Obtaining a clean post production contour plot
 

I have successfully modelled, meshed, loaded and finally simulated what is to become a load cell. Unfortunately I am stuck on one specific part that regards general post production.

There are stress-relief channels on two of the four parts making up the entire load cell, with one of the volumes shown below (fig 1). I am interested in obtaining a contour plot of the von Mises stresses occurring at areas 527, 802, 803. I could easily obtain a contour plot of the von Mises stresses specifically for area 527 by moving the working plane around this area, then opting for a Q-Slice Z-buffer in the Hidden Line Options (fig 2).


https://image.ibb.co/eAU95v/fig_1.jpg
(fig 1)


https://image.ibb.co/iv1NQv/fig_2.jpg
(fig 2)


The problem lies within the fact that the Z-buffer does not work for curved surfaces. The closest I have come to obtaining a contour plot of the curved areas was was by selecting areas; selecting associated nodes; selecting associated elements; plotting von Mises. Unfortunately this provides a jagged and unclean result as seen in (fig 3).


https://image.ibb.co/bEZbkv/fig_3.jpg
(fig 3)


Is it possible to get a smooth result as seen in (fig 2) while also incorporating curved areas / the channels?

Thank you in advance!
Paul

I'm sorry for bumping my old thread, but, any help guys..? Thanks!

Which software are you using, CFX? You would be getting smooth surface contours at least with Fluent just by plotting a contour on the selected face. I haven't used CFD-Post for a while, but I would say that it would be possible also there.

Maybe give CFD-Post a go? Or read the case and data files into Fluent.