# My First Simulation

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Hey @Robert01,  
welcome to simscale 🙂 .  
The time consumption of a simulation depends on a few things,

- the count of cells in the mesh
- the count of used cores
- the simulation type itself

I didn’t see the Meshing properties in the tutorial, so maybe another algorithm (Hex-dominated) is used there ?  
In terms of the differently looking results, you need to assign the Z velocity not the X velocity.  
To get a nice color gradient, you have to use the point data instead of cell data.  
Here is a very good summary about the different types.  
[Link](https://www.simscale.com/forum/t/post-processing-data-types/81139)

Best regards  
Kai

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