[Chimera-users] Regarding estimation of volume in 2D

[Elaine Meng]

Hi Poornima,
Sorry, I can't think of how to make that measurement using Chimera.  The volume calculation in Chimera works with 3D isosurfaces. 
Elaine
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Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. 
UCSF Computer Graphics Lab (Chimera team) and Babbitt Lab
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco



On Dec 12, 2011, at 8:50 PM, Poornima Josyula wrote:

> Respected Sir/Madam,
> 
> My name is Poornima and I am a Ph.D. student from India. 
> 
> My area of research is Biofluid Mechanics. I am modeling bubble transport in bifurcating microchannels. 
> 
> I am performing 2D simulations for the above problem using a commercial Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software called ANSYS Fluent. ImageJ is currently used for the purpose of post processing. But, I haven't entirely been successful in estimating the volume accurately. 
> 
> Please find attached a snapshot of the simulation. In that snapshot, my region of interest (ROI) is the red colored area whose volume I have to find out. 
> 
> Is there a way Chimera can help me estimate this volume?
> 
> Please let me know your suggestions. 
> 
> Thank you for your time and patience in reading my mail, despite your busy schedule. 
> 
> Kindly excuse me for any inconvenience caused. 
> 
> Look forward to receive a positive response at the earliest. 
> 
> Have a good day. 
> 
> -- 
> With best regards,
> Poornima Josyula
> Ph.D. Scholar
> Fluid Mechanics Laboratory
> Dept. of Applied Mechanics
> IIT, Madras
> India
> E-mail: poornima.josyula at gmail.com
> 
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