[Paraview] Visualisation of wind speed with isocurves

[Rafael Castro]

Sorry, David. Probably the zip file is a bit big. So here there is a
Dropbox link to download it.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/5fwxrfz8mwq9vol/foam.zip
Regards

2013/8/13 Rafael Castro <bitacovir at gmail.com>:
> Hi, David, Thanks for respond.
> Here I attached a zip file with the simulation on a wall that I
> produced using ODS-Studio and OpenFOAM. This tool has general
> parameters to set up OpenFOAM. So I don't know if what you need is
> included in the file.
> Regards
>
>
> 2013/8/13 David E DeMarle <dave.demarle at kitware.com>:
>> Do you have a small foam file that you can share?
>>
>> The trick will be to get both the initial wind vector and the converged wind
>> vector together in the same data set (ie from time = initial and time =
>> last). Once you do that you can use a calculator expression (or python
>> calculator expression) to get the magnitude of each and divide to get a
>> scalar field, which you can then contour.
>>
>> David E DeMarle
>> Kitware, Inc.
>> R&D Engineer
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>>
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 8:25 PM, Rafael Castro <bitacovir at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi. I'm Architect who is learning about wind phenomena around buildings.
>>> I've already run a wind simulation with OpenFoam using ODS-Studio and
>>> I had some beautiful visualization with Paraview
>>> My question is about how to visualise isocurves of shelter parameter
>>> around the model like the picture (Fig.2) in this paper:
>>> http://i.imgur.com/OmUXWWj.png
>>>
>>> The paper is by Wisse, J. A. A Philosophy for Teaching Wind in the
>>> Built Environment Energy and Buildings, 1988, 11, 157-161
>>> http://www.sciencedirect.com/science...78778888900321
>>>
>>> I would like to visualise similar isocurves representing the ratio of
>>> wind speed around the model to the input wind speed. I don't have
>>> clear idea how Paraview shows isocurves or isosurfaces in my
>>> simulation. Apparently, it shows pressure, but I like areas showing a
>>> ratio of speed.
>>> Is it possible to set up Paraview for this kind of visualisation? I
>>> don't know if my question makes sense (my English is second language).
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> --
>>> --
>>> Atte.
>>> Rafael Moya Castro
>>> http://www.bitacoravirtual.cl/
>>> _______________________________
>>> "Hay que ser absolutamente moderno".
>>> Arthur Rimbaud
>>>
>>>
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>>> Atte.
>>> Rafael Moya Castro
>>> http://www.bitacoravirtual.cl/
>>> _______________________________
>>> "Hay que ser absolutamente moderno".
>>> Arthur Rimbaud
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Rafael Moya Castro
http://www.bitacoravirtual.cl/
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"Hay que ser absolutamente moderno".
Arthur Rimbaud