PipeWithScalarField
Visualizing a pipe with scalar field quantities along the pipe axis
Library
Modelica/Mechanics/MultiBody/Visualizers
Description
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
| Name | Label | Description | Data Type | Valid Values |
|---|---|---|---|---|
mo_animation | animation | = true, if animation shall be enabled | Scalar | true |
mo_rOuter | rOuter | Outer radius of pipe | Scalar | |
mo_length | length | Length of pipe | Scalar | |
mo_xsi | xsi | [:] Relative position along the pipe with x[1] = 0, x[end] = 1 | Vector | |
mo_T | T | [:] Scalar values at position xsi*length (will be visualized by color) | Vector | |
mo_T_min | T_min | Minimum value of T that corresponds to colorMap[1,:] | Scalar | |
mo_T_max | T_max | Maximum value of T that corresponds to colorMap[end,:] | Scalar | |
mo_colorMap | colorMap | Function defining the color map | FromModelica('Modelica.Mechanics.MultiBody.Visualizers.Colors.ColorMaps.gray') | |
mo_n_colors | n_colors | Number of colors in the colorMap | Scalar | |
mo_specularCoefficient | specularCoefficient | Reflection of ambient light (= 0: light is completely absorbed) | Scalar | |
mo_transparency | transparency | Transparency of shape: 0 (= opaque) ... 1 (= fully transparent) | Scalar |
| Name | Label | Description | Data Type | Valid Values |
|---|---|---|---|---|
mo_n_rOuter | n_rOuter | Number of points along outer radius | Scalar | |
mo_n_length | n_length | Number of points along length | Scalar |
Ports
| Name | Type | Description | IO Type | Number |
|---|---|---|---|---|
frame_a | implicit | Coordinate system in which visualization data is resolved | input | 1 |