Setting Up Scenes and Plots
The starting file for this tutorial provides several pre-defined scenes and plots.
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Expand the Scenes node and open the following
scenes:
- Direct Solar Irradiation
- Streamlines
- Reflector Temperature
- Lens Temperature
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Set the field functions that are displayed in the scenes as follows:
Node Property Setting Direct Solar Irradiation
Scalar 1
Scalar
FieldFunction Streamlines
Streamlines 1
Scalar FieldFunction Velocity: Magnitude Reflector Temperature
Scalar 1
Scalar FieldFunction Temperature Lens Temperature
Scalar 1
Scalar FieldFunction Temperature
For the streamlines in the Streamlines scene, set
the vector field from which the streamlines are computed:
- Select the node and set Vector Field to Velocity.
To set up the plots:
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Expand the Plots node and open the following
plots:
- Min/Max Temperature Plot
- Irradiation Rear Housing Plot
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Expand the Reports node and set the field functions for
the reports that are displayed in the plots as follows:
Node Property Setting Temperature Reports Field Function Temperature Irradiation Rear Housing Field Function For SPMC simulations, boundary irradiation plots, such as the Irradiation Rear Housing Plot, allow you to judge convergence of the SPMC solver. Noisy boundary irradiation plots generally indicate that you need to reduce the statistical sampling factor in order to consider more aggregated rays in the final irradiation field.
By default, Simcenter STAR-CCM+ automatically normalizes the residuals for flow, energy, and
turbulence. For this tutorial, you turn off the normalization:
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Expand the Monitors node, multi-select the following
monitors, and set Normalization Option to
Off:
- Continuity
- Energy
- Tdr
- Tke
- X-momentum
- Y-momentum
- Z-momentum
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Save the simulation
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