Modelica.Mechanics.MultiBody.Visualizers.Advanced.SurfaceCharacteristics

Functions returning surface descriptions

Information

This package contains functions that are used to define parameterized surfaces for use with the Surface model.

Extends from Modelica.Icons.Package (Icon for standard packages).

Package Content

Name	Description
torus	Function defining the surface characteristic of a torus
pipeWithScalarField	Function defining the surface characteristic of a pipe where a scalar field value is displayed with color along the pipe axis

Modelica.Mechanics.MultiBody.Visualizers.Advanced.SurfaceCharacteristics.torus

Function defining the surface characteristic of a torus

Information

Function torus computes the X,Y,Z arrays to visualize a torus with model Torus. The left image below shows a torus with ri=0.5 m and ro = 0.2 m. The right images below shows the torus with the additional parameter settings:

  opening    =   45 degree
  startAngle = -135 degree
  stopAngle  =  135 degree

Extends from Modelica.Mechanics.MultiBody.Interfaces.partialSurfaceCharacteristic.

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Modelica.Mechanics.MultiBody.Visualizers.Advanced.SurfaceCharacteristics.pipeWithScalarField

Function defining the surface characteristic of a pipe where a scalar field value is displayed with color along the pipe axis

Information

Function pipeWithScalarField computes the X,Y,Z,C arrays in order to visualize a pipe and a scalar field along the pipe axis with model PipeWithScalarField. 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 input argument "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. An example is shown in the next figure:

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

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

Extends from Modelica.Mechanics.MultiBody.Interfaces.partialSurfaceCharacteristic.

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