The EXPLOITS interface is used for viewing and exploring the results of the simulation, as well as for setting up the problem at the start.

Entry is by way of the VR Viewer option of the PHOENICS Commander, choice of which presents the user with a picture of the world which he created; but this now has a different set of control buttons.

Important features to note are:-

• the "probe" and its positioning;
• the ability to switch the "horizon" off and on;
• the ability to represent objects in wire-frame (ie transparent) form; and
• the abilities to change the view-point, and to zoom in and out, in the same manner as at data-input time.

These can also be provided, if ordered in advance.

Quite apart from the EXPLOITS Virtual Reality interface, the standard graphical-display program of PHOENICS, called PHOTON, is available for representing and exploring the results of the simulation.

The pictures shown in sections 1 and 3 above were created with its aid.

PHOENICS also possesses interfaces to the best-known display packages produced by independent vendors, for example TECPLOT, WAVEFRONT, AVS, etc.

The following examples related to flow around automobiles and to stirred reactors (other PHOENICS specialities) were produced by way of TECPLOT.

World User Association Conference, Freiburg, 1996

The grid used for the flow-around-automobile test case

Slava Syomin's GCV (General Colocated Velocities) method was used