2D Streamlines

[sroccella]

Dear all,

in the new Simscale on-line postprocessor I would like to know how to get 2D streamlines in a 3D analysis. I am analysing the flow around a drone with four propellers and I would like to visualize the 2D streamlines on the symmetry plane dividing the drone in two half.

Thanks a lot,
Regards
Stefano

[jake_steidinger]

Hello you can do this with the Post - Processing: Cutting Planes. Once your simulation is completed this option appears.

Then from there you can select a cut axis of x,y,z and inverse of the three and then select what you want to view, velocity, temperature, ect.

Here is a tutorial link aswell! Tutorial: Post-Processing Fluid Flow Simulations | SimScale

Best,
Jake

[sroccella]

Dear Jake, thanks a lot for your suggestion. From the tutorial I see that I can visualize velocity vectors on the cutting plane but I would like to visualize the streamlines (two dimensional curves tangent to velocity vectors) on this plane.

Regards
Stefano

[jake_steidinger]

Stefano,

CFD Post-Processing Guide for SimScale

In this post we will show how to use SimScale online post processor for CFD simulation post processing. We will use the project “Aerodynamic of F1 Race car”, import the project by clicking at this link. The project contains an incompressible steady state run which will be used for post processing. Instructions Once simulation run is finished (the progress bar turns green) then click on the Results and select Post-Process results. [image] Immediately you will be moved to the Post-Process…

This is a help post/tutorial that addresses how to create the streamlines. There are several other posts and pages that can be found by searching “streamlines” on the forum if this one doesn’t address what you need.

Best of luck!
Jake