Reporting and Monitoring with Plots

In this case, a report and plot are used for monitoring the irradiation at one of the interfaces between the glass panels and surrounding air.

Simcenter STAR-CCM+ can dynamically monitor virtually any quantity while the solution develops. The process involves setting up a report which defines the quantity of interest and the region parts that are monitored. A monitor is then defined based on the report, which controls the update frequency and normalization characteristics. Finally, a graph plot can then be created from the monitor.

This process starts with the report definition.
  1. Create a Surface Average report.
  2. Rename the report to Irradiation1.
  3. Select the Irradiation1 node and set the following properties:
    Property Setting
    Scalar Field Function Radiation > Boundary Irradiation
    Parts Fluid:bottom-solid1 [Interface 2]
    The reason for selecting the bottom-solid1 [Interface 2] boundary instead of the bottom-solid1 boundary is that after initialization, the in-place interface conditions supersede the conditions of the original wall boundary. Therefore, any values you wish to extract from boundaries on region interfaces must always be from the in-place boundary interfaces.
The setup for the report is now complete, and a monitor and plot can be made from that report.
  1. Create a monitor and a plot for the report.
  2. Open the plot display.

    A new plot display that is called Irradiation1 Monitor Plot appears in the Graphics window.

    This display is automatically updated with boundary irradiation data when the run starts.

Create three more reports in the same way as described above.
  1. Create a Surface Average report.
  2. Rename the report to HeatFlux1.
  3. Select the HeatFlux1 node and set the following properties:
    Property Setting
    Scalar Field Function Boundary Heat Flux
    Parts Fluid:top
  4. Create a Maximum report.
  5. Rename the report to MaxTempFluid1.
  6. Select the MaxTempFluid1 node and set the following properties:
    Property Setting
    Scalar Field Function Temperature
    Parts Fluid
  7. Create another Maximum report.
  8. Rename the report to MaxTempSolid1.
  9. Select the MaxTempSolid1 node and set the following properties:
    Property Setting
    Scalar Field Function Temperature
    Parts Solid
  10. Create monitors and plots for the reports:
    1. Select the MaxTempSolid1 and MaxTempFluid1 nodes.
    2. Create monitors and plots for them.
    3. In the Create Plot From Reports dialog, select Single Plot.
  11. Open the Reports Plot plot.
    This completes the pre-processing setup for the case.
  12. Save the simulation.