Visualizing the Coolant Flow and Battery Temperature Distribution

You create a scalar scene to display the pressure and velocity within the cooling channel, and a scalar scene to display the temperature of the battery components.

To visualize the coolant flow:
  1. Create a scene to display velocity and pressure in the cooling channel.
    1. Right-click the Scenes node and select New > Scalar.
    2. Rename the Scenes > Scalar Scene 1 node to Pressure and Velocity.
  2. To toggle-off the outline visibility, double-click the Pressure and Velocity > Outline 1 node.
    The Outline 1 node should now appear grayed-out.
  3. Set up the scalar displayer to display the pressure throughout the cooling channel.
    1. Rename the Pressure and Velocity > Scalar 1 node to Pressure.
    2. Expand the Pressure node and set the following properties:
      Node Property Setting
      Pressure Opacity 0.5
      Parts Parts Regions > Coolant
      Scalar Field Function Pressure
      Color Bar Color Map grayscale
  4. Create the streamline part.
    1. Right-click the Derived Parts node and select New > Streamline.
    2. In the Create Streamline in-place dialog, set the following:
      Property Setting
      Input Parts Regions > Coolant
      Seed Parts Regions > Coolant > Boundaries > Coolant.Inlet
    3. Click Create, then click Close.
    4. Select the Streamline > 2nd Order Integrator node and set Maximum Propagation to 10.0.
  5. Set the streamline displayer to show the velocity throughout the cooling channel.
    1. Rename the Pressure and Velocity > Streamline Stream 1 node to Velocity.
    2. Set the following properties:
      Node Property Setting
      Velocity Width 4.0E-4


      Parts      		 Parts Streamline


      Scalar Field      		 Function Velocity > Magnitude
  6. Adjust the geometry to view the cooling channel from above.
    1. Click the (Save-Restore-Select Views) icon and set the Projection Mode to Parallel.
    2. Click the (Save-Restore-Select Views) icon and set Views to -Z > Up +X .
    3. Click the (Save-Restore-Select Views) icon and select Store Current View.
Create a scene to display temperature on the battery components.
  1. Right-click the Scenes node and select New > Scalar.
  2. Rename the Scenes > Scalar Scene 1 node to Temperature.
  3. To toggle-off the outline visibility, double-click the Temperature > Outline 1 node.
    The Outline 1 node should now appear grayed-out.
  4. Create two simple transforms to display the battery components separately from each-other in the Temperature scene.
    1. Right-click the Tools > Transforms node and select New Graphics Transform > Simple Transform.
    2. Select the Transforms > Simple Transform 1 node and set Translation to [0.25, 0.0, 0.0] m, m, m.
    3. Repeat this process to create a second transform and for Simple Transform 2 set Translation to [0.0, 0.3, -0.1] m, m, m.
  5. Right-click the Scenes > Temperature node and select New Displayer > Scalar. Repeat this process once more.
    There should now be a total of three scalar displayer nodes under the Temperature node.
  6. Rename the scalar displayer nodes as follows:
    Scalar 1 T Cells
    Scalar 2 T Coolant
    Scalar 3 T Plate
  7. Set up the scalar displayers.
    1. Expand the T Cells, T Coolant, and T Plate nodes.
    2. Set the following properties:
      NoteWhen several nodes require identical property settings, you can multi-select the relevant nodes and define the settings in the Multiple Objects - Properties window.
      Node Properties Settings
      T Cells Displayer T Coolant Displayer T Plate Displayer
      [Displayer] Transform Identity Simple Transform 1 Simple Transform 2


      Parts      		 Parts Select all 16 cells: Parts > Cell (1x1)…Cell (8x2) Region > Coolant Parts > Plate


      Scalar Field      		 Function Temperature
      Auto Range Off
      Clip Off
      Units C
      Min 20.0 C
      Max 45.0 C


      Color Bar      		 Color Map blue-yellow-red
      Visible Activated Deactivated
  8. Save the simulation.