Use gnuplot to plot graph of friction_coefficient for T3A Flat Plate case in OpenFOAM
Posted February 12, 2019 at 22:29 by purnp2
Hello,
I am new to OF and gnuplot. I am working on the T3A flat plate case in tutorials of OpenFOAM. I was struggling a lot to plot graph of friction coefficient from simulation and experimental data using the default plot_file (creatGraphs.plt) provided with the tutorial. I looked on the internet for a solution but remained unsuccessful. So, after trying for some time, I got the graph correct so I decided to share it here for use of anyone else.
The trick is we have to edit the default plot file provided in the case file.
This is how the default file looks like:
After editing it, it should look like the following:
Please notice the following changes:
a. the lines need to be commented out.
2. the back-slash (\) sign deleted before all dollar-sign ($) which is used to represent a column in a file used by gnuplot for plotting the graph.
3. full path of data files is added instead of a path to the data file from the current working directory.
I am new to OF and gnuplot. I am working on the T3A flat plate case in tutorials of OpenFOAM. I was struggling a lot to plot graph of friction coefficient from simulation and experimental data using the default plot_file (creatGraphs.plt) provided with the tutorial. I looked on the internet for a solution but remained unsuccessful. So, after trying for some time, I got the graph correct so I decided to share it here for use of anyone else.
The trick is we have to edit the default plot file provided in the case file.
This is how the default file looks like:Code:
#!/bin/sh
cd ${0%/*} || exit 1 # Run from this directory
# Test if gnuplot exists on the system
command -v gnuplot >/dev/null 2>&1 || {
echo "gnuplot not found - skipping graph creation" 1>&2
exit 1
}
gnuplot<<GNUPLOT
set term post enhanced color solid linewidth 2.0 20
set out "graphs.eps"
set encoding utf8
set termoption dash
set style increment user
set style line 1 lt 1 linecolor rgb "blue" linewidth 1.5
set style line 11 lt 2 linecolor rgb "black" linewidth 1.5
time = system("foamListTimes -case .. -latestTime")
set xlabel "x"
set ylabel "u'"
set title "T3A - Flat Plate - turbulent intensity"
plot [:1.5][:0.05] \
"../postProcessing/kGraph/".time."/line_k.xy" \
u (\$1-0.04):(1./5.4*sqrt(2./3.*\$2))title "kOmegaSSTLM" w l ls 1, \
"exptData/T3A.dat" u (\$1/1000):(\$3/100) title "Exp T3A" w p ls 11
set xlabel "Re_x"
set ylabel "c_f"
set title "T3A - Flat Plate - C_f"
plot [:6e+5][0:0.01] \
"../postProcessing/wallShearStressGraph/".time."/line_wallShearStress.xy" \
u ((\$1-0.04)*5.4/1.5e-05):(-\$2/0.5/5.4**2) title "kOmegaSSTLM" w l, \
"exptData/T3A.dat" u (\$1/1000*5.4/1.51e-05):2 title "Exp" w p ls 11
GNUPLOT
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Code:
# #!/bin/sh
# cd ${0%/*} || exit 1 # Run from this directory
# # Test if gnuplot exists on the system
# command -v gnuplot >/dev/null 2>&1 || {
# echo "gnuplot not found - skipping graph creation" 1>&2
# exit 1
# }
# gnuplot<<GNUPLOT
set term post enhanced color solid linewidth 2.0 20
set out "graphs2.eps"
set encoding utf8
set termoption dash
set style increment user
set style line 1 lt 1 linecolor rgb "blue" linewidth 1.5
set style line 11 lt 2 linecolor rgb "black" linewidth 1.5
time = system("foamListTimes -case .. -latestTime")
# set xlabel "x"
# set ylabel "u'"
# set title "T3A - Flat Plate - turbulent intensity"
# plot [:1.5][:0.05] \
# "../postProcessing/kGraph/".time."/line_k.xy" \
# u (\$1-0.04):(1./5.4*sqrt(2./3.*\$2))title "kOmegaSSTLM" w l ls 1, \
# "exptData/T3A.dat" u (\$1/1000):(\$3/100) title "Exp T3A" w p ls 11
set xlabel "Re_x"
set ylabel "c_f"
set title "T3A - Flat Plate - C_f"
plot [:6e+5][0:0.01] \
"/home/purnp2/OpenFOAM/purnp2-v1812/run/T3A/postProcessing/wallShearStressGraph/269/line_wallShearStress.xy" \
u (($1-0.04)*5.4/1.5e-05):(-$2/0.5/5.4**2) title "kOmegaSSTLM" w l, \
"/home/purnp2/OpenFOAM/purnp2-v1812/run/T3A/validation/exptData/T3A.dat" u ($1/1000*5.4/1.51e-05):2 title "Exp" w p ls 11
# GNUPLOT
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
a. the lines need to be commented out.
2. the back-slash (\) sign deleted before all dollar-sign ($) which is used to represent a column in a file used by gnuplot for plotting the graph.
3. full path of data files is added instead of a path to the data file from the current working directory.
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