Animating the Results

You use the exported images of volume fraction of oil to create an animation. This animation allows you to verify the distribution of oil around the domain, and visualize the large scale interface as the gears rotate.

To animate the volume fraction of oil:
In the Visualizing and Initializing the Volume Fraction of Oil section, you instructed Simcenter STAR-CCM+ to save the volume fraction of oil profile every 5 time-steps. The resulting series of .png files can be used to produce an animation using an external software of your choice. The following screenshot shows the results after the physical runtime of 0.2 s. Regions of oil splashing within the pump, as well as stratified flow, and dispersed bubbles are all present. The interface is captured with the large time-step used, demonstrating the capability of MMP-LSI for these types of simulations.