Hi I appreciate the advice! The simulation I'm running is at steady state, meaning we are looking at a temperature gradient, and the temperature is no longer changing over time.
The data is also at steady state, it appears to be fluctuating in a repeating wave pattern over time. The time interval we're looking at is small enough to show the wave pattern, however if we were to zoom out it would appear as a line.
I would like to see if there is a correlation between the wave pattern and the temperature vs distance so that I can apply the correlation to another simulation set that I know is incorrect.
The way I'm interpreting it is that the temperature from my data-collection may correspond to some distance from the steady state simulation. In this case, the simulation is telling us the temperature across a distance.