PipeWithScalarField

Visualizing a pipe with scalar field quantities along the pipe axis

Diagram

Information

This information is part of the Modelica Standard Library maintained by the Modelica Association.

Model PipeWithScalarField visualizes a pipe and a scalar field along the pipe axis. The latter is shown by mapping the scalar field to color values with a color map and utilizing this color at the perimeter associated with the corresponding axis location. Typically the scalar field value is a temperature, but might be also another quantity. Predefined color maps are available from MultiBody.Visualizers.Colors.ColorMaps and can be selected via parameter "colorMap". A color map with the corresponding scalar field values can be exported as vector-graphics in svg-format with function MultiBody.Visualizers.Colors.colorMapToSvg. Connector frame_a of this component is located in the center of the circle at the left side of the pipe and the pipe axis is oriented along the x-axis of frame_a, see figure below in which frame_a is visualized with a coordinate system:

The color coding is shown in the next figure. It was generated with MultiBody.Visualizers.Colors.colorMapToSvg using the following call:

colorMapToSvg(Modelica.Mechanics.MultiBody.Visualizers.Colors.ColorMaps.jet(),
              height=50, nScalars=6, T_max=100, caption="Temperature in C");

Parameters (11)

animation

Value: true

Type: Boolean

Description: = true, if animation shall be enabled

rOuter

Value:

Type: Radius (m)

Description: Outer radius of pipe

length

Value:

Type: Length (m)

Description: Length of pipe

xsi

Value: Modelica.Math.Vectors.relNodePositions(12)

Type: Real[:]

Description: [:] Relative position along the pipe with x[1] = 0, x[end] = 1

T_min

Value:

Type: Real

Description: Minimum value of T that corresponds to colorMap[1,:]

T_max

Value:

Type: Real

Description: Maximum value of T that corresponds to colorMap[end,:]

n_colors

Value: 64

Type: Integer

Description: Number of colors in the colorMap

specularCoefficient

Value: 0.7

Type: SpecularCoefficient

Description: Reflection of ambient light (= 0: light is completely absorbed)

transparency

Value: 0

Type: Real

Description: Transparency of shape: 0 (= opaque) ... 1 (= fully transparent)

n_rOuter

Value: 30

Type: Integer

Description: Number of points along outer radius

n_length

Value: 20

Type: Integer

Description: Number of points along length

Inputs (1)

T

Type: Real[size(xsi, 1)]

Description: [:] Scalar values at position xsi*length (will be visualized by color)

Connectors (1)

frame_a

Type: Frame_a

Description: Coordinate system in which visualization data is resolved

Components (2)

world

Type: World

pipe

Type: PipeWithScalarField

Used in Examples (1)

Surfaces

Modelica.Mechanics.MultiBody.Examples.Elementary

Demonstrate the visualization of a sine surface, as well as a torus and a wheel constructed from a surface