PipeWithScalarFieldVisualizing a pipe with a scalar field |
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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 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. The position and orientation of the center of the circle at the left end of the pipe is defined via parameters "r_0" and "R", respectively. The pipe axis is oriented along the x-axis of the local coordinate system described by "R", see figure below:
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 (10)
| rOuter |
Value: Type: Radius (m) Description: Outer radius of pipe |
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| length |
Value: Type: Length (m) Description: Length of pipe |
| n_rOuter |
Value: 30 Type: Integer Description: Number of points along outer radius |
| n_length |
Value: 10 Type: Integer Description: Number of points along length |
| 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) |
| xsi |
Value: Modelica.Math.Vectors.relNodePositions(12) Type: Real[:] Description: Vector of relative positions 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 |
Inputs (3)
| R |
Default Value: Frames.nullRotation() Type: Orientation Description: Orientation object to rotate the world frame into the surface frame |
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| r_0 |
Default Value: {0, 0, 0} Type: Position[3] (m) Description: Position vector from origin of world frame to origin of surface frame, resolved in world frame |
| T |
Type: Real[size(xsi, 1)] Description: Vector of values at positions xsi*length (will be visualized by color) |
Components (2)
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R |
Type: Orientation Description: Orientation object to rotate the world frame into the surface frame |
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surface |
Type: Surface |
Used in Components (1)
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Modelica.Mechanics.MultiBody.Visualizers Visualizing a pipe with scalar field quantities along the pipe axis |