, and force fields.