Surface Velocity BC

  1. From the Post Browser, under Boundary Collections > Flow Boundaries, right click on Vehicle and click Edit.
    The Display Properties Dialog – Surface Coloring Tab opens.
  2. Set the Display value to velocity.
  3. Set the Legend Type to Global.
  4. Click on the lightning button of the Legend field to Reset Range.
  5. Press the Legend menu button.
    The Legend Micro-Dialog opens.
  6. From the Legend Micro-Dialog, click on Title, type Surface Velocity BC in the Title field and check the Horizontal title check box.
  7. From the Legend Micro-Dialog, click on Format. Change the Precision value to 2 and set the Colorbar labels value to Floating point.
  8. From the Legend Micro-Dialog, click on Display. Change the position to Upper Center by clicking on the Upper Center button, set the Orientation to Horizontal, and change the Length value to 0.3.
  9. From the Legend Micro-Dialog, click on Colormap, then check the Scalar based opacity checkbox, and click on the menu next to it.
    Figure 1.
    The Scalar Based Opacity Dialog opens.
  10. From the Scalar Based Opacity Dialog, make sure the Opacity type is set to Normalized, and the User defined range checkbox is checked.
  11. From the Scalar Based Opacity Dialog, click on the Plus button to add a row to the table (there should now be three) and set the values as shown in Figure 18.
  12. Close the Scalar Based Opacity Dialog.
  13. From the Display Properties Micro-Dialog, switch to the Contour Line Display tab and toggle off the Display field.
  14. From the Boundary Groups Guide Bar, click on the green check mark to accept.
  15. From the Post Browser, under Boundary Collections > Flow Boundaries, right click on Belts and click Show.
  16. From the Post Browser, under Boundary Collections > Flow Boundaries, right click on Belts and click Edit. The Display Properties Dialog – Surface Coloring Tab opens.
  17. Set the Display value to velocity.
  18. Set the Legend Type to Global.
  19. From the Boundary Groups Guide Bar, click on the green check mark to accept.
  20. From the Post ribbon, click on the Surface Streamlines Tool.
    Figure 2.
    The Surface Streamlines Guide Bar opens.
  21. From the Surface Streamlines Guide Bar, set the selector type to Boundary Groups, then use the Advanced Selection Tool tool to select the Vehicle and Belts boundary groups.
    Note: You must close the Advanced Selection Tool for the selection to apply.
  22. From the Surface Streamlines Guide Bar, click on the Seeds button. The Seeds Micro-Dialog opens.
    Figure 3.
  23. From the Seeds Micro-Dialog, set the Target point count to 3000.
  24. From the Seeds Micro-Dialog, click on the hamburger menu expander.
    Figure 4.
    The Generation Method Micro-Dialog opens.
  25. From the Generation Method Micro-Dialog, set the Vector variable to velocity and the Integration direction to both.
  26. From the Seeds Micro-Dialog, click on Calculate. The Display Properties Dialog – Surface Coloring Tab opens.
  27. From the Display Properties Dialog – Surface Coloring Tab, toggle off Display.
  28. From the Display Properties Micro-Dialog, switch to the Vector Display Tab.
    Figure 5.
    The Display Properties Micro-Dialog – Vector Display Tab opens.
  29. From the Display Properties Micro-Dialog – Vector Display Tab, toggle on the display button. Set the Display value to velocity, the Vector scale factor to 0.1.
  30. Set Color to constant and set the color to black.
  31. Toggle the Subset button and move the slider all the way to the left.
  32. Click on the hamburger menu in the Display row to expand the Vector Specifications Micro-Dialog.
    Figure 6.
  33. From the Vector Specifications Micro-Dialog, set the Vector length to Uniform.
  34. From the Surface Streamlines Guide Bar, click on the green check mark to accept.
  35. From the Post Browser, under Standard Output > Visualizations > Surface Streamlines, right click on the newly created Surface Streamlines and rename as Vehicle_and_Belts.
  36. Capture an image using the Front-Top-Left view.
  37. From the Post Browser, under Standard Output > Visualizations > Surface Streamlines, right click on Vehicle_and_Belts and click Hide.
  38. From the Post Browser, under Standard Output > Boundaries > Flow Boundaries, right click on Belts and click Hide.
  39. From the Post Browser, right click on Legend Manager, then click on Edit.
    Figure 7.
    The Legend Manager Micro-Dialog opens.
  40. From the Legend Manager Micro-Dialog, for the Legend Variable velocity, toggle off the Legend.
  41. Press Esc key on the keyboard or right-click on the viewer and swipe left to exit the Legend Manager Micro-Dialog.