PlotFlowField

class sharpy.postproc.plotflowfield.PlotFlowField[source]

Plots the flow field in Paraview and computes the velocity at a set of points in a grid.

The settings that this solver accepts are given by a dictionary, with the following key-value pairs:

Name

Type

Description

Default

Options

postproc_grid_generator

str

Generator used to create grid and plot flow field

GridBox

GridBox

postproc_grid_input

dict

Dictionary containing settings for postproc_grid_generator.

{}

velocity_field_generator

str

Chosen velocity field generator

SteadyVelocityField

velocity_field_input

dict

Dictionary containing settings for the selected velocity_field_generator.

{}

dt

float

Time step.

0.1

include_external

bool

Include external velocities.

True

include_induced

bool

Include induced velocities.

True

stride

int

Number of time steps between plots.

1

num_cores

int

Number of cores to use.

1

vortex_radius

float

Distance below which inductions are not computed.

sharpy.utils.constants.vortex_radius_def